12 FUN TECH FACTS YOU MAY NOT KNOW


1. Every month, about 6,000 new computer viruses are developed and published. 90 percent of emails are infected with malware!

2. Firefox's logo isn't a fox... It's a red panda, of course!

3. Samsung is 38 years and 1 month older than Apple.

4.A petabyte (PB) is equal to 1024 megabytes (TB). To put this in perspective, a 50 terabyte hard disk could store all of humanity's written works in all languages from the dawn of recorded history.

5. Alexa is always listening to what you're saying. To enhance the Alexa experience, Alexa saves all of your conversation history on the cloud.

6. People read 10 percent slower on a screen than they do on paper.

7.Doug Engelbart created the first computer mouse in 1964. It had a rectangular shape and was constructed of wood!

8. Out of every 12 million spam emails sent, just one receives a response.

9. Surgeons who spent more than three hours per week playing video games as a child make 37 percent fewer mistakes and have a 42 percent higher completion rate while conducting laparoscopic surgery and suturing.

10.The internet speed at NASA is 91 gigabits per second.

11. Carrier pigeons were quicker than the internet until 2010.

12. The first computer virus was created in 1971. It was created as an experiment to observe how it propagated across computers and was given the name Creeper. “I'm the creeper, catch me if you can!” said the statement on the malware.

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