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  2. Social media - Wikipedia

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    The PLATO system was launched in 1960 at the University of Illinois and subsequently commercially marketed by Control Data Corporation.It offered early forms of social media features with innovations such as Notes, PLATO's message-forum application; TERM-talk, its instant-messaging feature; Talkomatic, perhaps the first online chat room; News Report, a crowdsourced online newspaper, and blog ...

  3. Lidar - Wikipedia

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    Lidar (/ ˈ l aɪ d ɑːr /, also LIDAR, LiDAR or LADAR, an acronym of "light detection and ranging" [1] or "laser imaging, detection, and ranging" [2]) is a method for determining ranges by targeting an object or a surface with a laser and measuring the time for the reflected light to return to the receiver.

  4. 2017 Equifax data breach - Wikipedia

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    An Equifax internal audit in 2015 showed that there was a large backlog of vulnerabilities to patch, that Equifax was not following its own timescales on patching them, that IT staff did not have a comprehensive asset inventory, that Equifax did not consider how critical an IT asset was when prioritising patches, and that the patching process worked on an 'Honour system'.

  5. Open source - Wikipedia

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    Open source as a term emerged in the late 1990s by a group of people in the free software movement who were critical of the political agenda and moral philosophy implied in the term "free software" and sought to reframe the discourse to reflect a more commercially minded position. [14]

  6. Trunked radio system - Wikipedia

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    In essence, a trunked radio system is a packet switching computer network. Users' radios send data packets to a computer, operating on a dedicated frequency — called a control channel — to request communication on a specific talkgroup.

  7. Automatic number-plate recognition - Wikipedia

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    The software aspect of the system runs on standard home computer hardware and can be linked to other applications or databases. It first uses a series of image manipulation techniques to detect, normalize and enhance the image of the number plate, and then optical character recognition (OCR) to extract the alphanumerics of the license plate ...

  8. Educational technology - Wikipedia

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    Educational technology (commonly abbreviated as edutech, or edtech) is the combined use of computer hardware, software, and educational theory and practice to facilitate learning.

  9. Nation Media Group - Wikipedia

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    Nation Media Group (NMG), formerly known as East African Newspapers (Nation Series) Ltd, is an East African media group based in Kenya and listed on the Nairobi Stock Exchange. It is owned by Aga Khan IV .