Search results for 'technology' (61)
Stamford, Connecticut, United States--United Rentals, Inc. has an integrated network of 1,520 rental locations in North America, 38 in Europe, 23 in Australia and 19 in New Zealand; the company offers approximately 4,800 classes of equipment for rent with a total original cost of $20.59 billion, setting the world record for being the World's Largest Equipment Rental Company, according to the WORLD RECORD ACADEMY.
Cerro Pachon, Elqui Province, Chile--The Vera C. Rubin Observatory, formerly known as the Large Synoptic Survey Telescope (LSST), located on the El Peñón peak of Cerro Pachón, in northern Chile, house the Simonyi Survey Telescope, a wide-field reflecting telescope with an 8.4-meter primary mirror that will photograph the entire available sky every few nights; images will be recorded by a 3.2-gigapixel charge-coupled device imaging (CCD) camera, which sets the world record for being the World’s Largest Digital Camera, according to the WORLD RECORD ACADEMY.
Memphis, Tennessee, United States--Jackson Oswalt, from Memphis, Tennessee, successfully made a nuclear fusion reactor in his family's spare room aged just 12 with parts he got online in his family playroom, setting the world record for being the World's youngest person to achieve nuclear fusion, according to the WORLD RECORD ACADEMY.
North Las Vegas, Nevada, United States--Air Liquide officially opened its largest liquid hydrogen production and logistics infrastructure facility in North Las Vegas, Nevada; The facility, and the associated logistics infrastructure, marks a $250 million investment created jobs for 700 contractors and sets the world record for being the World’s Largest Liquid Hydrogen Production Plant, according to the WORLD RECORD ACADEMY.
Irving, Texas, United States--Caterpillar Inc., also known as Cat, (NYSE: CAT), an American construction, mining and other engineering equipment manufacturer, has over 500 locations across the globe, employs 107,700 people and distributed its products through 44 distributors in the US and 116 in other regions across 193 countries; with over US$37 billion in sales, Caterpillar sets the world record for being the World's Largest Construction Equipment Manufacturer, according to the WORLD RECORD ACADEMY.
Sony City, Minato, Tokyo, Japan--Sony Group Corporation (TYO: 6758 | NYSE: SONY), a Japanese multinational conglomerate headquartered in Minato, Tokyo, Japan, was established in 1946 as Tokyo Tsushin Kogyo by Masaru Ibuka and Akio Morita; in 2023, Sony’s image sensor market share by revenue was 53%, making Sony the World's Largest Manufacturer of Image Sensors, according to the WORLD RECORD ACADEMY.
Leinfelden-Echterdingen, Germany--Daimler Truck AG (FWB: DTG), headquartered in Leinfelden-Echterdingen, Germany, develop and produce trucks and buses that are marketed under the Freightliner, Thomas Built Buses, Western Star, Mercedes-Benz, FUSO, BharatBenz, RIZON and Setra brands; it has over 35 main locations worldwide and approximately 100,000 employees, thus setting the world record for being the World's Largest Commercial Vehicle Manufacturer, according to the WORLD RECORD ACADEMY.
Armonk, New York, United States--IBM Research is the research and development division for IBM, an American multinational information technology company headquartered in Armonk, New York, with operations in over 170 countries; it has twelve labs on six continents, setting the world record for being the World's Largest Industrial Research Organization, according to the WORLD RECORD ACADEMY.
Redmond, Washington, United States--Microsoft Corporation (Nasdaq: MSFT), founded by Bill Gates and Paul Allen, is an American multinational corporation and technology company headquartered in Redmond, Washington; its Windows operating system runs on over 80% of laptops and desktop computers globally, thus setting the world record for being the World's Largest Software Maker, according to the WORLD RECORD ACADEMY.
Mountain View, California, United States--Google LLC (NASDAQ: GOOGL, GOOG) is an American-based multinational corporation and technology company focusing on online advertising, search engine technology, cloud computing, computer software, quantum computing, e-commerce, consumer electronics, and artificial intelligence (AI); capturing nearly 92 percent of the search market, it sets the world record for being the World's Largest Search Engine, according to the WORLD RECORD ACADEMY.
Menlo Park, California, United States--Facebook, (Nasdaq: META), a social media and social networking service owned by American technology conglomerate Meta, was created in 2004 by Mark Zuckerberg with four other Harvard College students and roommates (Eduardo Saverin, Andrew McCollum, Dustin Moskovitz, and Chris Hughes); Facebook championed over three billion monthly active users (MAU) as of January 2024, thus setting the world record for being the World's Largest Social Media Platform, according to the WORLD RECORD ACADEMY.
Seattle, Washington, United States--Amazon.com, Inc., doing business as Amazon, (Nasdaq: AMZN), an American multinational technology company engaged in e-commerce, cloud computing, online advertising, digital streaming, and artificial intelligence, founded on July 5, 1994 by Jeff Bezos in Bellevue, Washington, has the 12th-most visited website in the world; with with $412.1 billion in annual web sales it sets the world record for being the World's Largest Online Retailer and Marketplace, according to the WORLD RECORD ACADEMY.
Cupertino, California, United States--Apple Inc., an American multinational corporation and technology company headquartered and incorporated in Cupertino, California, in Silicon Valley, was founded in 1976 as Apple Computer Company by Steve Jobs, Steve Wozniak and Ronald Wayne; with US$383.29 billion revenues in 2023, Apple sets the world record for being the World's Largest Technology Company by Revenue, according to the WORLD RECORD ACADEMY.
RIYADH, Saudi Arabia--The Saudi Water Authority (SWA), formerly the Saline Water Conversion Corporation (SWCC), a Saudi Arabian government authority responsible for regulating and monitoring water sector business and services, operates and monitors 33 desalination plants and over 139 purification plants in the country; it has a production capacity of 7.5 million cubic meters per day, setting the world record for being the World’s largest producer of desalinated water, according to the WORLD RECORD ACADEMY.
Amagasaki, Hyogo, Japan--The TOKUI Fast Accurate Synchronized Motion Testing Robot (TOKUFASTbot), built by a team of engineers from Mitsubishi Electric (TOKYO: 6503), can perform a 90° rotation time of 0.009 second thanks to its rotation mechanism; the robot's time of 0.305 second to solve a puzzle cube sets the world record for being the Fastest robot to solve a puzzle cube, according to the WORLD RECORD ACADEMY.
Songdo, Korea--UVify, the leader in swarm drone innovation, with a partnership with SPH Engineering, the developer of Drone Show Software, orchestrated a breathtaking display of 5,293 IFO drones that lit up the night sky, setting the new world record for the Most drones flown simultaneously, according to the WORLD RECORD ACADEMY.
Las Vegas, Nevada, United States--The Esports Awards, in collaboration with Xfinity, break the world record for the Largest Digital Video Game Display, with a screen made up of 3,552 LED panels, covering a colossal 100,000 square feet, with WWE superstars Becky Lynch and Bianca Belair, Bugha and Goldenboy playing on the enormous screen, which sets the new world record for the World's Largest Digital Videogame Display, according to the WORLD RECORD ACADEMY.
Orono, Maine, United States--Surpassing its own 2019 World Record for the largest polymer 3D printer, University of Maine unveiled a next-generation printer that is four times larger than its predecessor; the new printer, dubbed Factory of the Future 1.0 (FoF 1.0), is designed to print objects as large as 96 feet long by 32 feet wide by 18 feet high, and can print up to 500 pounds per hour, setting the new world record for the World's Largest Polymer 3D Printer, according to the WORLD RECORD ACADEMY.
Lincoln County, North Carolina, United States--Siemens Energy’s 60Hz SGT6-9000HL gas turbine achieved a power output of 410.9 MW (corrected to ISO standard conditions) operating under a multi-year field-test and verification program at Duke Energy’s Lincoln Combustion Turbine Station near Denver, North Carolina, thus setting the world record for the Most powerful simple cycle gas power plant, according to the WORLD RECORD ACADEMY.
Redmond, Washington, United States--The tech giant Microsoft constructed the world's quietest room; known as the anechoic chamber, it is located in the company's headquarters in Redmond, Washington, US; ultra-sensitive tests performed presented the average background noise reading of -20.35 decibels, which is the world record for the World's Quietest Room, according to the WORLD RECORD ACADEMY.