Wired UK – September 2019

THE WIRED

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EVERYTHING

Probability of facial

recognition tech used by

London’s Met Police

misidentifying members of

the public as criminals

Estimated percentage of

global carbon emissions

that digital technologies

will be responsible for by

2020 – double that of the

entire aviation industry.

This includes energy used

to produce and maintain

data centres, mobile

devices and networks

The number of drones that flew in the same airspace

as aircraft in the UK in 2018. The number of near-

misses has increased significantly in recent years:

in 2010, only four such incidents were reported

Gross revenue Marvel’s Avengers: Endgame made just on its

opening weekend. In comparison, Iron Man, the first film of

the series released in 2008, grossed a total of $585 million

Total production budget for Avengers: Endgame, more than

double that of Iron Man, which had just $140 million

Weight per unit of the computers

used to land Apollo 11 on the Moon.

Fifty years later, an iPhone XS runs

about five million times faster

than the Apollo Guidance Computer

Petabytes of data the

Event Horizon Telescopes

collected to capture the

first image of a black

hole. Eight ground-

based telescopes across

the globe were pointed

toward galaxy M87 to

form a combined Earth-

sized virtual telescope

The record-breaking number of digits of pi calculated by a

Google employee in March 2019. Nasa only uses around

15 digits of pi in its calculations to send rockets into space

Number of paid Spotify subscribers worldwide in April

2019 – twice as many as its closest rival, Apple Music.

In the US, however, Apple Music has more subscribers

Increase in smartwatch

shipments in early 2019,

compared to the same period

in 2018. Over a third (35.8

per cent) sold are by Apple

Temperature recorded in London’s Kew Gardens on

February 26, 2019, making it the hottest winter day the

UK has ever experienced. At the time, parts of the

country were hotter than Malibu, Barcelona and Crete

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