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Технология — это применение концептуальных знаний для достижения практических целей , особенно воспроизводимым способом. Слово технология может также означать продукты, полученные в результате таких усилий, включая как материальные инструменты, такие как посуда или машины , так и нематериальные, такие как программное обеспечение . Технология играет важную роль в науке , технике и повседневной жизни .

Технологические достижения привели к значительным изменениям в обществе . Самая ранняя известная технология — это каменный инструмент , использовавшийся в доисторические времена , за которым последовало управление огнем , что способствовало развитию человеческого мозга и развитию языка во время Ледникового периода . Изобретение колеса в Бронзовом веке позволило путешествовать дальше и создавать более сложные машины. Более поздние технологические изобретения, включая печатный станок , телефон и Интернет , снизили барьеры в общении и положили начало экономике знаний . ( Полная статья... )

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Legacy Parkway (обозначается как State Route 67 , SR-67 ) — это четырехполосная парковая дорога с контролируемым доступом длиной 11,5 миль (18,5 км), расположенная почти полностью в округе Дэвис в северной части американского штата Юта . Парковая дорога идет на север от межштатной автомагистрали 215 (I-215) на северо-западе Солт-Лейк-Сити до развязки Wasatch Weave в Фармингтоне с двумя промежуточными развязками, обеспечивающими доступ к Вудс-Кросс и Сентервиллу . Водно-болотные угодья близлежащего Большого Соленого озера и природные заповедники граничат с западной стороной парковой дороги, в то время как восточная сторона примерно параллельнажелезнодорожным линиям Union Pacific и Utah Transit Authority и I-15 . В среднем ежедневно парковую дорогу используют от 20 000 до 23 000 транспортных средств.Строительство началось в 2006 году и было завершено в 2008 году, а парковая дорога открылась в сентябре того же года. Парковая дорога была спорной в своей конструкции и оспаривалась в суде несколько раз, прежде чем был достигнут компромисс между государством и Sierra Club , который ограничил скорость на дороге и запретил движение полугрузовиков по шоссе, за исключением экстренных случаев. В дополнение к ограничениям по скорости и грузовикам, дорога была сокращена с шестиполосной скоростной автомагистрали до четырехполосной парковой автомагистрали. Ограничения компромиссного соглашения имели дату окончания действия 1 января 2020 года, когда ограничение скорости было увеличено до 65 миль в час (105 км/ч), а грузовики больше не были запрещены. ( Полная статья... )
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Балерины в традиционных защитных одеждах, 1890 г.

A bal maiden, from the Cornish language bal, a mine, and the English "maiden", a young or unmarried woman, was a female manual labourer working in the mining industries of Cornwall and western Devon, at the south-western extremity of Great Britain. The term has been in use since at least the early 18th century. At least 55,000 women and girls worked as bal maidens, and the actual number is likely to have been much higher.

While women worked in coal mines elsewhere in Britain, either on the surface or underground, bal maidens worked only on the surface. It is likely that Cornish women had worked in metal mining since antiquity, but the first records of female mine workers date from the 13th century. After the Black Death in the 14th century, mining declined, and no records of female workers have been found from then until the late 17th century. Industrial improvements, the end of Crown control of metal mines, and rising demand for raw materials caused a boom in Cornish mining in the late 17th and early 18th centuries. Increasing numbers of women and girls were recruited to the mines from about 1720, processing ore sent up by the male miners underground. The discovery of cheaper sources of copper in North Wales in the 1770s triggered a crash in the copper price, and many mines closed. (Full article...)
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Aerial view of Saint-Inglevert Airfield.

Saint-Inglevert Airfield is a general aviation airfield at Saint-Inglevert, Pas-de-Calais, France. In the First World War an airfield was established near Saint-Inglevert by the Royal Flying Corps, later passing to the Royal Air Force on formation.

In 1920, a civil airfield was established on a different site which was a designated customs airfield. During the Second World War, Saint-Inglevert was occupied by the Royal Air Force and the Armée de l'Air. The airfield was captured by the Germans towards the end of the Battle of France and occupied by the Luftwaffe. It was abandoned in 1941, but in 1943 field artillery units were based around the airfield as part of the Atlantic Wall. Although civil flying returned to Saint-Inglevert post-war, the airfield was abandoned in 1957 and returned to agriculture. It was reopened by l'Aéroclub du Boulonnais (English: Boulogne Aero Club) in 1986. (Full article...)
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Exit 1 of the station

Gardens by the Bay MRT station is an underground Mass Rapid Transit (MRT) station on the Thomson–East Coast line (TEL). Located in Marina South, Singapore, the station serves Gardens by the Bay and Marina Barrage.

First announced in August 2012 as part of the Thomson line (TSL), the station was constructed as part of TEL Phase 3 (TEL 3) with the merger of the TSL and the Eastern Region line. The station opened on 13 November 2022. Gardens by the Bay station features an Art-in-Transit Planting Shadows by Vertical Submarine. (Full article...)
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King's Highway 63, commonly referred to as Highway 63, is a provincially maintained highway in the Canadian province of Ontario. The 63.5-kilometre (39.5 mi) route travels from Highway 11 and Highway 17 (the Trans-Canada Highway) in North Bay northeast to the Ontario-Quebec provincial boundary, where it continues as Route 101 into Témiscaming.

The route was assumed in 1937, following the merger of the Department of Northern Development (DND) into the Department of Highways (DHO), predecessor to the modern Ministry of Transportation of Ontario (MTO). It travelled from what was then Highway 11 (Main Street) in downtown North Bay northeast to its present terminus. The highway follows the same route today, with the exception of the westernmost 1.9 kilometres (1.2 mi), which were transferred to the City of North Bay in 1998. (Full article...)
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Part of the aqueduct at Birkirkara

The Wignacourt Aqueduct (Maltese: L-Akwedott ta' Wignacourt) is a 17th-century aqueduct in Malta, which was built by the Order of Saint John to carry water from springs in Dingli and Rabat to the newly built capital city Valletta. The aqueduct carried water through underground pipes and over arched viaducts across depressions in the ground.

The first attempts to build the aqueduct were made by Grand Master Martin Garzez in 1596, but construction was suspended before being continued in 1610. The watercourse was inaugurated five years later on 21 April 1615. Several engineers took part in the project, including Bontadino de Bontadini, Giovanni Attard and Natale Tomasucci. The aqueduct was named after Grand Master Alof de Wignacourt, who partially financed its construction. (Full article...)
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K-51 is an approximately 79-mile-long (127 km) east–west state highway in the southwestern part of the U.S. state of Kansas. K-51 begins at the Colorado state line as a continuation of County Road M and travels eastward through portions of Morton, Stevens, and Seward counties before ending at U.S. Route 83 (US-83) north of Liberal. Along the way, it runs concurrently with US-56 from Rolla to Hugoton. Although K-51 travels through mostly rural farmlands, it does pass through the cities of Richfield, Rolla and Hugoton. The highway is also a two-lane road most of its length with the exception of short sections within Rolla and Hugoton, where it is four lanes.

Before state highways were numbered in Kansas there were auto trails. The eastern terminus (US-83) was part of the Atlantic and Pacific Highway. K-51 was first designated as a state highway in 1926, and at that time started as a continuation of Colorado Highway 51 and went east to K-25 (current K-27). Then by 1927, it ran from K-12 north of Rolla to K-27 in Richfield. Between 1930 and 1931, K-51 was replaced with an extension of K-12. Then on January 1, 1937, K-51 was re-established from the Colorado border east to K-27. Then by 1937, K-51 was extended further east to US-83, its modern-day routing. K-51 originally overlapped US-270, then in a May 18, 1981 resolution, the US-270 designation was removed. (Full article...)

Выбранная фотография

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двигатель АэроСпайк
Фото предоставлено: Центр космических полетов им. Маршалла
Испытательный запуск двух линейных двигателей XRS-2200 aerospike , изначально созданных для Lockheed Martin X-33 , многоразовой коммерческой ракеты-носителя нового поколения . Двигатель aerospike — это тип ракетного двигателя , который сохраняет свою эффективность в широком диапазоне высот за счет использования сопла aerospike. Аппарат с двигателем aerospike потребляет на 25–30 % меньше топлива на низких высотах , где большинство миссий испытывают наибольшую потребность в тяге .
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Continuous casting
Photo: Alchemist-hp
A disc of copper made by continuous casting, the process whereby molten metal is solidified into a "semifinished" state for subsequent rolling in the finishing mills. Continuous casting replaced the creation of ingots using stationary moulds. The process allows lower-cost production of metal sections with better quality, due to the inherently lower costs of continuous, standardised production of a product, as well as providing increased control over the process through automation. After casting, this disc was then etched to achieve its final state.
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Movable type
Photo credit: Willi Heidelbach
A composing stick and movable type, the system of printing and typography using pieces of metal type, made by casting from matrices struck by letterpunches. The text on the stick reads, "The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog and feels as if he were in the seventh heaven of typography together with Hermann Zapf, the most famous artist of the" [sic].
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Bucket-wheel excavators
Photograph: Raimond Spekking
Bucket-wheel excavators (BWEs) are heavy equipment used in surface mining. The primary function of a BWE is to act as a continuous digging machine in large-scale open pit mining operations. These BWEs were photographed at the Garzweiler surface mine in Germany.
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Telephone
Credit: Berthold Werner
A telephone, or phone, is a telecommunications device that converts sound, typically the human voice, into electronic signals suitable for transmission via cables or other transmission media over long distances through satellite.
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Building implosion
Photo credit: Heptagon
A multiple exposure composite image of the implosion of a chimney at the former brewery "Henninger" in Frankfurt am Main, Germany. This controlled demolition technique involves strategically placing explosive material and timing its detonation so that a structure collapses on itself in a matter of seconds, minimizing the physical damage to its immediate surroundings.
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Mary Jackson
Photograph credit: Langley Research Center; restored by Adam Cuerden
Mary Jackson (1921–2005) was an African American mathematician and aerospace engineer at the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics, which was succeeded by NASA in 1958. For most of her career, she worked at Langley Research Center in Hampton, Virginia; starting as a computer at the segregated West Area Computing division, she later took advanced engineering classes and, in 1958, became NASA's first black female engineer.

After 34 years at NASA, Jackson had earned the most senior engineering title available. Realizing that she could not earn further promotions without becoming a supervisor, she accepted a demotion to become a manager of the Federal Women's Program in the NASA Office of Equal Opportunity Programs, as well as of the Affirmative Action Program. In this role, she worked to influence both the hiring and promotion of women in NASA's science, engineering and mathematics careers. She was portrayed by Janelle Monáe as a lead character in the 2016 film Hidden Figures. This picture, taken in 1980, shows Jackson working at NASA Langley.
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Micrometer
Photograph: Lucasbosch
A micrometer is a device incorporating a calibrated screw, widely used for precise measurement of components in mechanical engineering and machining. Micrometers are usually, but not always, in the form of calipers (opposing ends joined by a frame). The spindle is a very accurately machined screw and the object to be measured is placed between the spindle and the anvil. The spindle is moved by turning the ratchet knob or thimble until the object to be measured is lightly touched by both the spindle and the anvil.
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Escalator
Credit: Stig Nygaard
An escalator is a moving staircase for carrying people between floors of a building. The device consists of a motor-driven chain of individual, linked steps that move up or down on tracks, allowing the step treads to remain horizontal.
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Nuclear weapon
Image credit: Fastfission
Schematic representation of the two methods with which to assemble an atomic bomb. An A-bomb produces its explosive energy through nuclear fission reactions alone. A mass of fissile material (enriched uranium or plutonium) is assembled into a supercritical mass—the amount of material needed to start an exponentially growing nuclear chain reaction—either by shooting one piece of sub-critical material into another (the "gun" method, shown on top here), or by compressing a sub-critical sphere of material using chemical explosives to many times its original density (the "implosion" method, at bottom).
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New York City Subway
Map: CountZ
A transit map of the New York City Subway, one of the oldest and most extensive public transportation systems in the world. Operated by the Metropolitan Transportation Authority of the State of New York, it has 468 stations in operation on 209 mi (337 km) of routes, with 842 miles (1,355 km) of track. It is the busiest rapid transit rail system by annual ridership in the Western Hemisphere, and fifth busiest in the world. Its stations are located throughout the boroughs of Manhattan, Brooklyn, Queens and the Bronx. Staten Island has its own rail line which is not part of the system, but is included in the map as well.
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Overhead power line
Credit: Simon Koopmann
An overhead power line is a structure used in electric power transmission and distribution to transmit electrical energy along large distances. It consists of one or more conductors suspended by towers or utility poles.
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Red telephone box
Photograph: Christoph Braun
A 'K6' model red telephone box outside of St Paul's Cathedral in London. These kiosks for a public telephone were designed by Sir Giles Gilbert Scott and painted "currant red" for easy visibility. Although such telephone boxes ceased production when the KX series was introduced in 1985, they remain a common sight in Britain and some of its colonies, and are considered a British cultural icon.
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George Washington Carver
Photo: Arthur Rothstein; Restoration: Lise Broer
A portrait of George Washington Carver, American scientist, botanist, educator and inventor, from 1942. Much of Carver's fame is based on his research into and promotion of alternative crops to cotton, such as peanuts and sweet potatoes. In addition to his work on agricultural extension education for purposes of advocacy of sustainable agriculture and appreciation of plants and nature, Carver's important accomplishments also included improvement of racial relations, mentoring children, poetry, painting, and religion. One of his most important roles was in undermining, through the fame of his achievements and many talents, the widespread stereotype of the time that the black race was intellectually inferior to the white race.
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Sukhoi Su-30
Photo: Sergey Krivchikov
The Sukhoi Su-30 is a twin-engine, two-seat supermanoeuverable fighter aircraft developed by Russia's Sukhoi Aviation Corporation. It is a multirole fighter for all-weather, air-to-air and air-to-surface deep interdiction missions. Its primary users are Russia, India, China, Venezuela, and Malaysia.
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Mars rovers
Photograph: NASA
Two Jet Propulsion Laboratory engineers stand with three vehicles, providing a size comparison of three generations of Mars rovers. Front and center is the flight spare for the first Mars rover, Sojourner, which landed on Mars in 1997 as part of the Mars Pathfinder Project. On the left is a Mars Exploration Rover test vehicle, a working sibling to Spirit and Opportunity, which landed on Mars in 2004. On the right is a test rover for the Mars Science Laboratory, which landed Curiosity on Mars in 2012.
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Laptop computer
Credit: Mike McGregor
The OLPC XO-1 is an inexpensive subnotebook laptop computer intended to be distributed to children in developing countries.
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Mark IV tank
Photograph: Peter Trimming
The Mark IV tank was introduced by the British in May 1917 to fight in World War I. The "female" version, as pictured here, was armed with five machine guns. Production of the Mark IV ceased at the end of the War in 1918. A small number served briefly with other combatants afterwards.

This Mark IV tank, on display in Ashford, Kent, was presented to the town after the end of World War I. The engine was removed to install an electricity substation inside it, though this substation was subsequently removed; the tank's interior is now empty.
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Walchensee Hydroelectric Power Station
Photograph credit: Diego Delso
The Walchensee Hydroelectric Power Station is a storage power station in Bavaria, Germany. The turbines, seen here, are fed by water from the Walchensee which is then released into the Kochelsee. The power station uses the hydraulic head of about 200 metres (660 ft) between the two natural lakes, and water from the Rißbach river is also used to augment the supply. The installed capacity is 124 MW with an annual production of 300 GWh; this is one of the largest of such power plants in Germany.
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Wheel
Credit: fir0002
A wheel is a circular component that is intended to rotate on an axial bearing. The wheel is one of the main components of the wheel and axle which is one of the six simple machines.

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Image 1Твердотельные воздушные аккумуляторы
Li-Air композиция (от Emerging technologies )
Image 2«СОЗДАЙ СВОЙ СОБСТВЕННЫЙ ТЕЛЕВИЗИОННЫЙ ПРИЕМНИК». Обложка журнала Science and Invention , ноябрь 1928 г. (из Invention )
Image 3Купол Флорентийского собора (из Истории техники )
Image 4Водяной шахтный подъемник, используемый для подъема руды, около 1556 г. (из «Истории техники» )
Image 5Наконечник топора из железа, датируемый шведским железным веком (из «Истории техники» )
Image 6Редкая фотография 1884 года, на которой показана экспериментальная запись голосовых паттернов с помощью фотографического процесса в лаборатории Александра Грэхема Белла в Вашингтоне, округ Колумбия. Многие из их экспериментальных разработок потерпели неудачу. (из книги «Изобретение »)
Image 7Проект летательного аппарата (ок. 1488 г.) да Винчи (из «Истории техники» )
Image 8Томас Эдисон со своим вторым фонографом , сфотографированный Левином Корбином Хэнди в Вашингтоне, апрель 1878 г. (из «Истории техники »)
Image 9Алессандро Вольта с первой электрической батареей . Вольта признан влиятельным изобретателем. (из Invention )
Image 10Разнообразие каменных орудий (из истории техники )
Image 11Сборочная линия Ford, 1913 год. Первой была линия сборки магнето . (из истории техники )
Image 12Пон-дю-Гар во Франции, римский акведук (из Истории техники )
Image 13Разделенное на отсеки водяное колесо , здесь его версия с верхним расположением (из истории техники )
Image 1430 крупнейших заявителей на патенты в области ИИ в 2016 году (из раздела Новые технологии )
Image 15Самовоспроизводящийся 3D-принтер (от Emerging technologies )
Image 16Колесо, изобретенное где-то до 4-го тысячелетия до н. э., является одной из самых распространенных и важных технологий. Эта деталь «Штандарта Ура », около 2500 г. до н. э., демонстрирует шумерскую колесницу . (из Истории технологий )
Image 17 Печатный станок Иоганна Гутенберга был признан самым важным изобретением второго тысячелетия. (из книги «Изобретение »)
Image 18 Топливный элемент NASA
Ячейка прямого метанола (от Emerging technologies )
Image 19Эрик М. К. Тигерстедт (1887–1925) был известен как пионер технологии звукозаписи . Тигерстедт в 1915 году. (из Invention )
Image 20Паровая машина Ньюкомена для откачки воды из шахт (из истории техники )
Image 21Стены в Саксайуамане (из истории технологий )
Image 22Клинок меча или кинжала позднего бронзового века (из «Истории технологий »)
Image 23Часы из Солсберийского собора , ок. 1386 г. (из «Истории техники» )
Image 24Сохранившаяся ракета (из Истории техники )
Image 253D-принтер (от Emerging technologies )
Image 26Сельское хозяйство предшествовало письменности в истории техники. (из Истории техники )
Image 27Электрические лампочки Эдисона 1879–80 (из Истории техники )

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Домашняя страница YouTube, посещенная без входа в систему в августе 2024 г.

YouTube — это онлайн-платформа для обмена видео, принадлежащая Google . YouTube был основан 14 февраля 2005 года Стивом Ченом , Чадом Херли и Джаведом Каримом , тремя бывшими сотрудниками PayPal . Штаб-квартира находится в Сан-Бруно, Калифорния , США. Это второй по посещаемости веб-сайт в мире после Google Search . В январе 2024 года у YouTube было более 2,7 миллиарда активных пользователей в месяц , которые в совокупности смотрели более одного миллиарда часов видео каждый день. По состоянию на май 2019 года^[update]видео загружались на платформу со скоростью более 500 часов контента в минуту, а по состоянию на 2021 год общее количество видео составляло около 14 миллиардов. ( Полная статья... )
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Musk in 2023

Elon Reeve Musk (/ˈiːlɒn/; born June 28, 1971) is a businessman and investor known for his key roles in the space company SpaceX and the automotive company Tesla, Inc. Other involvements include ownership of X Corp., the company that operates the social media platform X (formerly known as Twitter), and his role in the founding of the Boring Company, xAI, Neuralink, and OpenAI. He is one of the wealthiest individuals in the world; as of August 2024[update] Forbes estimates his net worth to be US$247 billion. (Full article...)
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ChatGPT is a generative artificial intelligence (AI) chatbot developed by OpenAI and launched in 2022. It is based on the GPT-3.5 large language model (LLM), and was later updated to use the GPT-4 architecture. ChatGPT can generate human-like conversational responses, and enables users to refine and steer a conversation towards a desired length, format, style, level of detail, and language. It is credited with accelerating the AI boom, which has led to ongoing rapid investment in and public attention to the field of artificial intelligence. Some observers have raised concern about the potential of ChatGPT and similar programs to displace human intelligence, enable plagiarism, or fuel misinformation. (Full article...)
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WhatsApp (officially WhatsApp Messenger) is an instant messaging (IM) and voice-over-IP (VoIP) service owned by technology conglomerate Meta. It allows users to send text, voice messages and video messages, make voice and video calls, and share images, documents, user locations, and other content. WhatsApp's client application runs on mobile devices, and can be accessed from computers. The service requires a cellular mobile telephone number to sign up. In January 2018, WhatsApp released a standalone business app called WhatsApp Business which can communicate with the standard WhatsApp client. (Full article...)
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Facebook is a social media and social networking service owned by American technology conglomerate Meta. Created in 2004 by Mark Zuckerberg with four other Harvard College students and roommates Eduardo Saverin, Andrew McCollum, Dustin Moskovitz, and Chris Hughes, its name derives from the face book directories often given to American university students. Membership was initially limited to Harvard students, gradually expanding to other North American universities. Since 2006, Facebook allows everyone to register from 13 years old, except in the case of a handful of nations, where the age limit is 14 years. As of December 2022^[update], Facebook claimed almost 3 billion monthly active users. As of October 2023, Facebook ranked as the third-most-visited website in the world, with 22.56% of its traffic coming from the United States. It was the most downloaded mobile app of the 2010s. (Full article...)
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The Google logo used since 2015

Google LLC (/ˈɡuːɡəl/ GOO-ghəl) is an American 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). It has been referred to as "the most powerful company in the world" and is one of the world's most valuable brands due to its market dominance, data collection, and technological advantages in the field of AI. Google's parent company, Alphabet Inc., is one of the five Big Tech companies, alongside Amazon, Apple, Meta, and Microsoft. (Full article...)
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An NEC pager branded by Deutsche Telekom for the Skyper pager service

A pager, also known as a beeper or bleeper, is a wireless telecommunications device that receives and displays alphanumeric or voice messages. One-way pagers can only receive messages, while response pagers and two-way pagers can also acknowledge, reply to, and originate messages using an internal transmitter. (Full article...)
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iOS 18 is the eighteenth and current major release of Apple's iOS operating system for the iPhone. It was announced on June 10, 2024, at the 2024 Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC). It was made publicly available on September 16, 2024, as a free software update for supported iOS devices. It is the direct successor to iOS 17 and was announced alongside iPadOS 18, macOS Sequoia, watchOS 11, visionOS 2, and tvOS 18. (Full article...)
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The Doppler building in Seattle,
Amazon's headquarters

Amazon.com, Inc., doing business as Amazon (/ˈæməzɒn/, AM-ə-zon; UK also /ˈæməzən/, AM-ə-zən), is an American multinational technology company, engaged in e-commerce, cloud computing, online advertising, digital streaming, and artificial intelligence. It is considered one of the Big Five American technology companies, the other four being Alphabet (parent company of Google), Apple, Meta (parent company of Facebook), and Microsoft. (Full article...)
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Apple Park, the company's headquarters, located in Cupertino, California, in Silicon Valley

Apple Inc. is an American multinational corporation and technology company headquartered and incorporated in Cupertino, California, in Silicon Valley. It is best known for its consumer electronics, software, and services. Founded in 1976 as Apple Computer Company by Steve Jobs, Steve Wozniak and Ronald Wayne, the company was incorporated by Jobs and Wozniak as Apple Computer, Inc. the following year. It was renamed Apple Inc. in 2007 as the company had expanded its focus from computers to consumer electronics. Apple is the largest technology company by revenue, with US$383.29 billion in 2023. (Full article...)