You’re reading Significant Digits, a daily digest of the numbers tucked inside the news. 15.1 percent Congratulations, songwriters, you’re getting a raise: the Copyright Royalty Board ruled that songwriters will get a 15.1 percent share of streaming revenues over the next five years, up from the current rate of 10.5 percent. Streaming providers like Spotify […]
You’re reading Significant Digits, a daily digest of the numbers tucked inside the news. 3 women That’s the current number of women who have entered a WWE Royal Rumble. But that figure is poised to rise this weekend with the first women’s Rumble (and the 31st Rumble overall). [Rumblemetrics] 32.5 percent Among the 1,239 artists […]
You’re reading Significant Digits, a daily digest of the numbers tucked inside the news. 2 clones In a paper released on Wednesday, Chinese scientists announced the first cloned primates, Zhong Zhong and Hua Hua. They’re female macaques about seven and eight weeks old. [Associated Press] 8 percent Percentage of young adults who identify as white […]
You’re reading Significant Digits, a daily digest of the numbers tucked inside the news. 2 questions Facebook will begin asking its users whether they recognize and trust news sources — a two-question survey that will then be fed back into a complicated algorithm to favor and disfavor links from publications in Facebook’s news feed. Hopefully […]
You’re reading Significant Digits, a daily digest of the numbers tucked inside the news. 0.25˚C In 2016, the United Nations International Maritime Organization announced that international shipping vessels will have to switch to fuels that are less than 0.5 percent sulfur content by 2020. This is a bit of a double-edged sword as far as […]