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A display resolution standard is a commonly used width and height dimension (display resolution) of an electronic visual display device, measured in pixels...

A hotspot is a physical location where people can obtain Internet access, typically using Wi-Fi technology, via a wireless local-area network (WLAN) using...

A patch is data that is intended to be used to modify an existing software resource such as a program or a file, often to fix bugs and security vulnerabilities...

Mobile telephony is the provision of telephone services to mobile phones rather than fixed-location phones (landline phones). Telephony is supposed to...

The ASM-DT is a Russian prototype folding-stock underwater firearm. It emerged in the 1990s. The introduction of the APS Underwater Assault Rifle solved...

Multimedia Messaging Service (MMS) is a standard way to send messages that include multimedia content to and from a mobile phone over a cellular network...

Grid energy storage (also called large-scale energy storage) is a collection of methods used for energy storage on a large scale within an electrical power...

Signalling System No. 7 (SS7) is a set of telephony signaling protocols developed in the 1970s, which is used to set up and tear down telephone calls in...

In the 1950s and 1960s, computer operating software and compilers were delivered as a part of hardware purchases without separate fees. At the time, source...

Shavit 2 (Hebrew: "comet" – שביט) is a small lift launch vehicle produced by Israel from 1982 onwards, to launch satellites into low Earth orbit. It was...

The Henry repeating rifle is a lever-action tubular magazine rifle. It is famous for having been used at the Battle of the Little Bighorn and having been...

These tables provide a comparison of operating systems, of computer devices, as listing general and technical information for a number of widely used and...

Ofeq, also spelled Offek or Ofek (Hebrew: אופק, lit. Horizon) is the designation of a series of Israeli reconnaissance satellites first launched in 1988...

WinFS (short for Windows Future Storage) was the code name for a canceled data storage and management system project based on relational databases, developed...

The Concurrent Design Facility (CDF) is the European Space Agency main assessment center for future space missions and industrial review. Located at ESTEC...

Software prototyping is the activity of creating prototypes of software applications, i.e., incomplete versions of the software program being developed...

Magnesium alloys are mixtures of magnesium (the lightest structural metal) with other metals (called an alloy), often aluminium, zinc, manganese, silicon...

A dynamometer or "dyno" for short, is a device for simultaneously measuring the torque and rotational speed (RPM) of an engine, motor or other rotating...

The Shippingport Atomic Power Station was (according to the US Nuclear Regulatory Commission) the world's first full-scale atomic electric power plant...

Greenergy International Ltd is a British distributor of petrol and diesel for motor vehicles and at one point had over a quarter of the UK market. It blends...