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| 2025 | Global data creation projected to grow to more than 180 zettabytes. |
| 2025 |
Binary prefix
The International Electrotechnical Commission (IEC) adopted the binary prefixes robi (Ri, 10^9) and quebi (Qi, 10^10) for binary representations of digital information.
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| 2025 |
Qubit
The University of Innsbruck team successfully simulated two-dimensional lattice gauge theories on their qudit quantum computer.
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| 2024 |
Speaking clock
National Communication Museum in Melbourne opened, displaying a restored 1954 speaking clock with Gordon Gow's original voice and an Assman Speaking Clock from 1990.
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| 2024 |
Qubit
Researchers demonstrated extensible control of superconducting qudits up to d=4 based on programmable two-photon interactions.
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| June 2024 | Terren Peizer was convicted of all three charges related to insider trading and faces up to 65 years in prison. |
| June 2024 |
Units of information
32 TB identified as the largest hard disk drive size.
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| June 2024 |
Units of information
100 TB recognized as the largest commercially available solid-state drive size.
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| February 2024 |
Stears
Launched Stears Open Data, a non-profit initiative supported by Luminate, aimed at providing free access to data on Africa's urbanisation, public goods, and governance.
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| January 2024 |
Units of information
'Video' hard disk drives of 24 TB size available for $440.
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| January 2024 |
Units of information
Hard disk drives of 16 TB size available for approximately $130, primarily for enterprise SAS applications.
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| January 2024 |
Units of information
DDR5 DRAM laptop memory with 16 GB capacity available for under $40.
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| January 4 2024 |
Information Management Body of Knowledge
IMBOK community website domain (IMBOK.ORG) lapsed, with content moved to IMBOK.INFO domain
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| 2023 |
Stears
Stears made early predictions about the Nigerian election outcome, showcasing their data analysis capabilities.
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| 2023 |
Infodemic
The PC videogame 'Infodemic: Journalism in crisis' was announced by the Peruvian media and information literacy (MIL) non-governmental organization A Mí No Me La Hacen.
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| 2023 | Terren Peizer was charged with insider trading by the SEC for selling $20 million of Ontrak Inc. stock while possessing material nonpublic negative information. |
| 2023 | Appears in the film Beau Is Afraid, shown in a shot of the protagonist's recently called contacts. |
| 2022 |
Stears
Stears successfully raised $3.3 million in funding from multiple investors including MaC Venture Capital, Serena Ventures (founded by Serena Williams), Melo 7 Tech Partners, Omidyar Group's Laminate Fund, and Cascador.
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| 2022 |
Binary prefix
The International Bureau of Weights and Measures (BIPM) adopted the decimal prefixes ronna for 10^9 and quetta for 10^10.
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| 2022 |
Units of information
Prediction of 200 TB as the largest solid-state drive size.
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| 2022 |
Qubit
Researchers at the University of California, Berkeley developed a technique to dynamically control cross-Kerr interactions between fixed-frequency qutrits, achieving high two-qutrit gate fidelities.
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| 2022 |
Qubit
Researchers at the University of Innsbruck developed a universal qudit quantum processor with trapped ions.
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| 2022 |
Qubit
Researchers at Tsinghua University's Center for Quantum Information implemented the dual-type qubit scheme in trapped ion quantum computers using the same ion species.
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| 2022 |
Byte
The International Bureau of Weights and Measures (BIPM) adopted two new prefixes: ronna- for 10^9 and quetta- for 10^10, extending the byte unit measurement system.
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| July 1 2022 |
Speaking clock
The French speaking clock service was officially shut down by Orange.
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| May 2022 |
Speaking clock
Orange telecommunications company announced the planned discontinuation of the French speaking clock service due to declining usage.
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| February 2022 | The IRS agreed to halt their facial recognition program after AJL and other organizations sent letters to legislators and requested intervention, marking a significant victory for the organization's advocacy against invasive facial recognition technologies. |
| January 2022 | AJL collaborated with Fight for the Future and the Electronic Privacy Information Center to launch the DumpID.me online petition, calling for the IRS to stop using ID.me facial recognition technology for user logins. |
| 2021 | Fast Company recognized the Algorithmic Justice League as one of the 10 most innovative AI companies in the world, highlighting the organization's significant impact in addressing AI bias and promoting ethical AI development. |
| September 2021 |
Infodemic
Preliminary research published in fall suggested that visual information like scientific infographics might help mitigate belief in COVID-19 misinformation by addressing trust in science and scientists.
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| September 2021 | In the approximately nine-month period up to September, Senate and House members disclosed 4,000 trades worth at least $315 million in stocks and bonds. |
| September 2021 | Algorithmic Justice League collaborated with Olay and O'Neil Risk Consulting & Algorithmic Auditing (ORCAA) to conduct the Decode the Bias campaign, auditing the Olay Skin Advisor (OSA) System for bias against women of color. |
| August 20 2021 |
Infodemic
Financial Times journalist Siddharth Venkataramakrishnan critiques the concept of infodemic, arguing that describing misinformation's spread like a disease oversimplifies the problem and ignores the nuanced nature of information accuracy.
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| July 20 2021 |
Infodemic
Communication scholars Felix Simon and Chico Camargo publish an article in New Media & Society challenging the infodemic metaphor, arguing it conflates social behaviors and lacks concrete empirical evidence.
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| June 3 2021 |
Google Knowledge Graph
A Knowledge Graph box controversially identified Kannada as the 'ugliest language in India', causing significant public outrage from the Kannada-language community and a threat of legal action from the state of Karnataka.
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| February 21 2021 |
Infodemic
WHO published a refined definition of infodemic, emphasizing the challenge of false or misleading information in digital and physical environments during disease outbreaks.
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| 2020 |
Speaking clock
Speaking clock service continued to operate, receiving approximately 2,000 calls per day, totaling around 1,000,000 calls annually.
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| 2020 | Total amount of global data created, captured, copied, and consumed reached 64.2 zettabytes. |
| 2020 |
Dial-A-Poem Montreal
Dial-A-Poem Montreal resumed with a 2020-2021 edition after a long hiatus.
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| 2020 |
Infodemic
The term 'infodemic' gains widespread prominence during the COVID-19 pandemic, highlighting the global spread of both accurate and inaccurate information about the pandemic.
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| 2020 |
Google Knowledge Graph
Dariusz Jemielniak published a book highlighting that most Google users are unaware that Knowledge Graph answers originate from Wikipedia, potentially reducing Wikipedia's popularity and ability to attract volunteers and fundraising.
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| 2020 | Featured in the Netflix documentary 'Coded Bias', which premiered at the Sundance Film Festival, highlighting the Algorithmic Justice League's research and advocacy against algorithmic bias in facial recognition systems. |
| 2020 | Advocacy efforts by AJL and similar groups led Amazon and IBM to address algorithmic biases and temporarily ban their facial recognition products from police use. |
| November 2020 |
Infodemic
Forum on Information and Democracy produces a report with 250 recommendations to protect democracies, human rights, and health in response to infodemics.
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| October 2020 |
AlloCiné
AlloCiné permanently closed its user forums, marking the end of an era for community discussion on the platform.
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| October 2020 |
Infodemic
Royal Society and British Academy joint report discusses the infodemic surrounding COVID-19 vaccine deployment, highlighting challenges of misinformation.
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| July 2020 | The Algorithmic Justice League officially launched the Community Reporting of Algorithmic System Harms (CRASH) Project, which aims to create a framework for bug-bounty programs to uncover and report algorithmic bias in AI technologies. |
| June 2020 |
Infodemic
Journal of Medical Internet Research publishes issue featuring WHO's framework for managing the COVID-19 infodemic, acknowledging infodemiology as an emerging scientific field.
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| May 2020 |
Google Knowledge Graph
Google expands the Knowledge Graph to 500 billion facts covering 5 billion entities, demonstrating significant growth in its information repository.
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