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1 day ago · Speculative design. TRL. Technology scouting. v. t. e. The technological singularity —or simply the singularity [1] —is a hypothetical future point in time at which technological growth becomes uncontrollable and irreversible, resulting in unforeseeable consequences for human civilization. [2] [3] According to the most popular version of ...
1 day ago · Positive psychology concerns eudaimonia, a word that means human thriving or flourishing. [page needed] A "good life" is defined by psychologists and philosophers as consisting of authentic expression of self, a sense of well-being, and active engagement in life.
1 day ago · SMS phishing or smishing is a type of phishing attack that uses text messages from a cell phone or smartphone to deliver a bait message. The victim is usually asked to click a link, call a phone number, or contact an email address provided by the attacker.
1 hour ago · Tiger. The tiger ( Panthera tigris) is a member of the genus Panthera and the largest living cat species native to Asia. It has a powerful, muscular body with a large head and paws, a long tail and orange fur with black, mostly vertical stripes. It is traditionally classified into nine recent subspecies, though some recognise only two ...
1 day ago · Nazi Germany, [h] officially known as the German Reich [i] and later the Greater German Reich, [j] was the German state between 1933 and 1945, when Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Party controlled the country, transforming it into a totalitarian dictatorship. The Third Reich, [k] meaning "Third Realm" or "Third Empire", referred to the Nazi claim ...
1 day ago · The single transferable vote ( STV ), sometimes mistakenly conflated with proportional ranked choice voting ( P-RCV ), [a] is a weakly-proportional family of multi-winner electoral systems. They are a variation on the largest remainders method that uses solid coalitions rather than party lists. Votes in excess of an electoral quota are ...
1 day ago · The English word Christmas is a shortened form of 'Christ's Mass'. The word is recorded as Crīstesmæsse in 1038 and Cristes-messe in 1131. Crīst (genitive Crīstes) is from the Greek Χριστός (Khrīstos, 'Christ'), a translation of the Hebrew מָשִׁיחַ (Māšîaḥ, 'Messiah'), meaning 'anointed'; and mæsse is from the Latin missa, the celebration of the Eucharist.
