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Starboy (album)
Starboy (album): The Weeknd's third studio album, released November 25, 2016 on XO/Republic; 18 tracks featuring Daft Punk, Lana Del Rey, Future, Kendrick Lamar; debuted at No. 1 on the Billboard 200 with 348,000 units; 2018 Grammy winner for Best Urban Contemporary Album.
Starboy (song)
"Starboy" is a 2016 song by the Canadian singer the Weeknd featuring the French electronic duo Daft Punk, released as the lead single and title track of his album Starboy.
Starboy Charlie
Starboy Charlie (Charlie Hilder, born 2003), also Chazz "Starboy" Hall, is an American high-flying wrestler from Pacifica, California; former WWE ID Champion, West Coast Pro Champion, and one half of The Crush Boys with Titus Alexander.
Starbreeze Studios
Starbreeze Studios, Stockholm-based Swedish game developer behind the PAYDAY heist-shooter franchise (PAYDAY: The Heist, PAYDAY 2, PAYDAY 3), subsidiary of Nasdaq-listed Starbreeze AB; founded 1998, reorganised 2018-2019, now a single-PAYDAY-IP studio.
Starbright (film)
Starbright is a 2026 American fantasy adventure film directed by Francesco Lucente, starring John Rhys-Davies, Diego Boneta, and Alexandra Dowling; 148 minutes, PG-13, limited release February 27, 2026, originally announced in 2010 with a different cast.
Starbuck Island
Starbuck Island, also known as Volunteer Island, is an uninhabited coral atoll in the southern Line Islands of Kiribati, once mined for guano and home to millions of sooty terns.
Starbucks
Starbucks, formally Starbucks Corporation, is an American multinational coffeehouse company headquartered in Seattle. Founded in 1971, it grew under Howard Schultz into a chain of more than 41,000 stores in 90 markets.
Starbug (autonomous underwater vehicle)
Starbug is a family of small, low-cost autonomous underwater vehicles developed at Australia's CSIRO, notable as one of the first AUVs designed with vision as its primary navigation sensor.
Starburst (candy)
Starburst, originally Opal Fruits, is Mars's chewy fruit candy: UK launch 1959/1960, US debut 1967 as M&M's Fruit Chewies, global Starburst rebrand in 1998.
Starburst Data
Starburst Data is an American data analytics company founded in Boston in 2017 that builds commercial products on Trino, the open source distributed SQL query engine.
Starburst galaxy
A starburst galaxy is a galaxy forming stars at an extremely high, temporary rate, often triggered by collisions with other galaxies; Messier 82 is the nearest example.
Starburster
"Starburster" is a 2024 song by the Irish post-punk band Fontaines D.C., released on 17 April 2024 as the lead single from their fourth album, Romance, on XL Recordings.
Starčevo culture
Starčevo culture: Early Neolithic farming and pottery culture of the central Balkans and Middle Danube basin, 6th millennium cal BC, first farmers of the region, related to Körös-Criş, predecessor of Vinča and LBK.
Starch
Starch (amylum): plant storage polysaccharide of amylose and amylopectin; over 50 million tons produced yearly from maize, rice, potatoes; used in food, paper, textiles, glucose, and bioplastics.
Starch gelatinization
Starch gelatinization: irreversible loss of crystalline order in starch granules heated in water, causing swelling, birefringence loss, amylose leaching, and thickening; typically 60–80 °C, measured by DSC.
Starchaser: The Legend of Orin
Starchaser: The Legend of Orin is a 1985 animated science-fiction film directed by Steven Hahn and written by Jeffrey Scott, the first full-length animated feature in stereoscopic 3-D, about slave miner Orin's rebellion against Zygon.
Starchess
Starchess, Polgár's hexagonal chess variant: 37-cell hexagram board, 5 pawns plus 5 pieces per side, alternating piece-placement phase, rook vertical and bishop diagonal movement, no castling or en passant.
Starchild Records
Starchild Records (スターチャイルド) was the anime and voice-actor label of Japan's King Records, active from 1981 to 2016 and known for Neon Genesis Evangelion, before merging into King Amusement Creative in 2016.
Starcloud
Starcloud is an American aerospace startup founded in January 2024 by Philip Johnston, Ezra Feilden, and Adi Oltean to build orbital data centers for AI compute.
StarCoder
StarCoder is a family of open large language models for code from the BigCode project, a Hugging Face and ServiceNow collaboration, first released in May 2023.
StarCraft
StarCraft (Blizzard Entertainment, March 31, 1998) is a real-time strategy game with three asymmetric races, Terran, Zerg, Protoss; best seller of 1998, Brood War expansion, and the foundation of South Korean professional esports.
StarCraft (video game)
StarCraft (1998) is Blizzard Entertainment's real-time strategy game with three asymmetric species (Terran, Protoss, Zerg); its Brood War expansion and South Korean PC bang culture made it the foundation of professional e-sports.
StarCraft II: Legacy of the Void
StarCraft II: Legacy of the Void (2015) is Blizzard's stand-alone Protoss campaign expansion concluding the StarCraft II trilogy, starring Artanis against Amon, with Co-op Missions, Archon Mode, and a major multiplayer overhaul.
StarCraft II: Wings of Liberty
StarCraft II: Wings of Liberty, Blizzard's 2010 terran-focused RTS sequel with a 29-mission Jim Raynor campaign, scored 93 on Metacritic and went free-to-play in November 2017.
StarCraft: Brood War
StarCraft: Brood War is Blizzard's 1998 expansion to StarCraft, adding six new units, three campaigns of 26 missions, and a 1.04 balance overhaul; its last balance patch came in 2001, and it remains a Korean esport and AI benchmark.
StarCraft: Remastered
StarCraft: Remastered is Blizzard Entertainment's 2017 remaster of its 1998 real-time strategy game StarCraft and the Brood War expansion, adding 4K graphics and updated online features.
Starcrash
Starcrash (Scontri stellari oltre la terza dimensione) is a 1978 Italian-American science fiction film directed by Luigi Cozzi, starring Caroline Munro, Marjoe Gortner, and David Hasselhoff, a cult Star Wars-era space opera released by New World Pictures in 1979.
Starcrawler
Starcrawler is an American glam-punk rock band formed in 2015 in Los Angeles, led by vocalist Arrow de Wilde and guitarist Henri Cash, known for theatrical live shows.
STARD statement
The STARD statement is a reporting guideline specifying what authors should include in diagnostic accuracy studies, first published in 2003 and adopted by over 200 biomedical journals.
Stardate
Stardate: the fictional Starfleet timekeeping system in Star Trek, heard in captain's logs since 1966. Invented by Gene Roddenberry to avoid naming a century; TNG-era stardates run about 1000 units per Earth year; Kelvin films use year.day format.