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Pixel binning

Pixel binning is an image-sensor technique that combines signals from adjacent pixels into one larger pixel, trading resolution for a better signal-to-noise ratio; it is a key solution to the limits of small smartphone camera sensors.

Pixel density

Pixel density is the number of pixels per unit of physical length on a display or printed image, usually expressed as pixels per inch (ppi) and often loosely called DPI.

Pixel Flow!

Pixel Flow!, also known as Loom Games, is the hybrid-casual puzzle game behind the Istanbul mobile studio founded in 2025 by Kübra Gündoğan and Emre Çelik.

Pixel Perfect

Pixel Perfect (2004) is a Disney Channel Original Movie, also known by its hologram character Loretta Modern, directed by Mark A.Z. Dippé, starring Ricky Ullman and Leah Pipes, about a hologram singer fronting the band the Zettabytes.

Pixel Piracy

Pixel Piracy is a 2D side-scrolling pirate simulator RPG by Vitali Kirpu (Quadro Delta), in Early Access December 12, 2013 and on Steam 2014–2015; PS4/Xbox One via 505 Games in 2016; Mixed Steam reception; Quadro Delta went bankrupt in 2018.

Pixel Watch 3

The Pixel Watch 3 is a Google smartwatch announced in August 2024 and released that September, the first Pixel Watch offered in two sizes, 41 mm and 45 mm.

Pixel Watch 4

The Pixel Watch 4 is a Wear OS smartwatch developed by Google, announced in August 2025 and released that October as the fourth generation of the Pixel Watch line.

Pixel Watch 5

The Google Pixel Watch 5 is a Wear OS smartwatch developed by Google, announced in August 2026 and released that October as the fifth Pixel Watch.

Pixels (2015 film)

Pixels (2015) is a Chris Columbus sci-fi action comedy starring Adam Sandler, Kevin James, Peter Dinklage, and Josh Gad, adapted from Patrick Jean's 2010 short, in which aliens attack Earth using arcade games; it grossed $244.9 million worldwide and was critically panned.

Pixelworks Semiconductor (Shanghai)

逐点半导体 (Pixelworks Semiconductor Shanghai) is a Shanghai-based designer of display and video processing chips, founded in 2004 and holding over 80% of the global 3LCD projector main-control chip market.

Pixhawk

Pixhawk is an independent open-hardware project that publishes reference designs and standards for drone autopilot hardware, started around 2008 by Lorenz Meier as a student project at ETH Zurich.

Pixie

A pixie, also known as a piskie or piskey, is a mischievous creature in the folklore of southwest England, especially Devon and Cornwall, and around Dartmoor.

Pixie Chasma

Pixie Chasma is a 278-km-wide canyon (chasma) on Ariel, moon of Uranus, IAU-named in 1988 for British rock-dwelling spirits; part of the older Pixie Group, interpreted as a possible spreading center with unresolved medial grooves.

Pixie Davies

Pixie Davies (Pixie Love Davies, born 2006) is a British actress known for Annabel Banks in Mary Poppins Returns (2018), Bronwyn in Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children (2016), Sophie Hawkins in Humans, and voicing Maria Renard in Castlevania: Nocturne; not the 2020 film Pixie.

Pixie Geldof

Pixie Geldof (Little Pixie Geldof), English model and singer, third daughter of Bob Geldof and Paula Yates; fronted band Violet, released solo album I'm Yours (2016), walked for Chloé and Ashley Williams, and fronted Gucci's 2025 campaign.

Pixie Lott

Pixie Lott (Victoria Louise Lott, born 1991, London) is an English pop singer-songwriter and actress with three UK number-one singles and the 2024 independent album Encino.

Pixie-cup lichens

Pixie-cup lichens are species of the lichen genus Cladonia whose upright stalks widen at the top into goblet- or funnel-shaped cups, common on soil, rocks, walls, and decaying wood.

Pixies (band)

Pixies are an American alternative rock band formed in Boston in 1986 by Black Francis and Joey Santiago, with Kim Deal and David Lovering. Known for Surfer Rosa, Doolittle, quiet-loud dynamics, a 1993 breakup, 2004 reunion, and influence on Nirvana and Radiohead.

Pixies discography

The Pixies discography covers the Boston alternative rock band's releases, from Come on Pilgrim (1987) through the reunion albums ending with The Night the Zombies Came (2024).

Pixinguinha

Pixinguinha (1897–1973) was a Brazilian composer, flutist, and saxophonist from Rio de Janeiro called the father of choro, best known for 'Carinhoso' and declared Patron of Brazilian Popular Music.

Pixis (company)

Pixis, formerly Pyxis One, is a California-based technology company founded around 2018 that sells codeless AI infrastructure for marketing optimization and has raised $209 million in venture funding.

Pixiu (貔貅)

Pixiu (貔貅, also Tianlu/Bixie) is a Chinese hybrid mythical beast, dragon-headed and winged, an ancient tomb guardian later reworked into a wealth-gathering fengshui charm.

Pixiv (ピクシブ)

Pixiv (ピクシブ) is a Japanese social networking service for posting illustrations, manga, and novels, launched September 10, 2007 by pixiv Inc.; 128 million users and 177 million works by 2026, with FANBOX, BOOTH, and VRoid sister services.

Pixley ka Isaka Seme

Pixley ka Isaka Seme (1881–1951) was a South African lawyer, journalist, and politician who founded the ANC's forerunner at Bloemfontein in 1912 and served as its President-General from 1930 to 1936.

Pixodarus

Pixodarus (Πιξώδαρος) was a Hecatomnid satrap of Caria who seized power by expelling his sister Ada from Halicarnassus and died before Alexander the Great landed in 334 BC.

Pixote

Pixote: A Lei do Mais Fraco is a 1980 Brazilian crime drama by Héctor Babenco, based on José Louzeiro's novel Infância dos mortos, about a boy surviving a reformatory and street crime; starring nonprofessional actor Fernando Ramos da Silva.

Pixtral

Pixtral is a family of open-weight vision-language models released by Mistral AI in 2024: Pixtral 12B under Apache 2.0 and the 124B Pixtral Large, both since discontinued.

PixVerse

PixVerse is a family of proprietary AI video-generation models developed by Aishi Technology, a Singapore- and Beijing-headquartered startup founded in 2023 by former ByteDance and Tencent senior researchers.

Pixxel Space

Pixxel Space, founded in Bengaluru, India, in 2019 by Awais Ahmed and Kshitij Khandelwal, operates a constellation of hyperspectral Earth observation satellites and software for analyzing their data.

Pixxie

PiXXiE (พิกซี่) is a three-member Thai T-pop girl group under LIT Entertainment, Mabelz, Pimma, and Ingkho, who debuted 11 February 2021 with "Ded" and are known for viral hits "Whatever" and "Too Cute".