JavaScript (/ˈdʒɑːvəskrɪpt/), often abbreviated as JS, is a programming language and core technology of the Web, alongside HTML and CSS. 99% of websites use JavaScript on the client side for webpage behavior.[10] Web browsers have a dedicated JavaScript engine that executes the client code. These engines are also utilized in some servers and a variety of apps. The most popular runtime system for n

Decentralized Privacy-Preserving Proximity Tracing (DP-3T, stylized as dp3t) is an open protocol developed in response to the COVID-19 pandemic to facilitate digital contact tracing of infected participants.[4][5] The protocol, like competing protocol Pan-European Privacy-Preserving Proximity Tracing (PEPP-PT), uses Bluetooth Low Energy to track and log encounters with other users.[6][7] The proto

Daylight saving time (DST), also known as summer time, is the practice of advancing clocks during part of the year, typically by one hour around spring and summer, so that daylight ends at a later time of the day. As of 2024, DST is observed in most of Europe, most of North America and parts of Africa and Asia around the Northern Hemisphere summer, and in parts of South America and Oceania around

One set of page table for use in kernel mode includes both kernel-space and user-space. The second set of page table for use in user mode contains a copy of user-space and a minimal set of kernel-space handling system calls and interrupts. Kernel page-table isolation (KPTI or PTI,[1] previously called KAISER)[2][3] is a Linux kernel feature that mitigates the Meltdown security vulnerability (affec

The Godson processors, based on MIPS architecture, were initially developed at the Institute of Computing Technology (ICT), Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS).[4] The chief architect was Hu Weiwu [zh].[5] The development of the first Loongson chip was started in 2001.[5][6] The aim of the Godson project was to develop "high performance general-purpose microprocessors in China",[2] and to become tec

Legal The European Union has passed no specific legislation relative to the status of bitcoin as a currency, but has stated that VAT/GST is not applicable to the conversion between traditional (fiat) currency and bitcoin. VAT/GST and other taxes (such as income tax) still apply to transactions made using bitcoins for goods and services. [3]: European Union In October 2015, the Court of Justice of

HTTP cookies (also called web cookies, Internet cookies, browser cookies, or simply cookies) are small blocks of data created by a web server while a user is browsing a website and placed on the user's computer or other device by the user's web browser. Cookies are placed on the device used to access a website, and more than one cookie may be placed on a user's device during a session. Cookies ser

Shut down by FBI in October 2013. Silk Road 2.0 shut down by FBI and Europol on 6 November 2014.[6] Silk Road was an online black market and the first modern darknet market.[7] It was launched in 2011 by its American founder Ross Ulbricht under the pseudonym "Dread Pirate Roberts." As part of the dark web,[8] Silk Road operated as a hidden service on the Tor network, allowing users to buy and sell

A password field in a sign in form A password, sometimes called a passcode, is secret data, typically a string of characters, usually used to confirm a user's identity. Traditionally, passwords were expected to be memorized,[1] but the large number of password-protected services that a typical individual accesses can make memorization of unique passwords for each service impractical.[2] Using the

A businessperson is an individual who has founded, owns, or holds shares in (including as an angel investor) a private-sector company.[dubious – discuss] A businessperson undertakes activities (commercial or industrial) to generate cash flow, sales, and revenue by using a combination of human, financial, intellectual, and physical capital to fuel economic development and growth.[1] History[edit] P