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Other private space firms aren’t far behind either. Expect to see further testing in 2016 of Virgin Galactic’s SpaceShipTwo, XCOR Aerospace’s Lynx spaceplane, Blue Origin’s interestingly shaped New Shepherd, Boeing’s CST-100 capsule, and Sierra Nevada Corporation’s Dream Chaser microshuttle. Oh, and look out for SETI starting to ramp up its activities following its massive funding boost in 2015, and a vast increase in the number of exoplanets we’ve discovered. The total stood at 2,041 at the end of 2015. Universe Today’s David Dickinson reckons we’ll be at 10,000 by the end of 2016.

"This year was supposed to have been the end of the lifespan of the International Space Station, but in 2010 the five space agencies that govern it agreed to extend the mission until the early 2020s." This won’t just be a year of beginnings, of course. We’ll also lose a few long-serving spacecraft in impressive, explosive or actually rather dull circumstances. This year was originally supposed to have been the end of the lifespan of the International Space Station, but in 2010 the five space agencies that govern it agreed to extend the mission until the early 2020s. Thanks to its modular nature, it’s possible to replace individual chunks as they age, so it could still live on for many decades – making it mankind’s very own Spaceship of Theseus.

In June, the Dawn probe is expected to run out of hydrazine fuel and lose contact with Earth. But that orbit is fairly stable, so it should remain as an artificial satellite of the dwarf planet Ceres for decades, if not centuries. Then, on 30 September, the European Space Agency’s Rosetta probe will suffer a slow-motion crash landing onto the surface of the Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko, which it currently orbits.

Finally, starting late in the year, NASA’s Cassini probe will be commanded to use its remaining fuel to perform a series of dangerous, acrobatic orbits that will eventually end in a deliberate plunge into Saturn’s thick atmosphere in 2017. There’s already a conspiracy theory that the incredibly high pressure inside Saturn will detonate Cassini like a nuclear bomb, triggering fusion and turning the gas giant into a second sun. There’s very little scientific basis for those claims, but hey, you never know. My advice would be to enjoy 2016’s lineup of space exploration before we’re all burnt to a crisp.

All of the Chromebooks we’ve seen to date have been lightweight ultraportable models with screens measuring 13in or smaller. Acer has taken a different tack with its latest offering: the Chromebook 15 C910 is the first 15in Chrome OS laptop. This might sound bizarre at first, but it makes sense given the continuing popularity of 15in laptops. Many people simply prefer the bigger screen size as it makes everything easier to see. Although the Chromebook 15 is chubbier and heavier than its smaller cousins as a result – weighing in at 2.2kg – this isn’t a huge problem if, like most 15in laptops, it’ll spend most of its time in the home or office.However, The Chromebook 15 does have the stamina for working away from a wall socket. When used for simple tasks in relatively undemanding web apps such as Google Docs, Google Play Music, Wordpress and Pixlr, it lasted 9hrs 42mins. Although it’s somewhat disappointing that this isn’t any longer than lighter, thinner Chromebooks with smaller batteries, it’s still lengthy and comes close to matching Acer’s claims.

And it's also surprisingly attractive for such a cheap laptop, with a pleasing crosshatch pattern on the lid and underside. Unfortunately, the build is so-so, with a sturdy base, but a lid that flexes easily under pressure.Given the low price, we weren’t expecting much from the 15in screen. It isn't especially bright, but contrast and colour accuracy are reasonably good for a budget laptop display. What isn't so good is the resolution, which at 1,366 x 768 makes text looks fuzzy and unattractive. A 1,440 x 900 or 1,600 x 900 resolution screen would make better use of such a large screen, especially when multi-tasking, but sadly such panels are unheard of in cheap laptops.While the keyboard is large and spacious, the keys felt a little spongy for my liking. There's enough feedback and travel for quick, accurate and comfortable typing, though, and I had no complaints about the touchpad, which puts the touchpads on comparably priced Windows laptops to shame. It’s large with accurate tracking, clicky buttons built into the pad itself and basic but smooth, responsive gestures such as two-fingered scrolling and two-fingered tapping to show contextual menus.

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The laptop as a whole is responsive, too. Apart from some ARM-based Chromebooks, we’ve rarely seen any Chrome OS computer struggle with general web rendering, running web apps or providing a smooth and responsive interface. The Chromebook 15 is no exception to this, thanks to its Broadwell-derived dual-core 1.5GHz Intel Celeron 3205U processor and 4GB of RAM. If nothing else, that much memory ensures your tabs won’t need to be reloaded very often.Storage isn't quite as impressive. Our review unit came with 32GB of storage, but only the 16GB version is widely available. This isn’t a problem if you’ve fully bought into Chrome OS’ vision of totally cloud-based computing, but it’s inconvenient if you need to ensure you have access to lots of video files and documents when you’re offline. You can, of course, use external storage instead: the Chromebook 15 has a USB 3 and a USB 2 port alongside its SD card slot.

If you’ve been tempted by the simplicity and hassle-free nature of Chrome OS, but need or want a bigger screen, the Acer Chromebook 15 is for you. I do wish Acer had been more ambitious, opting for a brighter, higher quality, higher resolution panel, even if this had pushed up the price, rather than retreading old ground and taking the easy way out. However, it gets nothing horribly wrong and the price is very reasonable indeed.As Apple lives to see its 40th birthday, what better time is there to remember the technology which it left by the wayside. The company has never been averse to doing away with technology that's gone past its sell-by date – and often it's been brave enough to make those changes long before the other big-name manufacturers dared to do the same. A case in point: rumours that the next iPhone will finally do away with the analogue headphone jack are so persistent that they might even be true. Users seem unimpressed at the prospect of having to switch to wireless or Lightning headphones or pay £25 for a fiddly adaptor. Tsk, Luddites.

The analogue jack dates back to 1878, though, so it might just possibly be time to move on. Apple, especially under Steve Jobs, has a proud history of being first to ditch tech that’s passed its prime – regardless of the howls of “but I was using that!” from industry partners, customers and other irrelevant recalcitrants.Used both to load software from and to save files to, the removable floppy disk was the sole storage medium of early PCs, and survived into the age of hard disks as a handy file transfer and archive medium.And there it stayed until Steve Jobs returned to Apple in 1997 and launched the dramatically streamlined iMac. Aimed at the internet and entertainment, it had a DVD tray, but nowhere to put floppies. What the what?It turned out this really was the future and, when Wi-Fi came along a year later, we missed removable disks even less. A floppy wouldn’t be a lot of use now anyway, being too small to store a single image from your phone camera.

For years, printers connected to PCs via the “Centronics” interface. Back then, an interface was often called a “bus” because the plug was roughly as big as one of those red things that drive around London.If you’ve ever watched a 1980s movie and giggled at a skyscraper labelled “Wang”, credit goes to computer company founder Dr An Wang. In 1970, he had 20,000 spare ribbon cables lying around, so he based the interface for the Centronics Model 101 printer on their specification.Naturally, we were still using the same pile of junk 28 years later when Steve Jobs decided the iMac didn’t need it.Replacing all the existing ports with USB, he not only marked out the new computer as a groundbreaker, but also managed to make USB, invented by a group including Intel and Microsoft, look like Apple’s idea.

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