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  2. Alarm clock - Wikipedia

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    This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 23 January 2025. Type of clock A traditional wind-up (key-wound), mechanical spring-powered alarm clock An alarm clock or alarm is a clock that is designed to alert an individual or group of people at a specified time. The primary function of these clocks is to awaken people from their night's sleep or ...

  3. Vector clock - Wikipedia

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    A vector clock of a system of N processes is an array/vector of N logical clocks, one clock per process; a local "largest possible values" copy of the global clock-array is kept in each process. Denote V C i {\displaystyle VC_{i}} as the vector clock maintained by process i {\displaystyle i} , the clock updates proceed as follows: [ 1 ]

  4. Wikipedia : Requested articles/Applied arts and sciences ...

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    Disco Project - erlang/python mapreduce+ framework; DNSKong - "is an Internet privacy filter, which uses simple text files. The program filters Domain Name Server requests on a local machine or home router. DNSKong comes in a version 1 with visual cues and version 2 w/o visual cues and more advanced configuration.";

  5. Wikipedia:Vital articles/Level/5/Technology - Wikipedia

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    Vital articles is a list of subjects for which Wikipedia should have corresponding high-quality articles. It serves as a centralized watchlist to track the status of Wikipedia's most essential articles.

  6. Grace Hopper - Wikipedia

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    Grace Brewster Hopper (née Murray; December 9, 1906 – January 1, 1992) was an American computer scientist, mathematician, and United States Navy rear admiral. [1] She was a pioneer of computer programming.

  7. List of Google April Fools' Day jokes - Wikipedia

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    Google announced a joint project with the Virgin Group to establish a permanent human settlement on Mars. This operation has been named Project Virgle. [ 33 ] The announcement includes videos of Richard Branson (founder of Virgin Group) as well as Larry Page and Sergey Brin (the founders of Google) on YouTube, talking about Virgle. [ 34 ]

  8. List of TCP and UDP port numbers - Wikipedia

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    Streamlit Open-source Python framework for machine learning and data science 8530: Unofficial: Windows Server Update Services over HTTP, when using the default role installation settings in Windows Server 2012 and later versions. [354] [355] 8531: Unofficial

  9. Computer - Wikipedia

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    A human computer, with microscope and calculator, 1952. It was not until the mid-20th century that the word acquired its modern definition; according to the Oxford English Dictionary, the first known use of the word computer was in a different sense, in a 1613 book called The Yong Mans Gleanings by the English writer Richard Brathwait: "I haue [] read the truest computer of Times, and the best ...