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for animals send data to a community database every day in order to better understand nature.

This is, according to Prof. Günther Schuh from RWTH Aachen University, how long the useful life of electric cars could be in the future. The current average in Germany is 11.3 years.

computing operations per second: That’s how much the ENIAC computer weighing 27 metric tons (30 short tons) achieved in the 1940s. Today’s mainframes manage 2.8 quadrillion.

That’s the anticipated global sales volume of Data-as-a-Service in 2028, according to analysts at Mordor Intelligence. That would be more than twice the 2023 volume of around 17.3 billion dollars. Especially the Asia-Pacific market is growing rapidly in this area.

Schaeffler intends to reduce CO₂ emissions on the factory floor by 75 percent compared to 2019 and to achieve completely climate-neutral operations by 2040.

That's the amount of carbon dioxide that Mammoth, the largest plant of its kind, can filter from the air every year. Sounds like a lot, but in order to offset global emissions, 50 billion tons per year would have to be captured and stored – in other words, around 140,000 times as much.

That's roughly the planned length of the "Autoflow-Road" conveyor belt with which the Japanese Ministry of Land, Infrastucture, Transport and Tourism wants to connect the cities of Tokyo and Osaka.

of bicycle paths have been created in Paris and the metropolitan area of the French capital in recent years as part of the 15-minute city concept. In addition, the city planted nearly 200,000 new trees, expanded the public transportation network in certain areas, and rerouted traffic away from the banks of the Seine.

of Swiss citizens under the age of 30 would consume lab-grown meat according to a current study.

of the current mountains of waste are disposed of in appropriate facilities, according to the UN, the rest somewhere else, e.g. 37 million tons of plastic waste per year in the sea.