Factualities for May 29, 2019

May 29, 2019

Numbers, particularly nice round ones, have been zipping around the interwebs in the last seven days. Here’s a tasty selection of some which caught our attention.

8. Number of people with whom a Google Duo user can chat simultaneously on one mobile phone screen. Source: Esquire

2,000. Number of Mannequin Challenge videos Google used to train its smart software. Source: Igyhaan

14. Number of years Google stored some customers’ passwords in plain text. Source: Next Web

3. Number of years to elapse before IBM commercializes quantum computing. Source: Interesting Engineering

$30 million. Palantir Technologies’ losses in 2018. Note: The company was founded in 2003. Source: Bloomberg

885 million. Number of customer records “exposed” online by a Fortune 500 insurance company named First American Financial. Source: Krebs on Security

71 percent. Percentage of student who would buy an Apple Mac computer if the students could afford the Apple product. Source: Tech Radar

50 percent. Percentage of businesses unable to handle cloud computing security. Source: IT Pro Portal

$425 million. How much money Google will not capture due to the Huawei ban. Source: Mr. Top Step

$2.5 billion. Dollar size of the cloud game market (aka online games) in 24 months. Source: IHS

120 minutes. The length of Microsoft’s E3 2019 press conference. Source: Game Rant

Stephen E Arnold, May 29, 2019

Written by Stephen E. Arnold · Filed Under Factualities, News, Statistics

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