Factualities for July 3, 2019

July 3, 2019

The rush toward the end of a numerically thrilling year is upon us. Some of the rock solid, outstanding numbers the DarkCyber team noted and believed by golly. Statistics 101 has not failed the productive and creative thinkers providing us real factualities, particularly some interesting pairs from different research wizards.

$1. Amount DoorDash pays for a trip. Source: Forbes

7. Number of years hackers have been stealing data from global cell networks. Source: TechDirt

11. The percentage of enterprise search users which find the technology “effective.” Source: CMSWire (Content management? What’s that?)

11. Number of steps required to reset a GE “smart” light bulb. Source: General Electric

20. The percent of IBM revenue which comes from “Asia.” Source: SCMP

22. The number of megatons (a megaton is equal to 1,000,000 tons) of carbon dioxide emissions produced by “Bitcoin”. Source: Eurekalert

22. The number of third party companies which provide technology to create dark patterns (that is, ways to trick site visitors) and be funneled to deceptive messages. Source: Princeton University

46. The percentage of those in a global study prefer a physical store. Source: Computer Weekly

46. The percentage of US adults who never use voice assistants. Source: Ecommerce Daily News

48.96. The quite precise percentage of Google search searches which ended with zero clicks. [ DarkCyber question: Does this mean the results were irrelevant?] Source: Sparktoo

66. Percent of those in a US sample want social networks to police offensive content. 69 percent have little or no confidence that social networks can correctly identify such content. Note that a leading legal eagle believe that he could spot offensive content when he could see it. Ah, the benefits of a legal education versus engineering expertise.

69. Number of police agencies using the zapping product once known as Taser. Source: New York Times

70. The percentage of unicorns (startups worth more than $1 billion) which are actually old products. Source: SaaSTR

110. The decibels produced by Dyson and Xcelerator hair and hand driers manufactured by these firms. Source: CBC

300. The percentage increase in the number of US taxi drivers since 2008.

300. The percentage increase in environmental “damage” jet contrails will do by 2050. Source: Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics

15,000. Number of users a for fee email service has. $33 million. The amount the company raised in venture capital. Source: New York Times

50,000. A nice round number reporting the number of plastic particles that you, gentle reader, consume each year. Source: The Guardian

432,000. Another nice round number representing the number of Macbook laptops recalled by Apple. Source: CBS News

$600,000. The amount a Florida city paid cyber criminals to regain access to its computer systems. Source: AP

11 million. The exact number of fake business listings in Google’s business listings. Source: Wall Street Journal

12.9 billion. The size of the threat intelligence market in 2023 or 48 months, whichever arrives first. Source: WAtech

Stephen E Arnold, July 3, 2019

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

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Stephen E. Arnold monitors search, content processing, text mining and related topics from his high-tech nerve center in rural Kentucky. He tries to winnow the goose feathers from the giblets. He works with colleagues worldwide to make this Web log useful to those who want to go "beyond search". Contact him at sa [at] arnoldit.com. His Web site with additional information about search is arnoldit.com.