The Dollar Is Headed For Collapse – Nearly 600 Other Failed Paper Currencies – For centuries, the British Pound was the world’s reserve currency, because it was consider to be the strongest of all currencies. That is no longer the case; shortly after World War II economically devastated the British Empire, the pound retreated as the world’s reserve currency and the U.S. dollar took its place.
Can You Really Summon A Self-Parking Car With Your Smart Watch? Leave it to your car to fight for that prized parking space – The hours we spend over a lifetime searching for that elusive free parking space are a complete waste of time and energy, and those big brains at BMW are saying enough is enough. …
The most powerful supercomputers in the world – and what they do? We live in the computer age so it’s no surprise that a nation’s international importance is often measured on the number and the size of supercomputers it runs. After three wins in a row, it was no surprise that this supercomputer, was hailed once again as the world’s most powerful system…
Not everyone gets a holiday bonus, but for those that do it’s definitely a special feeling, especially when that bonus is unexpected. You can treat it as an extension of your salary for all of your hard work, or look at as “hey, free money!” Found money is the best and what you do with it can be exciting. There are so many ways to blow your holiday bonus…
With its 2013 revenue of close to $60 billion and with an average of 40,000 search queries being conducted on its site each second, Google is undeniably a wildly successful company. However, like all business giants…
Oil to take down the S&P 500 — but there's still no better time to invest in energy Marketwatch: By Barbara Kollmeyer Invest in energy. Now. The heck you say. But as we plumb the depths of under-$60-a-barrel oil, that chorus is rising. Take Stephen Schwarzman, the chairman of Blackstone, who said yesterday there’s no better time to invest in energy than now. Simply, lots of people out there have