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Pika (AI model)
Pika is a family of text-to-video, image-to-video, and video-editing AI models developed by Pika Labs, founded in 2023, best known for viral one-click effects such as inflate, melt, and cake-ify.
Pikachu
Pikachu (ピカチュウ) is the Electric-type mouse Pokémon, Pokédex #0025, designed by Atsuko Nishida and the mascot of the Pokémon franchise since the 1997 anime, fronting a $100bn media empire.
Pikachurin
Pikachurin (EGFLAM) is an extracellular matrix protein of the photoreceptor ribbon synapse cleft, identified in 2008, that binds alpha-dystroglycan via LG2-LG3 domains and GPR179, aligning bipolar dendrites; its loss disrupts retinal signaling.
Pikaia
Pikaia, or Pikaia gracilens, is an extinct eel-like animal from the Middle Cambrian Burgess Shale of British Columbia, dating to about 505 million years ago.
Pike
Pike (Esox, family Esocidae): ambush freshwater predators of Europe, northern Asia, and North America; northern pike (Esox lucius) reaches 4.5 ft and 63 lbs, spawns up to 75,000 eggs, and is both a prized sport fish and a harmful invader outside its native range.
Pike (weapon)
Pike (weapon): a long two-handed thrusting spear up to about 5-6 meters, used by massed European infantry from the Swiss pike squares of 1476-77 through the pike-and-shot era, protecting musketeers from cavalry until the bayonet replaced it.
Pike County shootings
Pike County shootings, also called the Pike County massacre or Rhoden family massacre: the April 21–22, 2016 execution-style murders of eight Rhoden family members at four homes near Piketon, Ohio, by the Wagner family over a custody dispute; three Wagners convicted or pleaded guilty, Billy Wagner's trial pending.
Pike Hill Signal Tower
Pike Hill Signal Tower, near Banks, Cumbria, is an early 2nd-century Roman signal tower on the Stanegate frontier, later incorporated into Hadrian's Wall at a 45-degree angle; its 6.10 m square remains were excavated in 1931–32 and are in English Heritage guardianship.
Pike Place Market
Pike Place Market is a Seattle public market founded in 1907. After being saved from demolition by a citizen vote in 1973, it occupies a seven-acre historic district.
Pike River (film)
Pike River (2025) is a New Zealand drama directed by Robert Sarkies, starring Melanie Lynskey and Robyn Malcolm as Anna Osborne and Sonya Rockhouse, who fought for justice after the 2010 Pike River Mine explosion killed 29 men.
Pike Solar Project
The Pike Solar Project is a 175 MW utility-scale solar plant near Fountain, Colorado, which entered commercial operation in December 2023 and powers about 46,300 homes.
Pikes Peak
Pikes Peak, also called America's Mountain, is a 14,115-foot Colorado fourteener near Colorado Springs with 5,530 feet of prominence, named for explorer Zebulon Pike, first climbed by Edwin James in 1820, and topped by a highway, cog railway, and visitor center.
Pikes Peak International Hill Climb
Pikes Peak International Hill Climb, the Race to the Clouds: annual hill climb race on the 12.42-mile, 156-turn Pikes Peak Highway, founded 1916 by Spencer Penrose; record 7:57.148 by Romain Dumas in the Volkswagen ID.R.
Pikey
Pikey (also pikie, pykie) is a British offensive slang term and racial slur for Gypsy, Roma and Traveller people, especially Irish Travellers, and for poor working-class people; probably from turnpike, dated to the second third of the 19th century.
PIKFYVE
PIKFYVE (phosphoinositide kinase, FYVE-type zinc finger containing) is a lipid kinase producing PI(3,5)P2 and PI(5)P, regulating endolysosomal trafficking and autophagy; a drug target in cancer, SARS-CoV-2, and ALS.
Pikillaqta
Pikillaqta, also spelled Pikillacta or Piquillacta, is a large pre-Inca archaeological site near Cusco, Peru, built by the Wari culture as a planned administrative and ceremonial center.
Pikine
Pikine (Wolof "pikini", nothing) is Senegal's largest suburb of Dakar, founded in 1952 to relocate Dakar's slum residents; about 1.28 million people across 16 communes, plagued by flooding since 2005.
Pikine Department
Pikine Department (Département de Pikine), Senegal: a department of the Dakar region created in 1983, city founded 1952; 764,597 inhabitants (2023), 46 km², three arrondissements, 16 communes, heavy flooding and informal settlement.
Pikka
Pikka is an oil field and production unit on Alaska's North Slope, developed in the Nanushuk formation by Santos and Repsol, with first oil reached in May 2026.
Pikmin
Pikmin is a real-time strategy video game series by Nintendo, created by Shigeru Miyamoto, whose players lead plantlike creatures to collect treasure and battle wildlife.
Pikmin 3
Pikmin 3 (ピクミン3) is Nintendo's 2013 Wii U mass-action strategy game, third in the Pikmin series, followed by Pikmin 3 Deluxe on Switch in 2020; captains Alph, Brittany, and Charlie lead up to 100 Pikmin on planet PNF-404.
Piknik
Piknik (Пикник) is a Russian rock band formed in 1978 at the Leningrad Polytechnic Institute, known for its art-rock sound, theatrical concerts, and frontman Edmund Shklyarsky, who has led it since 1981.
Piku (पिकू)
Piku (पिकू) is a 2015 Hindi comedy-drama directed by Shoojit Sircar, written by Juhi Chaturvedi, starring Deepika Padukone, Amitabh Bachchan, and Irrfan Khan; a Delhi-to-Kolkata road trip about a daughter caring for her constipation-obsessed father, which won Bachchan the 63rd National Film Award for Best Actor.
Pil J. Yoo
Pil Jin Yoo (유필진) is a South Korean chemical engineer and professor at Sungkyunkwan University, trained at Seoul National University and MIT, working on battery materials.
Pilaf
Pilaf, also called pilau or pulao, is a rice dish cooked in seasoned liquid so every grain stays separate, known across Turkey, Iran, Central Asia, and India.
Pilaji Gaekwad
Pilaji Gaekwad (पिलाजी गायकवाड), also written Pilajirao Gaekwad, was a Maratha commander in Gujarat who founded the Gaekwad dynasty of Baroda State, ruling from Songadh until his assassination in 1732.
Pilar Bardem
Pilar Bardem, a Spanish actress, had a career spanning more than five decades. She won the 1995 Goya Award and was a prominent activist for performers' labor rights.
Pilar Pallete
Pilar Pallete (Pilar Wayne), born 1928 in Paita, Peru, is a former Peruvian actress, daughter of a senator, who met John Wayne in Tingo María in 1952, married him in Hawaii on November 1, 1954, had children Aissa, Ethan, and Marisa, separated from him in 1973 without divorce, and later wrote the 1987 memoir John Wayne: My Life With the Duke and became a painter.
Pilar Rubio
Pilar Rubio (Pilar Rubio Fernández), Spanish TV presenter, reporter, actress, and model born in Torrejón de Ardoz in 1978; famed as Sé lo que hicisteis… reporter, El hormiguero collaborator (2014-2021), El desafío judge, Selmark ambassador, and Maestros de la Costura Celebrity winner.
Pilar Ruiz-Lapuente
Pilar Ruiz-Lapuente is a Spanish astrophysicist at the University of Barcelona and CSIC who co-authored the 1998 discovery of the accelerating Universe and identified the companion star of Tycho's 1572 supernova.