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Question Answer Year
What is the median U.S. fixed broadband download speed, in Mbps? 250 Mbps 2024
How many petaflops does the fastest supercomputer run at? 1,700 petaflops 2024
How many charge cycles does a smartphone battery last? 500 cycles 2024
How many minutes does a fast charger take to charge an EV to 80%? 30 minutes 2024
How many active Android devices are there worldwide? 3,000,000,000 devices 2023
How many active satellites are orbiting Earth? 11,000 satellites 2025
How many vehicles did Tesla deliver in a year? 1,790,000 vehicles 2024
How many devices are connected to the internet? 18,000,000,000 devices 2024
How many electric cars are sold worldwide each year? 17,000,000 cars 2024
How many emails does the average office worker receive per day? 121 emails 2023
How many hours does a modern laptop battery last? 10 hours 2024
How many iPhones has Apple sold in total? 2,300,000,000 iPhones 2023
How many words per minute does an average person type? 40 words per minute 2023
How many lines of code does Google’s codebase have? 2,000,000,000 lines 2016
How many lines of code are in the Linux kernel? 40,000,000 lines 2024
How many messages are sent on WhatsApp each day? 100,000,000,000 messages 2023
How many miles of undersea internet cable are there? 870,000 miles 2024
How many nanometres is the most advanced chip manufacturing process? 3 nanometres 2024
How many parameters does GPT-3 have? 175,000,000,000 parameters 2020
How many credentials are exposed in data breaches each year? 8,000,000,000 credentials 2024
How many people use WhatsApp? 2,800,000,000 users 2024
How many people work at Apple? 164,000 employees 2024
How many people work at Google’s parent company Alphabet? 180,000 employees 2024
How many photos are taken worldwide each year? 1,900,000,000,000 photos 2024
How many photos and videos are posted to Instagram each day? 95,000,000 posts 2023
How many Starlink satellites are in orbit? 6,500 satellites 2024
How many smartphones are sold worldwide each year? 1,200,000,000 smartphones 2024
How many smartphones are in use worldwide? 7,200,000,000 smartphones 2024
How many times a day does the average person check their phone? 96 times 2023
How many transactions does Visa process each day? 750,000,000 transactions 2024
How many transistors are in an Apple M4 chip? 28,000,000,000 transistors 2024
How many charging cables does the average household own? 11 cables 2021
How many edits are made to Wikipedia each day? 350,000 edits 2024
How many exabytes of data are created worldwide each day? 400 exabytes 2024
How much did the first commercial mobile phone cost? $3,995 1983
How much does a SpaceX Falcon 9 launch cost? $67,000,000 2024
How much does it cost to train a frontier AI model? $100,000,000 2024
How much electricity do data centers use worldwide each year, in terawatt-hours? 415 terawatt-hours 2024
How much electricity does Bitcoin use each year, in terawatt-hours? 150 terawatt-hours 2024
How many times more powerful is a modern phone than the Apollo 11 computer? 100,000 times 2024
How many megabytes did the first commercial hard drive hold? 5 megabytes 1956

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