Felix Richter is a data journalist at Statista.
Celebrated each year on April 7 to commemorate the founding of the World Health Organization (WHO) in 1948, World Health Day usually draws attention to a specific health topic that concer...
Today marks the 50th anniversary of a momentous phone call. On April 3, 1973, Motorola engineer Martin Cooper was standing in a street of New York when he made the first ever call on a tr...
According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), the prevalence of autism among U.S. children has risen significantly in recent years. While 6.7 in 1,000 children were d...
2022 was another good year for the music industry. According to IFPI’s latest Global Music Report, worldwide recorded music revenues totaled $26.2 billion last year, up 9 percent from the...
When the first music and video streaming services were introduced around 2010, they were greeted with a healthy dose of skepticism. They wouldn’t be reliable enough, the sound/image quali...
While the ultimate key to happiness has yet to be found, there are many different things that make people happy. While some find happiness and fulfillment in their job, others find it the...
Following this week’s release of GPT-4, OpenAI’s new multimodal model accepting image and text inputs rather than ChatGPT’s text-only prompts, people on social media have been marveling a...
After a string of fires caused by batteries of electric scooters and bicycles, lithium-ion batteries have come under scrutiny once again. The batteries, which power many everyday products...
While few industries have been spared by the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic over the past three years, even fewer have been hit as hard as the tourism sector. After Covid-19 had made 202...
Aside from declining fertility rates and the trend towards smaller families, a global increase in life expectancies is the main driver behind the ongoing transition towards older societie...
As the UN commemorates World Day of Social Justice on February 20, we’re taking a look at one of the key challenges the world is facing in the coming decades: the gradual and largely irre...
虽然OpenAI随着2022年11月ChatGPT的发布而一战成名，但这家位于美国的人工智能技术研究和部署公司，绝不仅限于当前流行的这款人工智能聊天机器人。事实上，OpenAI背后的技术早已被世界各地的数百家公司使用。
2020年初，当新冠疫情全面袭击美国时，数以千计的企业被迫停业，数百万国人在几周内失去了工作。结果，美国当年第二季度的GDP暴跌了29.9%，这种程度的经济衰退是前所未有的。当时，人们对美国经济反弹的速度，有着诸多不安与不确定感。但三年后的现在，我们可以有把握地说，美国经济的复苏状况令人印象深刻。
While OpenAI has really risen to fame with the release of ChatGPT in November 2022, the U.S.-based artificial intelligence research and deployment company is about much more than its popu...
Nothing beats the convenience of having decades worth of music at your disposal at any time, any place, all at a monthly fee equivalent to the price of a single album. Considering this, t...
