Factualities for May 8, 2019

May 8, 2019

I marvel at the hard data produced by numerical wizards and wizardettes. Here’s a selection of facts which I absolutely, positively believe.

2X. The number of Huawei phones sold compared to the number of mobile phones Apple sold in the first quarter of 2019. Source: Thurrott

$5. The amount of money Amazon will pay you to place your first order via the Amazon mobile application. Source: Lifehacker

7. Number of pregnant Amazon workers allegedly fired for being with child. Source: CNet

10. Number of years in which Amazon will reach fully automated warehouses. Source: Digital Journal

10 percent. Number of Twitter users creating 80 percent of the service’s tweets. Source: Search Engine Journal

30 percent. The amount of the productivity and efficiency increase when an employee uses an enterprise search system is used. Source: Market Talk News

50 percent. The percentage of US college students who go hungry. Source: New York Times

$3,500. Cost of a Microsoft development kit for the HoloLens 2. Upon paying, one gets a “hat”. Source: The Inquirer

6,000. The number of languages in the world. Source via IBM: Medium

15,000. Number of sub domains GoDaddy removed for spammy activities. Source: Wired

50,000. Number of companies vulnerable to a security issue in SAP software. Source: Reuters

50,000. Number of vulnerable Bitcoin nodes. Source: The Next Web

277,000. Number of drones registered with the FAA. Note: There are an estimated 1.25 million personal drones in the US. Source: Engadget

1 million. The number of terrorist videos YouTube has “reviewed” in 2019. Source: CNet

137 million. Number of US adults suffering medical financial hardship in 2015, 2016, and 2017. Source: EurekAlet

250 million. Number of hours YouTubers watch each day. Source: Variety

$300 million. Amount of money invested in the Star Citizen video game which may never be completed. Source: Forbes

$356 million. Amount of digital money stolen from exchanges in the first 90 days of 2019. Source: The Next Web

968 million. The number of Playstation 4s Sony has shipped. Source: Neoseeker

2 billion. Number of monthly YouTube users. Source: Variety

4.9 billion. Number of deceased persons in the Facebook database by 2100. Source: Guardian

Stephen E Arnold, May 8, 2019

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

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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.