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Toran Bruce Richards

Toran Bruce Richards (born 1998) is a British software developer and entrepreneur who created AutoGPT in 2023, an open-source AI agent that became one of GitHub's most-starred repositories.

Toranomon Incident

The Toranomon Incident (虎ノ門事件) was a failed assassination attempt on Prince Regent Hirohito by anarchist Namba Daisuke in Tokyo on 27 December 1923; the cabinet resigned.

Toratau UNESCO Global Geopark

Toratau UNESCO Global Geopark, in Bashkortostan, Russia, designated 2026 as Russia's second UGGp after Yangan-Tau; features the Toratau, Yuraktau, and Kushtau shikhans, remnants of a 280-300-million-year-old barrier reef.

Torave Ramayana

Torave Ramayana (ತೊರವೆಯ ರಾಮಾಯಣ) is a sixteenth-century Kannada retelling of the Ramayana by Narahari of Torave, the epic's most widely circulated Kannada version and a principal text of Karnataka's gamaka recitation tradition.

Toray Industries

Toray Industries, Inc. (東レ株式会社) is a Japanese advanced-materials company founded in 1926, the world's leading carbon fiber maker and sole supplier of airframe structural material for the Boeing 787.

Torben C. Rick

Torben C. Rick is an American archaeologist and curator at the Smithsonian's National Museum of Natural History, elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 2023.

Torben Daeneke

Torben Daeneke is an Australian inorganic chemist at RMIT University in Melbourne who leads the Liquid Metal Research Group, working on liquid metal catalysis and two-dimensional materials.

Torben G. Andersen

Torben G. Andersen is a financial econometrician, the Sharp Professor of Finance at Northwestern's Kellogg School since 1991, best known for making daily volatility observable through realized volatility.

Torben Grael

Torben Schmidt Grael, Brazilian sailor born 1960 in São Paulo, first sailor with five Olympic medals (2 gold, Star class with Marcelo Ferreira), 2008/09 Volvo Ocean Race winner, Luna Rossa tactician, brother of Lars, father of Martine.

Torben Heick Jensen

Torben Heick Jensen (born 1965) is a Danish molecular biologist and professor at Aarhus University, known for defining the NEXT and PAXT nuclear RNA decay pathways.

Torben Ulrich

Torben Ulrich (1928–2023), Danish tennis player, journalist, jazz musician, and visual artist; Danish-record 102 Davis Cup matches, 19 Danish titles, Wimbledon doubles semifinalist 1959; father of Metallica drummer Lars Ulrich.

Torbešija

Torbešija (Торбешија), also Torbesh region, is a region in North Macedonia named after the Torbeši, Macedonian-speaking Muslims; narrowly seven Skopje-area villages, broadly 40 municipalities in Kosovo, Albania, and North Macedonia.

Torbjörn Caspersson

Torbjörn Oskar Caspersson was a Swedish cytochemist and cytologist who used ultraviolet microscopy to measure nucleic acids in cells and developed Q-banding, making every human chromosome identifiable.

Torbjörn Tomson

Torbjörn Tomson is a Swedish neurologist and epileptologist, senior professor at Karolinska Institutet, who leads the EURAP pregnancy registry and studies SUDEP and antiepileptic drug safety in pregnancy.

Torc

Torc (also torque): a rigid, usually penannular metal neck ring with front terminals, worn from the European Middle Bronze Age through the Iron Age, especially by Celts; famous examples include the Snettisham Great Torc and the Ipswich Torcs.

Torc Robotics

Torc Robotics is an American autonomous vehicle company in Blacksburg, Virginia, founded in 2005, that develops Level 4 self-driving long-haul freight trucks and is owned by Daimler Truck.

Torch

A torch, called a flashlight in American and Canadian English, is a small handheld electric lamp powered by dry batteries, invented in the late 1890s.

Torch (machine learning)

Torch is an open-source machine learning library and scientific computing framework built on Lua, best known as Torch7; developed at Idiap, NEC Labs, and NYU, its design shaped PyTorch, which superseded it.

Torch Capital

Torch Capital is a New York-based early-stage venture capital firm founded by Jonathan Keidan in 2018 that invests in tech-enabled consumer brands, platforms, and infrastructure.

Torch Song Trilogy

Torch Song Trilogy is Harvey Fierstein's three-part play about Arnold Beckoff, a Jewish gay drag performer in New York. Composed of The International Stud, Fugue in a Nursery, and Widows and Children First!, it ran 1,230 Broadway performances from 1982 and won 1983 Tony Awards for Best Play and Best Actor.

Torche

Torche is an American stoner/sludge metal band from Miami, Florida, formed in 2004 after the breakup of Floor, known for a melodic "doom pop" sound.

Torchlight Debt

Torchlight Debt is the series of private commercial real estate debt funds managed by Torchlight Investors, a New York firm founded by Daniel Heflin in 1995.

TorchMD-Net

TorchMD-Net is an open-source library for neural network potentials, machine-learned models that predict molecular energies and forces, introduced in 2022 by Philipp Thölke and Gianni De Fabritiis.

TorchRL

TorchRL is an open-source, Python-first reinforcement learning library for PyTorch, offering environments, transforms, models, data collectors, and replay buffers, with the TensorDict carrying data between components.

TorchScript

TorchScript is a serializable, optimizable representation of PyTorch models produced by tracing or scripting, introduced with PyTorch 1.0 in 2018 for production and mobile deployment, and deprecated in PyTorch 2.10.

Torchwood

Torchwood (2006–2011) is a British adult science fiction series, a Doctor Who spin-off created by Russell T Davies starring John Barrowman as immortal Captain Jack Harkness, leading Torchwood Three in Cardiff; its name is an anagram of Doctor Who.

Torchwood: Miracle Day

Torchwood: Miracle Day is the fourth, ten-episode series of Torchwood (2011), a BBC Cymru Wales, BBC Worldwide, and Starz co-production created by Russell T Davies, in which nobody on Earth dies; John Barrowman and Eve Myles return with Mekhi Phifer and Bill Pullman.

Torchy's Tacos

Torchy's Tacos is an American fast-casual taco chain founded by chef Mike Rypka out of a food trailer in Austin, Texas, in 2006, with more than 130 locations.

TORDIA trial

TORDIA (Treatment of SSRI-Resistant Depression in Adolescents), NIMH-funded six-site RCT, 334 teens aged 12-18, 2000-2006; CBT plus antidepressant switch beat medication switch alone (54.8% vs 40.5% response); venlafaxine no better than a second SSRI.

Tordis Oil and Gas Field

Tordis is an oil field in the Tampen area of the northern North Sea, discovered in 1987 and producing since 1994 as a subsea tieback to Gullfaks C, operated by Equinor.