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  1. According to Apple, everything a person says to Siri is anonymized and sent to Apple to be analyzed and is stored for up to two years.<\/li>\n
  2. In 2013, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg followed in the footsteps of Apple CEO Steve Jobs by making his annual salary $1<\/strong>.<\/li>\n
  3. Every hour of every day, 91 percent of all adults have their mobile phone within arm\u2019s reach. That’s less than two feet away.<\/li>\n
  4. In 2012, a French woman received a phone bill for $15 quadrillion dollars of cancellation fees. The company only admitted the error after offering her a payment plan twice.<\/li>\n
  5. In 1998, Sony had to recall 700,000 camcorders with night vision technology after they realized it could see through people\u2019s clothes.<\/li>\n
  6. There is a robot baby seal called “PARO” in Japan used for therapy by hospital patients or psychological treatment. It responds to human touch and voices.<\/li>\n
  7. Financial statements show that Google earns $20 billion a year from advertising. That’s more than CBS, NBC, ABC, and FOX combined.<\/li>\n
  8. The first computer built by Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak was done with spare parts acquired for free from their employers.<\/li>\n
  9. The baby diaper company, Huggies, created an application that alerts a parent when their baby pees by monitoring changes in diaper humidity.<\/li>\n
  10. On August 2, 1922, at the end of Alexander Graham Bell\u2019s funeral, the entire US telephone system was shut down for 1 minute to pay tribute to its inventor.<\/li>\n
  11. In Norway all prisoners have access to the internet in their cells as the government believes it is important to maintain a connection to the outside world.<\/li>\n
  12. By typing \u201cabout: robots\u201d into the Mozilla Firefox URL bar, it will load and show a message from our “future robotic overlords.”<\/li>\n
  13. According to a study done in early 2014, 1 in 9 US adults believed HTML is an STD. 1 in 5 believed blu-ray was actually a marine animal.<\/li>\n
  14. In 1999 it was discovered that every single Hotmail account could be accessed by using the password “Eh.”<\/li>\n
  15. Since 2012, almost all mobile phones in Japan were made waterproof because women liked to use their phone in the shower.<\/li>\n
  16. In 2011, it was discovered that 69% of children aged 2 to 5, that were born in the Western world, can use a computer mouse. Yet only 11% can tie their own shoes.<\/li>\n
  17. On average, 222 million tons of technology gadgets such as old computers are thrown out in the U.S. every year.<\/li>\n
  18. In 2003, Queen Elizabeth II knighted the father of the world wide web, Tim Berners-Lee, for his pioneering invention.<\/li>\n
  19. Until 2007, Facebook’s homepage featured a picture of Al Pacino covered in binary code. It was created by Facebook Co-founder Andrew McCollum.<\/li>\n
  20. When the iPhone was born in 2007, its camera suprisingly didn\u2019t even have flash, auto focus, optical zoom, or video recording. It could only take still photos.<\/li>\n
  21. On Facebook you are unable to block Mark Zuckerberg. After a 2010 viral campaign protesting Facebook’s privacy policies, a failsafe triggered causing this status.<\/li>\n
  22. Despite exporting $500 billion of electronic products in 2014, including all of Apple’s products, only 20% of China’s population own a personal computer.<\/li>\n
  23. Besides being some of the biggest names in the tech industry, HP, Google, Microsoft, and Apple share another commonality. They were all started in garages.<\/li>\n
  24. Most US cell phone carriers have developed a system in which you can text 9-1-1 for help. This will automatically take the location of the SMS and send help there.<\/li>\n
  25. According to Sophos, every day at least 600,000 Facebook accounts and 30,000 websites are attempted to be hacked.<\/li>\n
  26. Apple’s original logo was Isaac Newton sitting under an apple tree while reading a book. They then changed it to the famous bitten, rainbow colored apple.<\/li>\n
  27. Apple has a secret room in their California HQ where people open the packages of their products, trying to find what package elicits the best emotional responses.<\/li>\n
  28. In 2013, a Sophos survey found that the average technology user owns 2.9 devices, such as smartphones, tablets, and laptops.<\/li>\n
  29. In a 2010 study it was found that of all the active pages on the web, 37% were sites geared towards adult content.<\/li>\n
  30. The first YouTube video ever uploaded was by San Diego Zoo co-founder Jawed Karim on April 23, 2005 and was titled \u201cMe at the zoo.<\/li>\n
  31. A single Google search needs more computing power than it took to send Apollo 11 to the Moon. The Apollo computer was less equipped than a modern toaster.<\/li>\n
  32. In 1994, two Stanford University graduates founded \u201cJerry and David\u2019s Guide to the World Wide Web,\u201d which is now known as Yahoo!<\/li>\n
  33. In 2011, the United Nations declared that Internet access is a basic human right and disconnecting individuals from it is against international law.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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