Your brain burns 400-500 calories a day. That’s about a fifth of your total energy requirements. Most of this is concerned with the largely automatic process of controlling your muscles and processing sensory input, although some studies show solving tricky problems increases your brain’s metabolic requirements too.
100 Mind-Blowing Processing Facts
A scientific calculator is 6 times more powerful than the Apollo 11 computer. A TI-83 calculator has 6 times more processing power than the computer that landed Apollo 11 on the moon.
There are Amish computers. There are computers specially designed without Internet, video, or music capabilities, just for the Amish. The features include word processing, drawing, accounting, spreadsheets, and more – but not much more.
Meat processing company JBS was the victim of a ransomware attack that shut down beef and poultry processing plants on four different continents. (Wall Street Journal)
AI can be used for natural language processing. Natural language processing is the ability of machines to understand and interpret human language. This technology is already being used in chatbots and voice assistants.