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  2. Cyclic redundancy check - Wikipedia

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    Cyclic redundancy check. A cyclic redundancy check ( CRC) is an error-detecting code commonly used in digital networks and storage devices to detect accidental changes to digital data. [1] [2] Blocks of data entering these systems get a short check value attached, based on the remainder of a polynomial division of their contents.

  3. Microsoft account - Wikipedia

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    Microsoft account logo. A Microsoft account or MSA (previously known as Microsoft Passport,.NET Passport, and Windows Live ID) is a single sign-on personal user account for Microsoft customers to log in to consumer Microsoft services (like Outlook.com), devices running on one of Microsoft's current operating systems (e.g. Microsoft Windows computers and tablets, Xbox consoles), and Microsoft ...

  4. Social network aggregation - Wikipedia

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    Social network aggregation is the process of collecting content from multiple social network services into a unified presentation. Examples of social network aggregators include Hootsuite or FriendFeed, which may pull together information into a single location [1] or help a user consolidate multiple social networking profiles into a single ...

  5. Wikipedia:Subpages - Wikipedia

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    Except in the main namespace ( article namespace ), where the subpage feature has been disabled in the English Wikipedia, subpages are pages separated with a "/" (a slash) from their 'parent' page. Making a new [ [link]] that begins with a / (slash) is the common way to start a subpage. The page to which this link points is considered ...

  6. PayPal - Wikipedia

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    eBay, PayPal, Kijiji and StubHub, 500 King Street West, Toronto, April 2014. PayPal Holdings, Inc. is an American multinational financial technology company operating an online payments system in the majority of countries that support online money transfers; it serves as an electronic alternative to traditional paper methods such as checks and money orders.

  7. Offender profiling - Wikipedia

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    Offender profiling. Thomas Bond (1841–1901), one of the precursors of offender profiling [1] Offender profiling, also known as criminal profiling, is an investigative strategy used by law enforcement agencies to identify likely suspects and has been used by investigators to link cases that may have been committed by the same perpetrator. [2]

  8. Aluminium - Wikipedia

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    Recycling was a low-profile activity until the late 1960s, when the growing use of aluminium beverage cans brought it to public awareness. Recycling involves melting the scrap, a process that requires only 5% of the energy used to produce aluminium from ore, though a significant part (up to 15% of the input material) is lost as dross (ash-like ...

  9. Hyperlink - Wikipedia

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    An example of a hyperlink as commonly seen in a web browser, with a mouse pointer hovering above it Visual abstraction of several documents being connected by hyperlinks. In computing, a hyperlink, or simply a link, is a digital reference to data that the user can follow or be guided to by clicking or tapping.