According to Google, there are currently more than 500 million objects about which they can display information from a database of 3.5 billion facts.

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The image was discovered by the Wide-Field Infared Survey Explorer (WISE), which scans the night sky for lights in the infrared range to discover more about different aspects of astronomical objects.

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Take a look below to discover more about the ever-expanding geosocial universe and the course of its objects.

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The reason, he said, has more to do with Capone's notoriety than anything special about the objects themselves.

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With more than seven million objects to look after, the team of about 100 conservationists and scientists at the British Museum has its work cut out.

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When viewing an episode of TV's Mad Men, for example, consumers could tap on objects, such as Don Draper's hat, to get more information about the items and where to buy them.

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Filling a neoclassical courtyard, the addition that opened last fall tripled the space devoted to Islamic art and more than doubled the number of objects on view to almost 3, 000, or about a sixth of the museum's works from the Islamic world.

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It may not be until more objects around us are actually "smarter, " when the Internet becomes more about things in our environment rather than caches of information that we access through special devices, that we may start to solve some of the problems QR codes are failing to address.

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They started off with more than 1, 000 virtual Moon-sized objects made of rock and ice and simulated about 200 million years of planetary evolution.

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