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Inuit throat singing or katajjaq is a form of musical performance uniquely found among the Inuit. (There used to be a similar style Rekuhkara practiced by the Ainu in Hokkaidō […]

Revision control also known as version control and source control (and an aspect of software configuration management) is the management of changes to documents computer programs large web sites and […]

Instant messaging (IM) is a type of online chat which offers real-time text transmission over the Internet. A LAN messenger operates in a similar way over a local area network. […]

Disk partitioning is the act of dividing a hard disk drive (HDD) into multiple logical storage units referred to as partitions to treat one physical disk drive as if it […]

A RAM drive (also called a RAM disk) is a block of RAM (primary storage or volatile memory) that a computer’s software is treating as if the memory were a […]

Ambient music includes forms of music that put an emphasis on tone and atmosphere over traditional musical structure or rhythm. Ambient music is said to evoke an atmospheric visual or […]

Compare moral relativism aesthetic relativism social constructionism and cognitive relativism.Cultural relativism is a principle that was established as axiomatic in anthropological research by Franz Boas in the first few decades […]

An anonymous remailer is a server that receives messages with embedded instructions on where to send them next and that forwards them without revealing where they originally came from. There […]

The Dozens is a game of spoken words between two contestants common in African-American communities where participants insult each other until one gives up. It is customary for the Dozens […]

A video codec is a device or software that enables compression or decompression of digital video. The compression is usually lossy. Historically video was stored as an analog signal on […]