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2. Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

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   Wikipedia is written by volunteer editors and hosted by the Wikimedia Foundation, a non-profit organization that also hosts a range of other volunteer projects : Commons. Free media repository. MediaWiki.

3. QR code - Wikipedia

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   The QR code system was invented in 1994, at the Denso Wave automotive products company, in Japan. [5] [6] [7] The initial alternating-square design presented by the team of researchers, headed by Masahiro Hara, was influenced by the black counters and the white counters played on a Go board; [8] the pattern of position detection was found and determined by applying the least-used ratio (1:1:3 ...

4. Year 2000 problem - Wikipedia

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   The year 2000 problem[ 1], or simply Y2K, comprises potential computer errors related to the formatting and storage of calendar data for dates in and after the year 2000. Many programs represented four-digit years with only the final two digits, making the year 2000 indistinguishable from 1900. Computer systems' inability to distinguish dates ...

5. Spotify - Wikipedia

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   Download QR code; Wikidata item; ... Free: 393 million; Paying: ... "Unlike buying a CD or download, streaming is not a one-off payment. Hundreds of millions of ...

6. 'Agency in crisis': Secret Service has decade-old staffing ...

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   The agency’s staffing problems do not appear to be caused by a lack of funding. The budget of the Secret Service nearly doubled over the last decade. It jumped from around $1.8 billion in fiscal ...

7. Parallel computing - Wikipedia

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   Parallel computing. Large supercomputers such as IBM's Blue Gene/P are designed to heavily exploit parallelism. Parallel computing is a type of computation in which many calculations or processes are carried out simultaneously. [ 1] Large problems can often be divided into smaller ones, which can then be solved at the same time.