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  2. Webdriver Torso - Wikipedia

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    Webdriver Torso is a YouTube automated performance testing account that became famous in 2014 for speculations about its (then unexplained) nature and jokes featured in some of its videos. Created by Google on March 7, 2013, [1] the channel began uploading videos on September 23 of the same year, consisting of simple slides accompanied by beeps ...

  3. Doomscrolling - Wikipedia

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    A person scrolling through news on a smartphone. Doomscrolling or doomsurfing is the act of spending an excessive amount of time reading large quantities of news, particularly negative news, on the web and social media. [1] [2] The concept was coined around 2020, particularly in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic.

  4. Scrolling - Wikipedia

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    Scrolling may take place in discrete increments (perhaps one or a few lines of text at a time), or continuously (smooth scrolling). Frame rate is the speed at which an entire image is redisplayed. It is related to scrolling in that changes to text and image position can only happen as often as the image can be redisplayed.

  5. Bleep censor - Wikipedia

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    YouTube videos often have profanity bleeped or muted out as YouTube policy specifies that videos including profanities may be "demonetized" or stripped of ads. [10] Beginning in 2019, the bleep censor began to be more often used for censoring out words related to sensitive and contentious topics to evade algorithmic censorship online ...

  6. Beep (sound) - Wikipedia

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    A beep is a short, single tone, typically high-pitched, generally made by a computer or other machine. The term has its origin in onomatopoeia . The word "beep-beep" is recorded for the noise of a car horn in 1929, and the modern usage of "beep" for a high-pitched tone is attributed to Arthur C. Clarke in 1951.

  7. Scroll Lock - Wikipedia

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    Pressing the Scroll Lock key in the Linux console while the text is scrolling through the screen freezes the console output (but not input) during which no further text is sent to the screen, while the program continues running as usual, or become blocked at the write syscall when too much data prevented from reaching the terminal caused the tty's output queue to become full and the tty file ...

  8. Beep Beep (song) - Wikipedia

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    "Beep Beep" was written by Carl Cicchetti and Donald Claps, [2] also known as Chic Hetti and Donny Conn, [3] the band's arranger/pianist and drummer, respectively. [4]The song is built around accelerando: the tempo of the song gradually increases commensurate with the increasing speed of the drivers. [5]

  9. Greenwich Time Signal - Wikipedia

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    There are six pips (short beeps) in total, which occur on each of the 5 seconds leading up to the hour and on the hour itself. Each pip is a 1 k Hz tone (about a fifth of a semitone above musical B5) the first five of which last a tenth of a second each, while the final pip lasts half a second. The actual moment when the hour changes – the ...