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FlyZoo Hotel
The FlyZoo Hotel, a 290-room smart hotel in Hangzhou's Yuhang District, was opened by Alibaba in December 2018 as China's first largely unmanned hotel, using facial recognition and robots.
FM broadcast band
The FM broadcast band is the range of frequencies from 87.5 to 108 MHz internationally and 88 to 108 MHz in the United States and Canada, carrying FM radio.
FM broadcast transmitter
An FM broadcast transmitter is the equipment that generates a frequency-modulated carrier in the 88–108 MHz band and amplifies it to the power needed for FM sound broadcasting.
FM broadcasting
FM broadcasting: audio radio transmission by frequency modulation of VHF carriers at 87.5–108 MHz (88–108 MHz North America), ±75 kHz deviation, pilot-tone stereo, developed by Edwin Armstrong in the 1930s; distinct from AM and digital radio.
FM broadcasting in India
FM broadcasting in India (88–108 MHz VHF-II band): AIR FM services since 1977, private FM since the 1999 Phase-I policy, Phase-III auctions, 386 operational private channels, and community radio.
FM Towns
The FM Towns (エフエムタウンズ), also called the Fujitsu FM Towns, was a 32-bit multimedia computer sold only in Japan from 1989 to 1997, the first with a standard CD-ROM drive.
FM Towns Marty
FM Towns Marty (FM TOWNS MARTY, マーティー): Fujitsu's Japan-only 1993 home console, the first 32-bit home console, derived from the FM Towns PC with 386SX CPU, CD-ROM and floppy drives; sold about 45,000 units and was discontinued in 1995.
FM-2030
FM-2030 (Fereidoun M. Esfandiary, فریدون اسفندیاری), Iranian-American futurist (1930–2000) who defined the transhuman as a transitional human, wrote Are You a Transhuman? (1989), and was cryopreserved at Alcor.
FM-84
FM-84 is the synthwave project of Scottish producer Col Bennett, known for the 2016 album Atlas and the song "Running In The Night" with vocalist Ollie Wride.
FMA (music dataset)
FMA (Free Music Archive) is an open dataset for music information retrieval created by EPFL researchers and described at ISMIR 2017, with 106,574 mostly Creative Commons-licensed tracks by 16,341 artists and 161 genres.
FMA IA 58 Pucará
The FMA IA 58 Pucará, also known as the IA 58 Pucara, is an Argentine twin-turboprop ground-attack aircraft first flown in 1969, best known for its 1982 Falklands War service.
FMC Corporation
FMC Corporation, originally Food Machinery Corporation, is an American agricultural sciences company headquartered in Philadelphia that develops crop protection chemicals, including insecticides, herbicides, and fungicides, tracing its origins to 1883.
FMDQ Group
FMDQ Group is a Nigerian financial market infrastructure holding company operating the largest exchange focused on fixed income, currencies, and derivatives, with ₦461.34 trillion turnover in 2024.
FMECA
FMECA, or Failure Mode, Effects, and Criticality Analysis, is a reliability engineering method that ranks failure modes by severity so corrective effort goes to the most critical items.
FMN-binding
FMN-binding is the association of proteins, or of regulatory RNA such as the FMN riboswitch, with flavin mononucleotide (FMN), the phosphorylated form of riboflavin serving as a redox cofactor in electron transfer.
Fmoc protecting group
The Fmoc protecting group, 9-fluorenylmethoxycarbonyl, is a base-labile carbamate used to mask amino groups in peptide synthesis, introduced by Carpino and Han in 1970 and central to solid-phase peptide synthesis.
FMOD
FMOD (Firelight Technologies, first released 1995) is game audio middleware: FMOD Studio authoring tool plus FMOD Core runtime, with Unity and Unreal integrations, used in Fortnite, Hollow Knight, and Celeste.
FMR1
FMR1 (fragile X messenger ribonucleoprotein 1) is an X-linked gene encoding FMRP, an RNA-binding translational regulator. CGG repeat expansion causes fragile X syndrome, FXTAS, and FXPOI; gene identified 1991.
FMRFamide
FMRFamide is the tetrapeptide Phe-Met-Arg-Phe-NH2, a molluscan neuropeptide isolated from the venus clam Macrocallista nimbosa in 1977, whose relatives are found from cnidarians to chordates.
FMRFamide-related peptide-like
FMRFamide-related peptide-like, also written FMRFamide-like peptide (FLP), is a family of neuropeptides sharing a C-terminal RFamide motif, first identified in a clam in 1977 and found across nearly all animal phyla.
FMVSS 208
FMVSS 208, Federal Motor Vehicle Safety Standard No. 208, is the US federal regulation requiring occupant crash protection, including seat belts and air bags, in passenger vehicles.
FMVSS 214
FMVSS 214, Federal Motor Vehicle Safety Standard No. 214, is a United States regulation requiring side impact protection in passenger cars, trucks, and buses through door crush, barrier, and pole tests.
FMVSS No. 216 (Roof Crush Resistance)
FMVSS No. 216, "Roof Crush Resistance," is a US federal safety standard requiring light-vehicle roofs to withstand 1.5 times vehicle weight in rollover crashes, effective 1973.
FMZ Ventures New Fund
FMZ Ventures New Fund, LP is a Delaware venture capital fund based in Denver, Colorado, which filed with the SEC in December 2022 to raise $200 million.
FN 5.7×28mm
The FN 5.7×28mm is a small-caliber, high-velocity bottlenecked cartridge developed by FN Herstal of Belgium in the late 1980s as a 9mm Luger replacement, used in the FN P90 and Five-seveN.
FN F2000
The FN F2000, also known as the SC20K, is a Belgian 5.56mm bullpup assault rifle made by FN Herstal, first marketed in 2001 after development in the late 1990s.
FN FAL
The FN FAL (Fusil Automatique Léger) is a Belgian battle rifle designed by Dieudonné Saive at FN Herstal and adopted by more than 90 countries.
FN Five-seven
The FN Five-seveN is a semi-automatic pistol made by Belgian manufacturer FN Herstal, chambered for the 5.7x28mm cartridge it shares with the FN P90 submachine gun.
FN FNC
The FN FNC (Fabrique Nationale Carabine) is a Belgian 5.56x45mm NATO select-fire assault rifle developed by FN Herstal in the mid-1970s as a successor to the FN CAL.
FN Herstal
FN Herstal, or Fabrique Nationale, is a Belgian firearms manufacturer founded in 1889 in Herstal, near Liège, known for the FN MAG, FN FAL, and FN SCAR.