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New Horizons is an interplanetary space probe launched as a part of NASA's New Frontiers program. Launched in 2006, it became the first spacecraft to perform...

This is a list of TCP and UDP port numbers used by protocols for operation of network applications. The Transmission Control Protocol (TCP) and the User...

Linux Mint is a community-developed Linux distribution for x86-64 systems, based on Ubuntu. First released in 2006, Linux Mint is often noted for its ease...

Smith & Wesson Brands, Inc. (S&W) is an American firearm manufacturer headquartered in Maryville, Tennessee, United States. Smith & Wesson was founded...

Internet radio, also known as online radio, web radio, net radio, streaming radio, e-radio and IP radio, is a digital audio service transmitted via the...

A wireless LAN (WLAN) is a wireless computer network that links two or more devices using wireless communication to form a local area network (LAN) within...

Phoenix was an uncrewed space probe that landed on the surface of Mars on May 25, 2008, and operated until November 2, 2008. Phoenix was operational on...

The Google Lunar X Prize (GLXP) was a 2007–2018 inducement prize space competition organized by the X Prize Foundation, and sponsored by Google. The challenge...

The MacPherson strut is a type of automotive suspension system that uses the top of a telescopic damper as the upper steering pivot. It is widely used...

OpenStack is a free, open standard cloud computing platform. It is mostly deployed as infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS) in both public and private clouds...

Broadcom Corporation was an American fabless semiconductor company that made products for the wireless and broadband communication industry. It was acquired...

The Beagle 2 is an inoperative British Mars lander that was transported by the European Space Agency's 2003 Mars Express mission. It was intended to conduct...

A space settlement (also called a space habitat, spacestead, space city or space colony) is a settlement in outer space, sustaining more extensively habitation...

An emergency position-indicating radio beacon (EPIRB) is a type of emergency locator beacon for commercial and recreational boats; it is a portable, battery-powered...

The French telephone numbering plan is used in Metropolitan France, French overseas departments and some overseas collectivities. Since 1996, Metropolitan...

Notable spaceflight activities in 2017 included the maiden orbital flight of India's Geosynchronous Satellite Launch Vehicle Mark III (also called LVM3)...

The Disk II Floppy Disk Subsystem, often rendered as Disk ][, is a 5 +1⁄4-inch floppy disk drive designed by Steve Wozniak at the recommendation of Mike...

The following tables compare general and technical features of notable standalone (offline) email client programs. Basic general information about the...

Machine to machine (M2M) is direct communication between devices using any communications channel, including wired and wireless. M2M communication can...

In software development, distributed version control (also known as distributed revision control) is a form of version control in which the complete codebase...