Chai Companion - Top Stories from Online
"Crowd-Funding is More Like Crowd-Frauding"
"The love of investing in next Facebook and being rich brings all these suckers to investing in these deals. You can always find some jewels, but most of the time these investors will lose their money because most of these startup future billionaires will run away with their money or they will never succeed."
Saudi SuperComputer Enters Top 10 List
"A petaflop is equal to about one quadrillion calculations per second. One estimate suggests it would take a human about 32,000,000 years to complete the same task.
The machine, based in Thuwal, Saudi Arabia is being used for research projects modelling turbulence in engines, atmospheric dynamics, and renewable energy grids."
College Won't Teach You This
"If traditional schooling can’t teach skills that are in demand and necessary in the workplace, then what can? Working in the field. Getting a full-time job, or part-time job, and dedicating yourself to becoming excellent at what you do will teach you more than a single college class ever could."
Meet Google's 'EddyStone'
"Bluetooth beacons are part of the Internet of Things (IoT) trend. They're little transmitters (usually battery powered) that send out information about a specific point of interest, and that info is then passively picked up by a smartphone or tablet in range of the transmitter. A beacon-equipped bus stop could send out transit times, stores could send promotions to the customers currently in the store, or a museum could send people information about the exhibit they're standing in front of."
Bitcoin: Decentralized Virtual Currency
Everything you need to know about Bitcoins.
The Homeless Man Who Graduated from Harvard Law
"This homeless man — who totes his belongings in white plastic bags, haunts the intersection of 17th and I streets NW and sometimes sleeps at a church — studied law alongside U.S. Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. and former Wisconsin senator Russ Feingold. All of them graduated from Harvard in 1979."
