Newest first

• x86 debug registers were added in the i386. 13:43, 23 April 2024 (UTC)
• EAD sockets made 10BASE-T networking more reliable. 14:07, 17 March 2024 (UTC)
• Toybox is a BusyBox alternative. 17:57, 22 February 2024 (UTC)
• Mercurial cores make stilent mistakes. ^[1] ~ Kvng ( talk) 13:49, 16 February 2024 (UTC)
• uname prints name and other information about a UNIX machine. 16:35, 29 January 2024 (UTC)
• David L. Mills has died. 22:25, 22 January 2024 (UTC)
• Copyists counted letters to avoid errors. 16:23, 22 December 2023 (UTC)
• A Negative (photography) has an orange hue due to quirky behaviors of pigments. 02:21, 18 December 2023 (UTC)
• A Memory barrier enforces memory order of access. 22:06, 8 December 2023 (UTC)
• A directed broadcast can be sent to a different subnet. 19:30, 7 December 2023 (UTC)
• There's a live stream from ISS. 17:54, 4 December 2023 (UTC)
• Multilevel feedback queue is used in most modern operating systems. 15:37, 4 December 2023 (UTC)
• Master Password (algorithm) does not require passwords to be stored anywhere. 16:03, 26 November 2023 (UTC)
• IBM 5100 was an early portable computer. 14:23, 7 November 2023 (UTC)
• Kate Schellenbach was a founding member of the Beastie Boys 17:01, 5 November 2023 (UTC)
• Ayrton–Perry winding has low parasitic inductance and capacitance. 14:47, 16 October 2023 (UTC)
• An Oversampled binary image sensor is analogous to Delta-sigma modulation. 14:45, 12 October 2023 (UTC)
• News organizations have APIs. 14:42, 28 September 2023 (UTC)
• Tanya Donelly was in The Breeders. ~ Kvng ( talk) 14:53, 6 September 2023 (UTC)
• Android users can join FaceTime calls. ^[2] 20:34, 5 September 2023 (UTC)
• A secret Cambie Climbing Tree exists in Vancouver. 00:51, 30 August 2023 (UTC)
• Communication distance over single-mode optical fiber is limited by chromatic dispersion. A dispersion compensator can help. 22:44, 9 August 2023 (UTC)
• Image persistence on Video camera tube § Vidicon is due to excess charge. 14:26, 7 August 2023 (UTC)
• ReplayGain 3.0 implementations exist. 20:03, 6 August 2023 (UTC)
• Pegcetacoplan can now be used to treat Geographic atrophy. 14:17, 13 June 2023 (UTC)
• Strandbloemen can be exchanged for sea shells 14:25, 10 June 2023 (UTC)
• Lombard effect creates louder voices in a noisy room. 14:35, 9 June 2023 (UTC)
• The Grateful Dead jammed on Audio feedback 15:21, 12 May 2023 (UTC)
• A pivot language avoids a combinatorial explosion in translation. 13:11, 5 May 2023 (UTC)
• Aaron Dessner is a soccer fan. 23:17, 17 April 2023 (UTC)
• Tidal acceleration leads to Tidal locking 11:47, 12 April 2023 (UTC)
• The Robustness principle has a downside. 13:44, 9 April 2023 (UTC)
• JPEG 2000 uses wavelet compression 18:03, 14 March 2023 (UTC)
• Air data computer interprets Pitot-static system readings 14:11, 13 March 2023 (UTC)
• Audiovisualogy is the study of the audiovisual media
• BASIC stands for Beginners' All-purpose Symbolic Instruction Code. 17:00, 7 January 2023 (UTC)
• HDMI supports native Direct Stream Digital. 16:44, 7 January 2023 (UTC)
• In a raster bar the beam is on during horizontal retrace. 18:47, 6 January 2023 (UTC)
• A 3rd bridge creates a gamelan sound 15:57, 3 January 2023 (UTC)
• Manhattan Beach (Denver) was an early amusement park 14:56, 25 November 2022 (UTC)
• Hannah Montana used Mira Costa High School as the image of the school portrayed in the TV show 14:50, 25 November 2022 (UTC)

Oldest first

• 10GBASE-T1 on a single pair for automotive applications ~ Kvng ( talk) 22:12, 15 March 2021 (UTC)
• Backing vocalist, Backup vocalist and Background vocalist are the same thing with controversy ~ Kvng ( talk) 22:30, 16 March 2021 (UTC)
• There are 216 Web colors because 6 x 6 x 6 = 216. ~ Kvng ( talk) 17:44, 28 March 2021 (UTC)
• A parabolic loudspeaker produces plane as opposed to spherical waves. ~ Kvng ( talk) 13:08, 31 March 2021 (UTC)
• Fldigi emulates a modem in software with a sound card. ~ Kvng ( talk) 15:48, 9 April 2021 (UTC)
• A box is a rectangular prism. ~ Kvng ( talk) 14:27, 11 April 2021 (UTC)
• Component video cables are colorful but don't carry RGB color model. ~ Kvng ( talk) 15:45, 12 April 2021 (UTC)
• The Republic of China Navy protects Taiwan from China's People's Liberation Army Navy. ~ Kvng ( talk) 13:02, 21 April 2021 (UTC)
• The United States Army Aviation and Missile Command tried to control missiles remotely using a fiber optic cable spooled from the missile to the ground. ~ Kvng ( talk) 21:34, 26 April 2021 (UTC)
• Broadcatching is a cute word. ~ Kvng ( talk) 15:14, 1 May 2021 (UTC)
• The first seismoscope detected the direction of earthquakes. ~ Kvng ( talk) 15:36, 1 May 2021 (UTC)
• The Elevator algorithm is superior to Shortest seek first. ~ Kvng ( talk) 15:21, 8 May 2021 (UTC)
• Constant-time programming can avoid a Timing attack. ~ Kvng ( talk) 14:24, 9 May 2021 (UTC)
• Leonhard Euler had eye trouble. ~ Kvng ( talk) 15:08, 10 May 2021 (UTC)
• You can steal cars with a buffered replay attack. ~ Kvng ( talk) 21:55, 10 May 2021 (UTC)
• The first ARM processor was designed for the Acorn Archimedes. ~ Kvng ( talk) 13:51, 11 May 2021 (UTC)
• A human harmonium made from production equipment is featured in I'm Not in Love. ~ Kvng ( talk) 12:56, 13 May 2021 (UTC)
• People avoid ads through banner blindness. ~ Kvng ( talk) 13:26, 24 May 2021 (UTC)
• GIF is limited to a palette of 256 colors. ~ Kvng ( talk) 16:44, 24 May 2021 (UTC)
• The KVLY-TV mast in ND was, for some time, the tallest structure in the world. ~ Kvng ( talk) 12:44, 25 May 2021 (UTC)
• Dead water stalls boats. ~ Kvng ( talk) 15:44, 14 June 2021 (UTC)
• A Reverberation room is not the same as an Echo chamber. ~ Kvng ( talk) 12:56, 22 June 2021 (UTC)
• Small form-factor pluggable transceivers are right-handed pitchers. ~ Kvng ( talk) 14:33, 26 June 2021 (UTC)
• Level 3 Communications was acquired by CenturyLink which is now Lumen Technologies ~ Kvng ( talk) 14:29, 27 June 2021 (UTC)
• Camogie is an Irish stick-and-ball team sport played by women. ~ Kvng ( talk) 18:10, 30 June 2021 (UTC)
• Micro stuttering is a form of video jitter. ~ Kvng ( talk) 15:31, 3 July 2021 (UTC)
• The Jesus nut holds the blades on a heliocopter. ~ Kvng ( talk) 13:22, 12 July 2021 (UTC)
• Gravitational compression leads to thermal runaway in stars. ~ Kvng ( talk) 13:35, 5 August 2021 (UTC)
• The Audion was invented in 1906 but its potential as an amplifier was not discovered until 1912. ~ Kvng ( talk) 14:50, 14 August 2021 (UTC)
• Symphony Hall, Birmingham has a 450,000 cu ft reverberation chamber directly attached. ~ Kvng ( talk) 14:55, 17 August 2021 (UTC)
• VXA was a successor to Data8 created by Exabyte (company). ~ Kvng ( talk) 15:18, 22 August 2021 (UTC)
• Cathode-ray tubes have a rim band tight and glued around the display to prevent the tube from imploding if the front is broken. ~ Kvng ( talk) 16:36, 23 August 2021 (UTC)
• Mini-TOSLINK and 3.5 mm phone jack can use the same hole. ~ Kvng ( talk) 12:58, 24 August 2021 (UTC)
• IEEE 802.1X, originally designed for IEEE 802.3 networks, is the basis for Extensible Authentication Protocol used on IEEE 802.11 networks. ~ Kvng ( talk) 23:38, 3 September 2021 (UTC)
• A swap chain is a list of framebuffers. ~ Kvng ( talk) 12:47, 21 September 2021 (UTC)
• In the geocentric model, the Earth supports the universe. ~ Kvng ( talk) 14:15, 26 September 2021 (UTC)
• An oligopoly falls short of a monopoly. ~ Kvng ( talk) 15:32, 7 October 2021 (UTC)
• The two-hole cassette tape beat out the single-hole cassette as a commercial format. ~ Kvng ( talk) 13:09, 8 October 2021 (UTC)
• Bodies closer than the Roche limit will be torn apart by tidal forces. ~ Kvng ( talk) 13:53, 11 October 2021 (UTC)
• Acoustic suspension uses air as a spring to support the speaker driver. ~ Kvng ( talk) 16:05, 12 October 2021 (UTC)
• An induction generator is flexible but needs help getting started. ~ Kvng ( talk) 18:50, 13 October 2021 (UTC)
• A heat pipe uses a volatile liquid. ~ Kvng ( talk) 14:27, 18 October 2021 (UTC)
• High Definition Compatible Digital encodes with dynamic range compression so plays back louder (and potentially sounds better) than a standard CD. ~ Kvng ( talk) 14:55, 20 October 2021 (UTC)
• It can theoretically take an arbiter an unbounded amount of time to reach a decision. ~ Kvng ( talk) 17:38, 21 October 2021 (UTC)
• Avionics Full-Duplex Switched Ethernet appropriates Ethernet hardware to build an ATM-like network. ~ Kvng ( talk) 22:05, 21 October 2021 (UTC)
• 8-track tape was developed by Learjet. ~ Kvng ( talk) 20:20, 11 November 2021 (UTC)
• Neats and scruffies was holy war in AI eventually won by the neats. ~ Kvng ( talk) 04:46, 16 November 2021 (UTC)
• A Tarpit (networking) is a simple technique to dampen network mischief. ~ Kvng ( talk) 21:30, 24 November 2021 (UTC)
• Thermal runaway may be responsible for uneven heating in microwave ovens. ~ Kvng ( talk) 15:10, 10 December 2021 (UTC)
• Arithmetic is more difficult than expected due to the table-maker's dilemma. ~ Kvng ( talk) 17:54, 19 December 2021 (UTC)
• Vellum is high-quality Parchment. ~ Kvng ( talk) 15:06, 30 December 2021 (UTC)
• According to Stigler's law of eponymy, everything is misnamed. 16:11, 10 January 2022 (UTC)
• Koomey's law predicts computing performance WRT power consumption over time. 15:35, 20 January 2022 (UTC)
• A flicker test is the most sensitive test for visual transparancy. 14:48, 29 January 2022 (UTC)
• Ensemble signaling is the generalization of differential signaling. 15:34, 29 January 2022 (UTC)
• Inharmonicity describes the the relationship of harmonics from an instrument. A bell is inharmonic. 17:32, 14 February 2022 (UTC)
• Machine Identification Code identifies the printer that produced a document. 15:09, 17 February 2022 (UTC)
• TCP offload engines are generally not supported by Linux. 15:49, 19 February 2022 (UTC)
• UDP is less than 10% of Internet traffic. ^[3]
• Barbra Streisand is missing an 'a'. 19:42, 16 May 2022 (UTC)
• There was a Satanic panic in the 1980s. 14:17, 29 May 2022 (UTC)
• Koomey's law observes that computing is becoming exponentially more efficient. Like with Moore's law this can't continue forever. 13:17, 6 June 2022 (UTC)
• Monster 6502 is a PCB implementation of the MOS Technology 6502. 13:43, 7 June 2022 (UTC)
• Ornaments are unessential musical embellishments. 16:45, 17 June 2022 (UTC)
• Primary ovarian insufficiency causes early menopause. 17:16, 22 June 2022 (UTC)
• Speedcore is fast but other genres exceed 1000 BPM. 15:53, 23 June 2022 (UTC)
• SOFAR channel is a waveguide for sound in the sea. 15:21, 28 June 2022 (UTC)
• Financial astrology might work as any other trading strategy. 19:13, 28 June 2022 (UTC)
• Astrionics are computers and electronics in space. 14:53, 29 June 2022 (UTC)
• The McMartin preschool trial was part of a day-care sex-abuse hysteria wave. 14:01, 2 July 2022 (UTC)
• Nicotini, a drink with nicotine. 17:02, 4 July 2022 (UTC)
• Histogram equalization is an automated process that makes pictures look better. 15:20, 26 July 2022 (UTC)
• A random wire is a legitimate way to build an antenna. 23:32, 26 July 2022 (UTC)
• We're up to 6G now. 14:01, 2 August 2022 (UTC)
• OTC hearing aids are now available. 14:24, 20 August 2022 (UTC)
• A synchronous detector uses a replica of the unmodulated carrier 14:22, 9 November 2022 (UTC)

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