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Google searches hit the billions every month.
There are over 35 billion Google searches each month.
In May 2019, the top three most Googled words were “Facebook” at 233 million searches, “youtube” with 194 million searches, and “amazon” with 103 million searches.
There’s a name for when you feel your phone vibrate… but it doesn’t.
This is my favorite tech fact on this list!
“Phantom Vibration Syndrome” is the name for when someone thinks their phone is vibrating, but it isn’t.
Research suggests the cause for this is someone being over-involved with their phone.
Smoking will void your Apple warranty.
Apple has a “smoking” ban on their computers, meaning if you smoke while using any Apple computer, the warranty becomes void.
Technology is now influencing baby names.
In 2012, at least six girls were named Apple, 49 boys were named Mac, and at least 17 girls were named Siri.
However, the number of babies named Alexa in the U.S has dropped from 6,050 in 2015 (the year Amazon’s Alexa became available) to 3,053 in 2018.
Alexa was the 32nd most popular name for girls born in 2015 but dropped to 90th place in 2018.
Blind people can use cell phones.
There is special Braille technology and accessories for blind people to use cell phones.
It uses special pins that go up and down so the user can touch and read the info.
Google’s first tweet was gibberish.
To a normal human, Google’s first-ever tweet on Twitter was nonsense!
It reads, “I’m 01100110 01100101 01100101 01101100 01101001 01101110 01100111 00100000 01101100 01110101 01100011 01101011 01111001 00001010”.
Translated from binary to English, this tweet says “I’m feeling lucky.”
The first cell phone call was in New York City.
In 1973, the first-ever mobile phone call was made by Martin Cooper, an employee of Motorola, made from the streets of New York City.
It wasn’t until 19 years later when Neil Papworth sent the first SMS message, which brings us to our next tech fact:
542!! Too close to 550!
#HYPE UP! HYPE UP!!!
#FRIDAY IS NEAR!! HYPE UP!!!
The first commercial text message was sent in 1992.
On December 3, 1992, a software architect, Sema Group, used a computer to text “Merry Christmas” to a Vodafone employee who was using an Orbitel 901 handset.
These days, over six billion texts are sent per day!
So it didn’t get to 555 I see
Over 6,000 new computer viruses are created and released every month.
This number has drastically risen since 1990, at which point there were only 50 known computer viruses.
Today, 90% of emails contain some form of malware and most people don’t know about it.
There are more likes than photos on Facebook.
Every day, over 300 million photos are uploaded to Facebook, while 800 million likes are given out per day.
By contrast, there are only 175 million “love” reactions each day.
trying to hit 555! heh
HYPE UP! HYPE UP!!!
Resource upgrades
Resource upgrades would be pretty cool, but I can't seem to win those giveaways
Agree
I thought it would easily cross 600 by this time
Those are very rare tbh
MOARRRRRRRRR
More is what we want
You want ASUS TUF A15
It's very close to page #550
555!!
I can only get account credit anyway. What will I do with that much credit
Magical number 555 is our target