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Quick Tech, Smart Minds
Quick Tech, Smart Minds
Find every daily tech fact we’ve shared, all in one place.
Typing speed increased because of instant messaging.
Facial recognition works even with partial faces.
CAPTCHA exists mainly to stop bots, not humans.
Java was first named Oak before its public release.
Recommendation systems decide what you watch next.
The first domain ever registered was symbolics.com.
Voice assistants learn user’s accents over time.
Data is often called the “new oil” of the digital world.
Ctrl + C / Ctrl + V became standard only in the 1980s.
Smart cities rely heavily on real-time data sensors.
A single typo can crash an entire system.
Metadata can reveal more than the actual message content.
Most USB cables are charge-only, not data-capable.
Undersea cables carry over 95% of global internet data.
Incognito mode doesn’t make you invisible online.
Modern chips are built with billions of transistors.
Heat is the biggest enemy of electronic devices.
Most of the internet is used by bots, not humans.
Every time you delete a file, it’s usually not really gone.
A single large data center can use town-level electricity.
The first hard drive could store only 5 MB, weighed over a ton.
Every emoji you send is actually a tiny piece of coded data.
Bluetooth is named after a 10th-century Viking king.
The first documented computer bug was an actual moth!
A pixel can change color thousands of times per second.
The first computer mouse was made of wood!
The first webcam was created to monitor a coffee pot!
Your phone’s vibration is created by a tiny spinning motor inside.
QR codes date back to 1994, before smartphones existed.
Wi-Fi doesn’t stand for anything — it’s a brand name.
The first website ever created is still online and accessible today.
5G can be up to 100× faster than 4G, based on band, coverage.
The world sends more than 300 billion emails everyday.
Every minute, around 500 hours of video are uploaded to YouTube.
Dark mode can save up to 50% battery on OLED screens.