Dogs can understand up to 250 words and gestures. The average dog is as smart as a two-year-old child.
100 Mind-Blowing Smart Facts
A Polish doctor once faked an outbreak to keep the Nazis away. Eugene Lazowski announced that there was a typhus outbreak that ended up saving over 8,000 people during the Second World War. At the time, this was considered to be a smart move because Lazowski decided to tug on the German’s phobias about hygiene.
Dogs can understand up to 250 words and gestures. The average dog is as smart as a two-year-old kid.
Underground is the only English word that begins and ends with the letters “-und.” There’s another one of the useless facts you can use to sound smart.
Amazon Alexa stores your conversations with the device. By now, millions of households feature an Amazon Echo device or other Amazon smart devices based on Alexa. These smart assistants provide convenience and functionality in countless ways. Not everyone realizes these devices store conversations with the device in the cloud, though. After each interaction, Amazon stores these conversations in the cloud indefinitely. An Echo device doesn’t record every conversation in the Ether. Each Echo relies on a wake word, like “Alexa”, to start recording conversations. Only the commands spoken to the device are stored by Amazon and are used purely to make the AI better. Users can and should delete these conversations in their device settings from time to time. Doing so provides added security and protection from data hackers.
Linux Powers a Multitude of Devices: Nowadays, Linux runs on almost anything: servers, desktops, smartphones, smart watches, etc. Almost every hand-held device has a Linux kernel at the core of its operating system. Linux’s open-source nature allows developers to customise it for different devices and software needs, making it a widely used operating system in the world.
The average smart home could be at risk of more than 12,000 hacker attacks in one week. (Purplesec)
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.
‘’China’s top search engine company Baidu made a smart cat shelter in Beijing that uses AI to verify when a cat is approaching and open its door. The cat shelter is heated and also offers cats food and water.’’ – The Verge.