Thursday, January 8, 2026

What are some amazing facts about technology?

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This is the Library of Alexandria.

This is the reason why Amazon named its virtual assistant ALEXA.

They want to have each and every knowledge present within themselves .

2. How the word “ shooting” as in recording or filming got its name ??

The term "shot" is derived from the early days of film production when cameras were hand-cranked, and operated similarly to the hand-cranked machine guns of the time. That is, a cameraman would "shootfilm the way someone would "shoot" bullets from a machine gun.

3. Tomatoes grown from the Excess heat mining of Bitcoins

Source:

'Cryptomatoes' Using Excess Mining Heat to Grow Produce - Bitcoin News

4. YouTube had to change their 16 digit count due to PSY Gangnam Style song

How “Gangnam Style” broke YouTube’s counter