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Upstage (업스테이지)
Upstage (업스테이지) is a Seoul-based artificial intelligence startup founded in October 2020 by ex-Naver researchers, known for its Solar large language models and document-processing AI, and a member of Korea's sovereign AI program.
Upstairs Downstairs (2010 TV series)
Upstairs Downstairs (2010–2012), BBC One revival of the 1970s ITV classic, created by Heidi Thomas, set in 1936 at 165 Eaton Place with Jean Marsh as Rose Buck; nine episodes, canceled 2012 after ratings fell against Downton Abbey.
Upstairs, Downstairs (1971 TV series)
Upstairs, Downstairs is a British ITV drama created by Eileen Atkins and Jean Marsh, broadcast 1971–1975, following the Bellamy family and servants at 165 Eaton Place.
Upstart Crow
Upstart Crow is a BBC Two sitcom (2016–2020) created and written by Ben Elton, starring David Mitchell as William Shakespeare, with Liza Tarbuck as Anne Hathaway and Mark Heap as Robert Greene, whose 1592 "upstart crow" insult gives the show its title; three series, Christmas specials, a West End stage adaptation, and a 2026 BBC cancellation.
Upstate New York
Upstate New York is the part of New York State outside New York City, Long Island, and the Hudson Valley, covering seven regions including Buffalo, Rochester, Syracuse, and Albany, shaped by the Erie Canal and facing slow growth.
Upstate South Carolina
Upstate South Carolina, also called the Upcountry, is the northwestern corner of the state along the I-85 corridor, anchored by Greenville and Spartanburg and built on manufacturing, including BMW's Plant Spartanburg.
Upstream (petroleum industry)
Upstream is the segment of the petroleum industry covering exploration, extraction, and production of crude oil and natural gas, classified under NAICS 211 and followed by midstream and downstream refining.
UpStream Care
UpStream Care, also known as UpStream Healthcare, is a Greensboro, North Carolina company that helps independent primary care practices take financial responsibility for caring for Medicare seniors.
Upstream Color
Upstream Color (2013) is Shane Carruth's experimental sci-fi follow-up to Primer, starring Amy Seimetz; a parasite links a woman, pigs, and orchids in a looping narrative that won Sundance's Sound Design award.
Upstream Stimulatory Factor
Upstream stimulatory factor (USF-1/USF-2) is a ubiquitous bHLH-LZ transcription factor family binding E-box (CANNTG) motifs, regulating stress, immune, metabolic, and pigmentation gene networks; USF1 links to familial combined hyperlipidemia.
Upstream Wind Energy Center
Upstream Wind Energy Center is a 202.5-megawatt wind farm in Antelope County, Nebraska, just north of Neligh, developed by Invenergy and operational since January 2019 with 81 GE turbines.
Upsweep
Upsweep is a long-running, unidentified underwater sound in the South Pacific, recorded by NOAA's hydrophones since August 1991 and loud enough to be heard across the Pacific.
Uptake (company)
Uptake is an American industrial artificial intelligence company whose machine learning software predicts failures in heavy equipment fleets, founded in 2014 by Brad Keywell and Eric Lefkofsky.
Uptake Technologies, Inc.
Uptake Technologies, Inc. is a Chicago-based industrial-AI software company founded in 2015, known for predictive maintenance and analytics software for commercial fleets, acquired by Bosch.
Uptempo hardcore
Uptempo hardcore is a fast subgenre of hardcore electronic dance music that emerged in the Netherlands in the early 2010s, defined by distorted kicks, screeching leads, and tempos past 200 BPM.
Uptight
Uptight (Up Tight!), 1968 American drama by blacklisted director Jules Dassin; all-Black remake of Ford's The Informer set in Cleveland after MLK's assassination; Paramount; box-office failure; Booker T. Jones score.
Uptime Institute Tier classification
The Uptime Institute Tier classification is a four-level system rating data center infrastructure by capacity, redundancy, and fault tolerance, created by Uptime Institute in the mid-1990s.
UpToDate
UpToDate is an evidence-based clinical decision support resource for clinicians across 25 medical specialties, founded in 1992 by nephrologist Burton Rose and owned by Wolters Kluwer since 2007.
Upton Sinclair
Upton Sinclair (1878–1968), American muckraking novelist and socialist activist, author of The Jungle (1906), whose exposé of Chicago meatpacking spurred the 1906 Pure Food and Drug and Meat Inspection Acts; Pulitzer winner for Dragon's Teeth and 1934 EPIC candidate for California governor.
Upton Stout
Upton Stout (born 2002) is an NFL cornerback, No. 20 for the San Francisco 49ers; a 2025 third-round pick (100th overall) from Western Kentucky who plays nickel corner.
Upton-by-Chester
Upton-by-Chester is a civil parish and residential suburb about 2 miles north of Chester, Cheshire, including Upton and Upton Heath; Chester Zoo was founded there in 1931.
Uptonia
Uptonia, an extinct Early Jurassic ammonite genus (Polymorphitidae) established by Buckman 1898; type species U. jamesoni (Sowerby 1827), index of the basal Pliensbachian Jamesoni Zone across Europe and western North America.
Uptown Funk
Uptown Funk: 2014 funk-pop single by Mark Ronson featuring Bruno Mars, lead single from Uptown Special. 14 weeks at US No. 1, best-selling single of 2015, Grammy Record of the Year, later credits changed after Gap Band similarity claim.
Uptown Girl
Uptown Girl: Billy Joel's 1983 single from An Innocent Man, a Four Seasons-homage pop rock song produced by Phil Ramone; US No. 3, UK No. 1, famous Christie Brinkley video, Westlife 2001 cover.
Uptown Girls
Uptown Girls is a 2003 American comedy-drama film directed by Boaz Yakin, in which Brittany Murphy plays a spoiled rock star's daughter who becomes nanny to Dakota Fanning's precocious eight-year-old.
Uptown, Chicago
Uptown is Chicago community area #3 on the North Side lakefront, once an entertainment district rivaling the Loop, now a diverse neighborhood known for the Uptown Theatre, Green Mill, and Argyle Street's Vietnamese corridor.
Upu
Upu, also written Upi and identified with Apum, was a Bronze Age Syrian territory centered on Damascus and the Beqaa plain, known from Egyptian execration texts and the Amarna letters.
Upulevo Fluctus
Upulevo Fluctus is a 113 km lava flow feature (fluctus) on Jupiter's moon Io, centered at -79.88°, 314.92°, named in 2023 for a Timor Island sun god.
Upunusa Tholus
Upunusa Tholus is a 223-km-wide tholus (domical hill) on Venus at 66.2N, 252.4E, IAU-approved in 1985 and named for the Earth goddess of Leti and Babar, eastern Indonesia; third-largest named Venusian tholus.
Upvest
Upvest is a Berlin-based fintech founded in 2017 that provides API-first investment infrastructure covering trading, custody, and settlement for banks and neobanks like Revolut and N26, processing over 100 million orders annually.