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    Technology Facts

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    Modified & Updated: 28 Apr 2024

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    Our technology facts will tell you how inventions and innovations make our lives easier. Learn more about the pros and cons as well as the people behind these developments.

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    1. 01There are 3.8 billion internet users every day.
    2. 02On average, each person has 2 to 8 networked gadgets.
    3. 03Approximately 8 billion gadgets connect on the internet every day.
    4. 04The desktop internet usage is falling while the mobile internet is rising.
    5. 05The invention of the internet is credited to computer scientists Vinton Cerf and Bob Kahn.
    1. 01Close to 1 million websites are born every day.
    2. 02Google has 3.8 million searches every minute, and it’s growing.
    3. 03Internet privacy is becoming a big issue. Therefore, some choose to stay away from heavy social media.
    4. 04As the years go by, more and more job traditional jobs will disappear. Instead, robots are poised to replace human work.
    5. 05Computer programming is currently one of the fastest-growing professions in the technology industry.
    6. 06Every month, hackers release around 6,000 computer viruses.
    7. 07“Non-human” intervention creates around 50% of internet traffic.
    8. 08Hacking programs, spammers and malicious phishing takes 30% of the internet traffic.
    9. 09The Dvorak keyboard was designed to make typing much faster. However, the QWERTY keyboard became much more popular.
    10. 10Christopher Latham Sholes designed the arrangement of characters on a QWERTY keyboard.
    1. 0125% of mobile apps are gaming apps.
    2. 0224 hours of video is uploaded to YouTube every minute.
    3. 03Since the launch of the popular mobile game, Candy Crush, in 2012, players have spent a total of 73 billion hours (equivalent to 8.3 million years) playing this game.
    4. 04There are more than 200,000 robots working in the Amazon warehouse, together with hundreds and thousands of human workers.
    5. 05Bitcoin reached its highest price of $64,863 in April 2021.
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