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  2. Alan Turing - Wikipedia

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    English Heritage plaque in Maida Vale, London marking Turing's birthplace in 1912. Turing was born in Maida Vale, London, while his father, Julius Mathison Turing, was on leave from his position with the Indian Civil Service (ICS) of the British Raj government at Chatrapur, then in the Madras Presidency and presently in Odisha state, in India.

  3. Political polarization - Wikipedia

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    Studies undertaken in the U.S. (2019) and the UK (2022) have found that political polarization is generally less acute among the public than is portrayed in the media. [52] [53] Moreover, non-nuanced reporting by the media about poll data and public opinions can even aggravate political polarization. [54]

  4. Computational linguistics - Wikipedia

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    Enabled to learn as children might, models were created based on an affordance model in which mappings between actions, perceptions, and effects were created and linked to spoken words. Crucially, these robots were able to acquire functioning word-to-meaning mappings without needing grammatical structure.

  5. SARS-CoV-2 - Wikipedia

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    Epidemiological studies estimate that in the period between December 2019 and September 2020 each infection resulted in an average of 2.4–3.4 new infections when no members of the community were immune and no preventive measures were taken. [21]

  6. TikTok - Wikipedia

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    TikTok Ltd was incorporated in the Cayman Islands and is based in both Singapore and Los Angeles. [12] It owns four entities that are based respectively in the United States, Australia (which also runs the New Zealand business), United Kingdom (also owns subsidiaries in the European Union), and Singapore (owns operations in Southeast Asia and India).

  7. Timeline of the COVID-19 pandemic in 2019 - Wikipedia

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    A September 2020 review noted the hypothetical possibility that the COVID-19 infection had already spread to Europe in 2019 by presumptive evidences including pneumonia case numbers and radiology in France and Italy in November and December. [1]

  8. Question (character) - Wikipedia

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    The Question is a name used by several fictional characters appearing in American comic books published by DC Comics.Created by Steve Ditko, the Question first appeared in Charlton Comics' Blue Beetle #1 (June 1967), and was acquired by DC Comics in the early 1980s and incorporated into the DC Universe.

  9. 20192020 Hong Kong protests - Wikipedia

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    Tsang Chi-kin, 18, was shot in the chest by police in 2019. On 1 October 2019, mass protests and violent conflict occurred between the protesters and police in various districts of Hong Kong during the 70th anniversary of the founding of the People's Republic of China.