Wired UK - 11.2019

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The average time a Koala spends asleep each day

Proportion of Earth’s oxygen that is produced by the Amazon

rainforest. In 2018 alone, 7,900km^2 of forest was destroyed

The number of women who reported that

they had experienced discrimination

while working in the European technology

sector. In the UK and Ireland, 50 per cent

of respondents said they’d experienced it

Capacity of the ExaDrive DC100, the world’s largest 3.5-inch

SSD hard drive, revealed in 2018 and aimed at data centres

Percentage of the world’s population that live in urban areas.

This figure is expected to increase to 68 per cent by 2050

The percentage of internet traffic predicted to be video

by 2020 (that’s up from 75 per cent in 2017). Streaming

live video is expected to account for 17 per cent of that

Number of people who use the internet today, about 40

per cent of the world’s population. By 2030, it will be 7.5bn

The highest amount of TV shows and movies watched

in a single day on Netflix. It has 139 million subscribers

Potential configurations of a standard Rubik’s Cube –

but they can always be solved in no more than 20 moves

The year Nintendo was founded by Fusajiro Yamauchi,

on September 23, initially as a playing-card company

The year the first spam email was sent by Gary Thuerk

to several hundred users on ARPANET (the Advanced

Research Projects Agency Network) to drum up interest

for a presentation on the DECSYSTEM-20 computer

ILLUSTRATION: GIACOMO GAMBINERI. WORDS: WILL BEDINGFIELD. SOURCES: STATEOFEUROPEANTECH.COM; SAVETHEKOALA.COM; RAIN-TREE.COM; ORLEANSMARKETING.COM; TEMPLETONS.COM; ZDNET.COM; TELEGRAPH.CO.UK; CNBC.COM; ALLWORK.SPACE

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The additional amount of time it takes a seagull to approach

your food if you make and hold eye contact (so eat quickly)

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