7:20 PM
Your friends on Facebook can determine if you get approved for a loan--one financial company has found that there is a link between creditworthiness and social connections, so if you are Facebook friends with someone who was late paying back a loan then your credit score is docked. If you frequently interact with that delinquent person, you are then considered a credit risk:
http://money.cnn.com/2013/08/26/technology/social/facebook-credit-score/index.html
The sun's magnetic field is about to change polarity, something that happens every 11 or so years. The ripples of the field's polarity will go all the way out to the Voyager probes on the edge of the heliosphere:
http://www.asdnews.com/news-50768/The_Sun_s_Magnetic_Field_is_about_to_Flip.htm
Intel's chief architect for 11 years says that Moore's Law will end between 2020 and 2022. He says that Moore's law will end due to economics, not physics:
http://nextbigfuture.com/2013/08/moores-law-will-hit-economic-wall.html
Analysts estimate that manufacturing the Moto X phone in the US is costing Motorola about $4 to $5 per phone. Apple only pays $8 per iPhone manufactured in Asia while Motorola may be paying $12:
http://www.theverge.com/2013/8/28/4666542/moto-xs-made-in-america-claim-could-cost-5-per-phone
Woman in West Virginia came home from visiting her best friend in the hospital and discovered that a repo company took all of her things! Her living room furniture, her college and high school diplomas, her pictures, her teacher of the year award, everything! The repo company was told to remove everything from the house at a certain address, but they were giving the wrong city so that unlucky woman lost all of her things for nothing! When she started to straighten things out she discovered that all her things were taken to the dump and were lost forever...
http://www.wsaz.com/news/headlines/Woman-Loses-Everything-When-Company-Repossesses-Wrong-House-221393691.html
People are going to YouTube more than Amazon when doing research for products they are interested in buying:
http://www.adweek.com/videowatch/forget-amazon-youtube-where-shoppers-do-research-152068
http://money.cnn.com/2013/08/26/technology/social/facebook-credit-score/index.html
The sun's magnetic field is about to change polarity, something that happens every 11 or so years. The ripples of the field's polarity will go all the way out to the Voyager probes on the edge of the heliosphere:
http://www.asdnews.com/news-50768/The_Sun_s_Magnetic_Field_is_about_to_Flip.htm
Intel's chief architect for 11 years says that Moore's Law will end between 2020 and 2022. He says that Moore's law will end due to economics, not physics:
http://nextbigfuture.com/2013/08/moores-law-will-hit-economic-wall.html
Analysts estimate that manufacturing the Moto X phone in the US is costing Motorola about $4 to $5 per phone. Apple only pays $8 per iPhone manufactured in Asia while Motorola may be paying $12:
http://www.theverge.com/2013/8/28/4666542/moto-xs-made-in-america-claim-could-cost-5-per-phone
Woman in West Virginia came home from visiting her best friend in the hospital and discovered that a repo company took all of her things! Her living room furniture, her college and high school diplomas, her pictures, her teacher of the year award, everything! The repo company was told to remove everything from the house at a certain address, but they were giving the wrong city so that unlucky woman lost all of her things for nothing! When she started to straighten things out she discovered that all her things were taken to the dump and were lost forever...
http://www.wsaz.com/news/headlines/Woman-Loses-Everything-When-Company-Repossesses-Wrong-House-221393691.html
People are going to YouTube more than Amazon when doing research for products they are interested in buying:
http://www.adweek.com/videowatch/forget-amazon-youtube-where-shoppers-do-research-152068