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  2. Planned obsolescence - Wikipedia

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    In these cases of planned obsolescence, there is an information asymmetry between the producer, who knows how long the product was designed to last, and the customer, who does not. When a market becomes more competitive, product lifespans tend to increase.

  3. List of built-in iOS apps - Wikipedia

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    Screenshot of an iOS 17 home screen, displaying various built-in apps. Apple Inc. develops many apps for iOS that come bundled by default or installed through system updates. . Several of the default apps found on iOS have counterparts on Apple's other operating systems such as macOS, iPadOS, watchOS, and tvOS, which are often modified versions of or similar to the iOS applicati

  4. Panopticon - Wikipedia

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    The panopticon is a design of institutional building with an inbuilt system of control, originated by the English philosopher and social theorist Jeremy Bentham in the 18th century. The concept is to allow all prisoners of an institution to be observed by a single corrections officer , without the inmates knowing whether or not they are being ...

  5. All-in-one computer - Wikipedia

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    Dell Inspiron One 23 Touch, an all-in-one PC from 2012. An all-in-one computer (also called an AIO or all-in-one PC) is a type of personal computer that integrates the computer components, such as the CPU, monitor, and speakers, into a single unit.

  6. Sound card - Wikipedia

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    A sound card (also known as an audio card) is an internal expansion card that provides input and output of audio signals to and from a computer under the control of computer programs.

  7. Wine (software) - Wikipedia

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    While most office software does not make use of complex GPU-accelerated graphics APIs, computer games do. To run these games properly, Wine would have to forward the drawing instructions to the host OS, and even translate them to something the host can understand. DirectX is a collection of Microsoft APIs for rendering, audio and input.

  8. User-defined function - Wikipedia

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    In the COBOL programming language, a user-defined function is an entity that is defined by the user by specifying a FUNCTION-ID paragraph. A user-defined function must return a value by specifying the RETURNING phrase of the procedure division header and they are invoked using the function-identifier syntax.

  9. Tenement - Wikipedia

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    Gladstone's Land is a tenement from 1617 in the Old Town, Edinburgh [6]. One of the earliest examples of a tenement is Morris Castle in Swansea, Wales.The castle was built sometime before 1775 by Sir John Morris to house workers in the rapidly industrializing area.