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Technical standard
A technical standard is a document established by consensus and approved by a recognized body, providing rules and characteristics for common, repeated use; it is voluntary unless made mandatory.
Technical support
Technical support, also known as tech support or IT support, is the range of services organizations provide to help users of technology products solve problems.
Technical support scam
A technical support scam, or fake tech support, is a fraud in which criminals pose as technicians, claim a device has a problem, and charge for unnecessary repairs.
Technical University of Munich
Technical University of Munich (TUM, Technische Universität München): public German technical university founded 1868 by King Ludwig II; seven schools, campuses in Munich, Garching, Weihenstephan, Straubing, Heilbronn, Singapore; QS 22nd worldwide, best EU university, president Thomas F. Hofmann.
Technical writer
A technical writer, also known as an information developer or tech writer, converts complex technical information into usable documents like operating instructions, how-to manuals, and FAQ pages.
Technical writing
Technical writing: communication conveying specialized information about products, systems, and software for a defined audience. Emerged as a profession after World War II; now shaped by plain language mandates and AI tools.
Technicolor
Technicolor is a series of color motion picture processes and the company, incorporated in 1915, best known for popularizing three-strip photography and dye-transfer printing in Hollywood.
Technicolor (physics)
Technicolor is a class of theories beyond the Standard Model in which a new strong interaction breaks electroweak symmetry, proposed by Leonard Susskind in 1979.
Technics SL-1200
The Technics SL-1200 is a direct-drive turntable made by the Japanese company Technics, first released in 1972 and best known as the standard DJ turntable of club, hip-hop, and electronic music.
Technimatic
Technimatic are a British drum & bass duo of Peter Rogers and Andy Powell, known for melodic liquid drum and bass on the Shogun Audio label.
Technip Energies
Technip Energies is a global engineering and technology company specializing in LNG, hydrogen, and decarbonization, created in 2021 by a spin-off from TechnipFMC and listed on Euronext Paris.
TechnipFMC
TechnipFMC plc is a UK energy technology company formed in 2017 by the merger of FMC Technologies and Technip, making subsea production systems for offshore oil and gas.
Technique (album)
Technique is New Order's fifth studio album, released 30 January 1989 on Factory Records (FACT 275). Recorded partly in Ibiza and at Real World Studios, it fused acid house with rock and became the band's first UK number 1 album.
Technique Solaire
Technique Solaire is a French independent power producer founded in 2008 in Poitiers that develops and operates solar and biogas plants in France, Spain, the Netherlands, and India.
Techniques de Randonnée Équestre de Compétition
Techniques de Randonnée Équestre de Compétition, or TREC, is an equestrian trail sport created in France in the late 1980s, testing horse and rider over three phases.
Technischer Überwachungsverein
Technischer Überwachungsverein (TÜV) is the shared name of German testing, inspection, and certification organizations; six competing groups operate in Germany and test products, vehicles, and systems worldwide.
Technisches Hilfswerk
Technisches Hilfswerk (THW, Federal Agency for Technical Relief) is Germany's federal civil protection agency under the Interior Ministry, founded 22 August 1950, with about 88,000 volunteers in roughly 730 technical units providing engineering aid domestically and abroad.
Techno
Techno is an electronic dance music genre created in Detroit in the early 1980s by Black artists including Juan Atkins, Kevin Saunderson, and Derrick May; typically 120–150 bpm, rhythm-driven, spread to Europe around 1988.
Techno Viking
Techno Viking (Technoviking) is the shirtless, hammer-pendant dancer in Matthias Fritsch's 2000 Berlin Fuckparade video Kneecam No. 1, an early viral internet meme. It went viral in 2007, spawned thousands of remixes, and the unidentified man successfully sued Fritsch in 2013 for personality-rights infringement.
Techno-horror
Techno-horror, also written tech horror or cyber horror, is a horror subgenre about fears raised by modern technology, from the internet and AI to digital surveillance.
Techno-nationalism
Techno-nationalism: ideology and policy linking technological capability to national security, economic prosperity, and social stability (counterpart: techno-globalism), exemplified by US-China semiconductor export controls of October 7, 2022.
Techno-Optimist Manifesto
The Techno-Optimist Manifesto is a blog post by venture capitalist Marc Andreessen, posted October 16, 2023, arguing that technology and free markets drive human progress.
Technobanda
Technobanda is a synthesizer- and electric-instrument update of Sinaloan banda that emerged around 1990, led by Banda Machos and Banda Maguey and tied to the quebradita dance craze in Los Angeles.
Technoblade
Technoblade (Alex, 1999–2022) was an American Minecraft YouTuber and competitor: four Minecraft Monday titles, 6–4 win over Dream, Dream SMP anarchist, 'Technoblade never dies'; died of sarcoma at 23, posthumous tributes from Mojang and 20M subscribers.
Technocracy
Technocracy: rule by technical experts, a term coined by William Henry Smyth in 1919. Covers the 1930s American Technocracy movement of Howard Scott, technocracy-democracy theory, Italian technocratic governments, and AI governance debates.
Technocracy movement
Technocracy movement: 1930s North American social movement led by Howard Scott (Technical Alliance, Technocracy Inc.) proposing to replace the price system with energy accounting and a North American Technate; peaked 1932–33, then split after Scott's failed 1933 radio address.
Technofeudalism
Technofeudalism is the thesis, popularized by Yanis Varoufakis in his 2023 book, that capitalism has been superseded: platforms are fiefdoms and profit has been replaced by rent.
Technological and industrial history of the United States
The technological and industrial history of the United States traces the country's growth from an agrarian economy into an industrial power, beginning with New England textile mills in the late 1700s.
Technological change
Technological change is the invention, improvement, and spread of new techniques and products through the economy, measured in economics as growth in total factor productivity.
Technological convergence
Technological convergence, also called digital convergence, is the merging of previously independent technologies, such as telecommunications and computing, into new hybrid devices like the smartphone.