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  2. Hard disk drive failure - Wikipedia

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    A rising number of bad sectors can be a sign of a failing hard drive, but because the hard drive automatically adds them to its own growth defect table, [4] they may not become evident to utilities such as ScanDisk unless the utility can catch them before the hard drive's defect management system does, or the backup sectors held in reserve by ...

  3. Smartphone - Wikipedia

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    These include a sealed body that does not allow replacing the battery, a lack of the physical audio connector (since the iPhone 7 from 2016), a screen with a cut-out area at the top for the earphone and front-facing camera and sensors (colloquially known as "notch"; since the iPhone X from 2017), the exclusion of a charging wall adapter from ...

  4. Apple Inc. - Wikipedia

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    From 2011 to 2012, Apple released the iPhone 4s [133] and iPhone 5, [134] which featured improved cameras, an intelligent software assistant named Siri, and cloud-synced data with iCloud; the third-and fourth-generation iPads, which featured Retina displays; [135] [136] and the iPad Mini, which featured a 7.9-inch screen in contrast to the iPad ...

  5. Mac (computer) - Wikipedia

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    Macs are deeply integrated with other Apple devices, including the iPhone and iPad, through Continuity features like Handoff, Sidecar, Universal Control, and Universal Clipboard. [200] The first version of Mac OS X, version 10.0, was released in March 2001. [201] Subsequent releases introduced major changes and features to the operating system.

  6. Closed-circuit television - Wikipedia

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    [10] In the United States, the first commercial closed-circuit television system became available in 1949 from Remington Rand and designed by CBS Laboratories, called "Vericon". [11] Vericon was advertised as not requiring a government permit due to the system using cabled connections between camera and monitor rather than over-the-air ...

  7. Liquid-crystal display - Wikipedia

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    A stuck pixel will glow with color even on an all-black screen, while a dead one will always remain black. Subject to burn-in effect, although the cause differs from CRT and the effect may not be permanent, a static image can cause burn-in in a matter of hours in badly designed displays.

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  9. Google Maps - Wikipedia

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    Google Maps first started as a C++ program designed by two Danish brothers, Lars and Jens Eilstrup Rasmussen, and Noel Gordon and Stephen Ma, at the Sydney-based company Where 2 Technologies, which was founded in early 2003.