Tech Trivia

• The word 'Robot' comes from Czech word 'ROBOTA'. In English, it translates to 'forced labor'. 
• A Red Panda is an animal native to the Himalayas and Southwestern China. The English word for Red Panda is Firefox which is where the browser gets its name from. So the Firefox Logo is actually a Red Panda and not Fox as thought by many (including me!).
• Android is Andy Rubin who is the co-creator of Android. It was a nick-name given to him at Apple before he joined Google, for his obsession and love for robots.
• Creators of PNG file format wanted it to be pronounced as PING.
• Nothing can be compared to the human mind. If a computer is designed which is as powerful as the human brain, then it would be able to perform about 38 thousand trillion operations per second. Also, it will be able to hold about 3584 terabytes of memory.
• HP, Microsoft & Apple have one not so obvious thing in common - they all started in a garage.
• If you find a security bug in Facebook, they are willing to pay money ($500 and upwards) for you to tell them about it.
• 160 billion emails are sent daily, 97% of which are spam.
• Wikipedia uses an army of anti-vadal bots. These bots prevent vandalism of wiki pages. As per them, vandalism is anyone signing up and editing pages with an intent to destroy or alter content in a negative manner.
• Ubuntu is one of the most popular distribution channels of Linux. The word Ubuntu comes  from the African word meaning 'I am because of you'.
• The actual name of Android mascot is 'Bugdroid', though it is not official, the team at Google refer to it by this name.
• The first known cell phone virus, Cabir.A, appeared in 2004.