Technology

Articles about devices, tools, digital systems and innovation.

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Audio feedback

Audio feedback: causes, control, and uses

Audio mixer

Authentication

Authentication: verification of identity, origin, and trust

Auto-Tune

Autofocus

Autofocus: principles, methods, and applications of automatic focusing systems

Automated teller machine

Automated Teller Machine (ATM): Functions, History, Security, and Uses

Automatic firearm

Availability

Availability (computing and information security)

Avalanche effect

Avalanche effect (cryptography)

Awk

Awk (programming language)

AZERTY

Backslash

Backspace

Backspace

Backspace key: function, history, and differences from Delete

Overview of the Backspace key: its typewriter origins, typical leftward deletion on modern systems, historical control codes and overstrike use, Unicode evolution, and key behavior

Backup

Backup (data protection and recovery)

Backward compatibility

Baltix

Baltix — Baltic-focused GNU/Linux distribution

Bandwidth (computing)

Bandwidth (signal processing)

Barbed wire

Barbed wire: design, history, uses, and impacts

Barcode

Barcode: machine-readable symbols for identification and tracking

Barcode reader

BASIC

BASIC

BASIC (programming language)

BASIC, short for Beginner's All-purpose Symbolic Instruction Code, is an imperative programming language created at Dartmouth in 1964 for teaching and general-purpose programming.

Bass amplifier

Bass amplifier: design, history, and role in instrument amplification

Battle droid

Battle droid (Star Wars) — purpose, design, and role in the Clone Wars

BeatrIX

Beechcraft King Air

Bell X-1

Bellows

Benchmark

Benchmark: Standards and Tests for Measuring Performance

BeOS

BeOS — multimedia‑focused desktop operating system

Berkeley Software Distribution

Berkeley Software Distribution (BSD): history, variants, and uses

Betamax

Bifocals

Bifocals: design, history, uses, and how they differ from other multifocal lenses

Big data

Binary adder

Binary adder

Binary image

Binoculars

Binoculars: design, history, types, and common uses

Bipod

Bipod: portable two-legged support for firearms and equipment

Bipolar junction transistor

Bipolar Junction Transistor (BJT): structure, operation and applications

Bird cage

Bit-level parallelism

Bit-level parallelism: scaling processor word size

BitchX

BitchX: Terminal-based IRC Client — History, Security, and Maintenance

Bitcoin

BitTorrent

BitTorrent: peer-to-peer file distribution protocol and original client

BlackBerry

BlackBerry

Blender

Blender

Blender (program)

Blender (3D graphics software)

Block cipher