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  2. Digital divide - Wikipedia

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    The digital divide is the unequal access to digital technology, including smartphones, tablets, laptops, and the internet. [1] [2] The digital divide worsens inequality around access to information and resources.

  3. Ubiquitous computing - Wikipedia

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    Ubiquitous computing (or "ubicomp") is a concept in software engineering, hardware engineering and computer science where computing is made to appear seamlessly anytime and everywhere.

  4. Optical character recognition - Wikipedia

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    Video of the process of scanning and real-time optical character recognition (OCR) with a portable scanner. Optical character recognition or optical character reader (OCR) is the electronic or mechanical conversion of images of typed, handwritten or printed text into machine-encoded text, whether from a scanned document, a photo of a document, a scene photo (for example the text on signs and ...

  5. Forensic psychology - Wikipedia

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    Forensic psychology is the application of scientific knowledge and methods to help ... The vague nature of this description causes this definition to only be used in ...

  6. Dual-coding theory - Wikipedia

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    Visual Storytelling by Suhani Gowan. [1]Dual-coding theory is a theory of cognition that suggests that the mind processes information along two different channels; verbal and nonverbal.

  7. Deepfake - Wikipedia

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    Technology steadily improved during the 20th century, and more quickly with the advent of digital video. Deepfake technology has been developed by researchers at academic institutions beginning in the 1990s, and later by amateurs in online communities. [14] [15] More recently the methods have been adopted by industry. [16]

  8. Sound - Wikipedia

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    Furthermore, humans have developed culture and technology (such as music, telephone and radio) that allows them to generate, record, transmit, and broadcast sound. Noise is a term often used to refer to an unwanted sound. In science and engineering, noise is an undesirable component that obscures a wanted signal.

  9. Adjustment (psychology) - Wikipedia

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    In psychology, adjustment is the condition of a person who is able to adapt to changes in their physical, occupational, and social environment. In other words, adjustment refers to the behavioural process of balancing conflicting needs, or needs challenged by obstacles in the environment.