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• Technology never ceases to amaze us. But somethings are far from how we imagine them to be. Here are ten technology facts that may never have crossed you.

  15.We only keep 1 in 10 of the apps we try

Speaking of mobile phone app stores, it's tough out there for developers: analysts estimate that around 80-90 percent of the apps installed on smartphones are eventually deleted in the long term, which means we only stick with around 1 in 10 of them. When you're up against users who are that fickle, it's no wonder that the big hitters in the app world attract an awful lot of investment.

14. 205 billion emails are sent every day

According to the best estimates we have, around 205 billion emails are sent and received every single day across the world. Email has of course helped to revolutionise the way we communicate - enabling us to send messages from one side of the planet to the other, instantly and for free - but sending emails has now become so convenient and widespread that managing our inboxes effectively is an increasingly difficult challenge.

 13.Apple and Microsoft were once partners

There's not much love lost between Apple and Microsoft nowadays - Microsoft's appearance at the iPad Pro launch notwithstanding - but the two companies have worked very closely together in the past. When the first Apple computers were being developed in the early 1980s, Microsoft was working on several important programs for them. Only when the two companies began producing their own graphical operating systems (now Mac OS and Windows) did the rivalry truly begin.

12. Digital music sales have only just overtaken physical music sales

The iPod has been with us since 2001 and Spotify launched back in 2008, but it was only last year that revenue from digital download sales and subscriptions overtook revenue from physical music formats like CDs and vinyl ($6.85 billion versus $6.82 billion in case you were wondering). Overall, the music industry as a whole is raking in about 38 percent of the money it was making back in the heady days of 1999.

11. Amazon chose its name because "A" is early in the alphabet

The story of online retailer Amazon is well worth looking into in full, but here's a bit of trivia for you: founder Jeff Bezos chose the name because at the time Yahoo listed its search results in alphabetical order. The company's original moniker was Cadabra (as in "abracadabra") but apparently this was too close to "cadaver" and so the switch was made. It just goes to show what a difference a name can make.

10. A 13-year-old boy named Shubham Banerjee created the first braille printer named Braigo (comes from Braille-lego)

Source: CBC

9. EBAY started out as a website providing information about Ebola. The site did not start as an online auction website. It had sections for biotech startups, travel and personal shopping and details about Ebola.

*Source: Gizmodo

8. 3D Printing was invented in the 1980s. Yes, it is not as new as you think. Charles Hull created a model of his Stereolithography machine in 1983 and filed for a patent in 1986.

*Source: 3D Print

7. You throw away your electronics for free? You can get money for disposing your electronics at the EcoATM, world’s first automated kiosk that exchanges electronic devices in return for money.

Source: Inhabitat

6. Malbolge is world’s toughest programming language. Invented by Ben Olmstead, the language is named after the eighth circle of hell in Dante’s Inferno. The aim was to create a language that is almost impossible to use.

*Source: Sinisterly

5. The International Space Station (ISS) project started in 1998 with a construction cost of $150 billion, being one of the most expensive projects ever.

Source: Engadget

4. Your google searches have an ecological effect. Google servers release almost 200 tons of CO2 per day performing an estimated 1 billion searches every day.

*Source: Earth Times

3. Computation can not be done without generating heat. Rolf Landauer discovered in 1961 that every bit destroyed generates at least kTln2 joules of heat, where k is Boltzmann constant and T is absolute temperature.

*Source: Google

2. Microsoft wants to put their cloud data center under water. Project Natick is aimed at building and running a data center submerged in the ocean which can make data centers efficient and eco-friendly solving the biggest problem of keeping them cool.

*Source: Dirhost

1. Entire data of the world can be stored in 4 grams of DNA. A gram of DNA can store 455 exabytes of data. An exabyte has one billion gigabytes. The world’s data is around 1.8 zettabytes, and a ze guyttabyte has 1,000 exabytes. So yes, all the world’s data can be stored in a DNA hard drive the size of a teaspoon.

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