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  2. Cursor (user interface) - Wikipedia

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    A cursor is a name given to the transparent slide engraved with a hairline used to mark a point on a slide rule. The term was then transferred to computers through analogy. Cursor on a slide rule. On 14 November 1963, while attending a conference on computer graphics in Reno, Nevada, Douglas Engelbart of Augmentation Research Center (ARC) first ...

  3. Roblox - Wikipedia

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    Type. Game creation system, massively multiplayer online game. Roblox (/ ˈroʊblɒks / ROH-bloks) is an online game platform and game creation system developed by Roblox Corporation that allows users to program and play games created by themselves or other users. Created by David Baszucki and Erik Cassel in 2004 and released in 2006, the ...

  4. Universal Windows Platform apps - Wikipedia

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    Right: Metro-style app; entirely composed of contents. Universal Windows Platform (UWP) apps[1] (formerly named Windows Store apps, Metro-style apps and Modern apps) [2] are applications that can be used across all compatible Microsoft Windows devices. They are primarily purchased and downloaded via the Microsoft Store, Microsoft's digital ...

  5. Computer mouse - Wikipedia

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    A computer mouse (plural mice, also mouses) [ nb 1 ] is a hand-held pointing device that detects two-dimensional motion relative to a surface. This motion is typically translated into the motion of the pointer (called a cursor) on a display, which allows a smooth control of the graphical user interface of a computer.

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

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    Chrome Multitask Mode makes it possible to browse the web with two or more mice at the same time. Clicking the "Try Multitask Mode" button initially creates one fake mouse that moves around the screen, and over time adds several more and at one point a giant cursor even appears. Clicking the "Exit Multitask Mode" button shows an April Fools ...

  7. American Airlines ex-mechanic gets 9 years prison for ... - AOL

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    Prosecutors said custom officers found 10 cocaine bricks weighing 25.6 pounds in an electronics compartment beneath the cockpit, and replaced them with fake bricks sprayed with a substance that ...

  8. List of licensed and localized editions of Monopoly : USA

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    The other eight tokens are: a computer desktop (tower, monitor and keyboard), a pointing hand (such as the icon that appears in many web browsers when the mouse pointer hovers over a hyperlink), a surfboard, a flat panel monitor, a mouse (made to look like a real mouse, instead of a computer mouse), another hand holding an envelope (supposedly ...

  9. Mouse tracking - Wikipedia

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    Mouse tracking (also known as cursor tracking) is the use of software to collect users' mouse cursor positions on the computer. [1] This goal is to automatically gather richer information about what people are doing, typically to improve the design of an interface. Often this is done on the Web and can supplement eye tracking in some situations ...