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Linux ( / ˈlɪnʊks /, LIN-uuks) [11] is both an open-source Unix-like kernel and a generic name for a family of open-source Unix-like operating systems based on the Linux kernel, [12] an operating system kernel first released on September 17, 1991, by Linus Torvalds.
Orphan Black: Echoes. Orphan Black: Echoes is a Canadian science fiction thriller television series created by Anna Fishko based on Orphan Black created by John Fawcett and Graeme Manson. [1] The series stars Krysten Ritter and is set in 2052 in the same universe as Orphan Black. [2] All 10 episodes of season one premiered on November 3, 2023 ...
List of ISO 639 language codes ISO 639 is a standardized nomenclature used to classify languages. [1] Each language is assigned a two-letter (set 1) and three-letter lowercase abbreviation (sets 2–5). [2] Part 1 of the standard, ISO 639-1 defines the two-letter codes, and Part 3 (2007), ISO 639-3, defines the three-letter codes, aiming to cover all known natural languages, largely ...
Unicode in Microsoft Windows. Microsoft was one of the first companies to implement Unicode in their products. Windows NT was the first operating system that used "wide characters" in system calls. Using the (now obsolete) UCS-2 encoding scheme at first, it was upgraded to the variable-width encoding UTF-16 starting with Windows 2000, allowing ...
2020 Twitter account hijacking. At least 130 accounts affected. The bitcoin addresses involved received about US$ 110,000 in bitcoin transactions. On July 15, 2020, between 20:00 and 22:00 UTC, 130 high-profile Twitter accounts were reportedly compromised by outside parties to promote a bitcoin scam. [1] [2] Twitter and other media sources ...
Juneteenth, officially Juneteenth National Independence Day, is a federal holiday in the United States. It is celebrated annually on June 19 to commemorate the ending of slavery in the United States. The holiday's name is a portmanteau of the words "June" and "nineteenth", as it was on June 19, 1865, when Major General Gordon Granger ordered the final enforcement of the Emancipation ...
Windows XP is a major release of Microsoft 's Windows NT operating system. It was released to manufacturing on August 24, 2001, and later to retail on October 25, 2001. It is a direct upgrade to its predecessors, Windows 2000 for high-end and business users and Windows Me for home users. Development of Windows XP began in the late 1990s under ...
Google Chrome is a web browser developed by Google. It was first released in 2008 for Microsoft Windows, built with free software components from Apple WebKit and Mozilla Firefox. [16] Versions were later released for Linux, macOS, iOS, and also for Android, where it is the default browser. [17] The browser is also the main component of ChromeOS, where it serves as the platform for web ...