World’s first skyscraper. The story of skyscrapers often begins in New York and Chicago from around 1884 with increasingly tall buildings. However, what is technically the world’s first skyscraper was built in Shropshire in 1796–7. Shrewsbury Flaxmill Maltings may not look like a skyscraper, but its Main Mill was the first building in the world to have an iron frame supporting the weight of the structure, the formula for every skyscraper ever built so that it has been dubbed the ‘Grandparent of Skyscrapers’.
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The US is the Most Prepared Country for Cybercrime. While companies globally report ransomware attacks affecting their businesses, firms in the United States are increasingly ready. These companies have 47% of cyber-resilience strategies implemented.
Voice-Search Feature Is Gaining Widespread Popularity: AI-powered voice-search features on smartphones, smart speakers, and other voice-enabled gadgets are becoming increasingly mainstream, thanks to technological advancements in the field of speech recognition. Current Artificial Intelligence stats point out that 41 per cent of people who use smart devices utilise the voice-search feature as often as once a day.
The development of machine learning is expected to be increasingly automated. Some sectors that best exemplify this fun fact about technology are agriculture, cybersecurity (you can read more about it from our expert interview on ransomware attacks and cybersecurity), fintech, manufacturing, and many more.