All articles starting with L

LifeLock

LifeLock is an American identity-theft protection service founded in 2005 and owned by Gen Digital, monitoring credit bureaus, financial accounts, and dark-web sources, with restoration support and expense-reimbursement coverage.

Lifelong learning

Lifelong learning is learning across the whole lifespan in formal, non-formal and informal modes, championed by UNESCO and OECD; key facts include 754 million adults lacking basic literacy and stagnating adult participation in many OECD countries.

Lifelong multi-agent path finding

Lifelong multi-agent path finding is the robotics coordination problem in which agents get new goals upon completing current ones, judged by throughput rather than arrival time.

Sep 20, 2026

Lifeng Chi

Lifeng Chi (迟力峰, born 1957) is a Chinese surface physical chemist known for on-surface chemical reactions and molecular self-assembly, a Chinese Academy of Sciences academician elected in 2021.

Lifes Rich Pageant

Lifes Rich Pageant (no apostrophe) is R.E.M.'s fourth studio album, released July 1986 on I.R.S. Records, produced by Don Gehman at John Mellencamp's Belmont Mall Studio in Indiana; it became the band's first Gold record and peaked at No. 21 on the Billboard 200.

Lifesaving (sport)

Life saving (lifesaving sport) is competitive aquatic rescue sport governed by the International Life Saving Federation, with pool, beach, ocean, SERC, surf boat, and IRB events, biennial Lifesaving World Championships since 1994, and World Games inclusion since 1985.

Lifesaving Medal

The Lifesaving Medal, in Gold and Silver grades, is a U.S. Coast Guard award under 14 U.S.C. § 2744 for rescues from drowning, shipwreck, or water perils, established by Congress in 1874 and renamed in 1882.

LIFESCAPES

LIFESCAPES Inc. is a Tokyo-based medical-device startup spun out of Keio University in 2018 that develops a wearable brain–machine interface rehabilitation device for severe hand paralysis after stroke.

Lifesize (company)

Lifesize is an American video conferencing company founded in Austin, Texas, in 2003, known for high-definition and 4K meeting-room hardware and a cloud video service, acquired by Enghouse Systems in 2023.

Lifespring

Lifespring, Inc. was a large group awareness training company founded by John Hanley Sr. in San Francisco, incorporated 1974; its five-day basic trainings drew thousands and dozens of lawsuits before the mid-1990s shutdown.

Lifest

Lifest is an annual four-day Christian music festival each July at the Sunnyview Expo Center in Oshkosh, Wisconsin, run by Life Promotions; founded 1990 as a 5K run, festival since 1999, 100+ acts on six stages, about 27,000 daily attendees.

LifeStraw

LifeStraw is a brand of portable water filters using hollow fiber membrane technology to remove bacteria, parasites, and microplastics, first sold by Denmark-based Vestergaard in 2005.

Lifestyle disease

Lifestyle disease, also called noncommunicable disease (NCD), is a chronic disease shaped by tobacco use, unhealthy diet, inactivity, and harmful alcohol use. Includes cardiovascular disease, diabetes, cancers; 43 million NCD deaths in 2021.

Lifestyles of the Rich and Famous

Lifestyles of the Rich and Famous was an American first-run syndicated TV series (1984–1995), created by Al Masini and hosted by Robin Leach, touring celebrity mansions and yachts and popularizing "champagne wishes and caviar dreams," a forerunner of MTV Cribs and wealth-focused reality TV.

Lifetimes (song)

"Lifetimes" is a 2024 dance-pop single by Katy Perry, the second single from her album 143, produced by Dr. Luke and Vaughn Oliver, written for her daughter Daisy, with a video filmed in Ibiza and Formentera that drew a Spanish environmental investigation.

LifeVest

The LifeVest is a wearable cardioverter defibrillator made by ZOLL Medical Corporation of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, FDA approved in 2001 as a temporary bridge before an implantable defibrillator.

Lifeweaver

Lifeweaver (Niran PruksaManee) is a Thai support hero added to Overwatch 2 on April 11, 2023; first openly pansexual hero, inventor of biolight, fugitive from Vishkar, with Life Grip and Tree of Life.

LifeWell

LifeWell is a Chennai-based Indian diagnostics and digital health company formed in July 2022 by merging MFine with LifeCell International's diagnostics business, raising $80 million from OrbiMed.

Sep 19, 2026

LifeX

LifeX is a Copenhagen-based co-living operator, founded in 2017, that leases large furnished apartments and sublets rooms to resident communities on collective leases in several European cities.

Lifford

Lifford (Leifear), county town of Donegal, Ireland, at the Finn-Mourne-Foyle confluence on the border with Strabane, Co. Tyrone. Castle of 1527, 1746 courthouse, 2022 population 1,613.

Lifibrol

Lifibrol (K 12.148, CAS 96609-16-4), an investigational phenoxy-acid lipid-lowering drug for hypercholesterolemia that lowers LDL cholesterol over 40% by enhancing LDL-receptor activity through a mechanism distinct from statins and fibrates; reached Phase 3 but was never marketed.

Lifileucel

Lifileucel, sold as Amtagvi and formerly LN-144, is a T cell immunotherapy made from a patient's own tumor tissue, approved for advanced melanoma in 2024.

Lifirafenib

Lifirafenib (BGB-283) is a BeiGene/BeOne investigational pan-RAF and EGFR inhibitor for MAPK-driven tumors; phase I MTD 40 mg/day, activity in BRAF V600-mutated melanoma, thyroid, and ovarian cancers, studied with mirdametinib.

Lifitegrast

Lifitegrast (Xiidra) is a preservative-free 5% LFA-1 antagonist eye drop approved by the FDA in July 2016 for dry eye disease signs and symptoms; common effects are instillation site irritation and dysgeusia.

Oct 10, 2026

LIFO reserve

The LIFO reserve is the difference between a company's inventory valued under FIFO and under LIFO, a contra-asset account used to convert LIFO figures to a FIFO basis.

LIFR

LIFR (leukemia inhibitory factor receptor, CD118, gp190) is a transmembrane cytokine receptor gene on chromosome 5p13.1 that binds LIF, OSM, CT-1, CNTF, and CLC, signals with gp130 through JAK/STAT, and when biallelically mutated causes Stüve-Wiedemann syndrome.

Lift (2021 film)

Lift (Tamil: லிப்ட்) is a 2021 Tamil horror-thriller, Vineeth Varaprasad's directorial debut, starring Kavin and Amritha Aiyer as IT workers trapped in a haunted office lift; released on Disney+ Hotstar 1 October 2021.

Lift (2024 film)

Lift (2024) is a Netflix heist action comedy directed by F. Gary Gray, starring Kevin Hart as art thief Cyrus Whitaker, whose crew steals $500 million in gold from a plane mid-flight; released January 12, 2024, with mixed-to-negative reviews (Metascore 40, 30% Tomatometer).

Lift (data mining)

Lift, first described under the name "interest", is a data mining measure for association rules that compares observed co-occurrence of items with what statistical independence would predict.