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Whydah Gally
The Whydah Gally was a slave ship captured by the pirate Samuel Bellamy in 1717 and wrecked off Cape Cod, the first pirate shipwreck positively identified.
WhyKiiiKiii
WhyKiiiKiii is the third EP by K-pop girl group KiiiKiii (키키), released 10 August 2026 by Starship Entertainment with title track Pop Off Pop Off; six tracks, about 82,000 first-week copies, number one on Spotify Korea.
WhyLabs
WhyLabs (WhyLabs, Inc.) was a Seattle AI observability company founded in 2019, maker of the AI Control Center and open-source whylogs and LangKit; it raised $14M, was reportedly acquired by Apple in 2025, then discontinued operations and open-sourced its platform.
whylogs
whylogs is WhyLabs' open source, Apache-2.0 data logging library that generates compact, mergeable statistical profiles of datasets for drift, data quality, and ML monitoring; its commercial host WhyLabs shut down in 2025.
Whyo
Whyo is a two-row mancala-style board game from Oron, Nigeria, named after the English exclamation "Why oh!". Two rows of six holes, four counters each, anti-clockwise sowing, capture by making a hole hold four counters.
Whyte notation
Whyte notation, also known as the Whyte classification, is a system for classifying steam locomotives by wheel arrangement, devised by Frederick Methvan Whyte and standard in North America and the United Kingdom.
Wi Ha-joon (위하준)
Wi Ha-joon (위하준), born 1991 in Wando County, is a South Korean actor and model under MSTeam Entertainment, known as Detective Hwang Jun-ho in Squid Game and for Gonjiam: Haunted Asylum, Midnight, Little Women, and The Worst of Evil.
WI Harper Group
WI Harper Group is a cross-border venture capital firm headquartered in San Francisco that invests in early-stage technology and healthcare companies in the United States and Greater China.
WI-38
WI-38 (Wistar Institute 38) is a finite human diploid lung fibroblast strain derived by Leonard Hayflick from a 3-month-gestation female fetus, the first human diploid cell line used in vaccine preparation and the classic model of replicative senescence.
WI-38 VA13 subline 2RA
WI-38 VA13 subline 2RA (VA13-2RA, CVCL_2759, ATCC CCL-75.1) is an SV40-transformed, immortalized derivative of the WI-38 fetal lung fibroblast line, derived in 1964; an ALT-positive, hyperdiploid model of viral transformation.
Wi-Fi
Wi-Fi is the commercial name for wireless local area networking based on the IEEE 802.11 standards, connecting devices by radio in homes, offices, and public spaces.
Wi-Fi 6
Wi-Fi 6 is the Wi-Fi Alliance's market name, introduced in 2018, for wireless products based on IEEE 802.11ax, the sixth Wi-Fi generation, certified from 2019 and built for dense environments.
Wi-Fi 7
Wi-Fi 7, the marketing name for IEEE 802.11be (Extremely High Throughput), succeeded Wi-Fi 6 with 320 MHz channels, 4096-QAM, and multi-link operation across the 2.4, 5, and 6 GHz bands.
Wi-Fi 8
Wi-Fi 8 is the marketing name for IEEE 802.11bn, an IEEE wireless LAN standard due around 2028 that prioritizes reliable, low-latency connectivity over higher peak speeds.
Wi-Fi Alliance
The Wi-Fi Alliance, founded in 1999 as the Wireless Ethernet Compatibility Alliance, is a trade consortium that certifies Wi-Fi products and owns the Wi-Fi trademark.
Wi-Fi deauthentication attack
A Wi-Fi deauthentication attack, also known as a deauth attack, is a denial-of-service attack in which forged deauthentication frames force clients to disconnect from a wireless access point.
Wi-Fi Direct
Wi-Fi Direct, also called Wi-Fi P2P, is a Wi-Fi Alliance protocol that lets devices connect directly without a wireless access point, used for file transfer and printing.
Wi-Fi fingerprinting
Wi-Fi fingerprinting is an indoor positioning technique that estimates a device's location by matching measured Wi-Fi signal strengths against a pre-built database collected at known positions.
Wi-Fi Location
Wi-Fi Location, also called Wi-Fi Round Trip Time (RTT) ranging, is a protocol from IEEE 802.11mc that measures a device's distance to access points for indoor positioning.
Wi-Fi Protected Access
Wi-Fi Protected Access (WPA) is a family of Wi-Fi security certification programs from the Wi-Fi Alliance providing authentication and encryption, introduced in 2003 as an interim fix for the broken WEP standard.
Wi-Fi Protected Setup
Wi-Fi Protected Setup, or Wi-Fi Simple Config, is a 2006 Wi-Fi Alliance standard letting devices join a secured home network by button press or PIN.
Wibald
Wibald (Latin Wibaldus; 1098–1158) was a Benedictine abbot of Stablo-Malmedy and Corvey who served Emperors Lothair III, Conrad III, and Frederick Barbarossa as diplomat and adviser.
WIC
WIC (Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children) is a USDA Food and Nutrition Service program giving food, nutrition education, and referrals to low-income at-risk pregnant, postpartum, breastfeeding women, infants, and children under 5; 1972 pilot, permanent 1975, about 6.6 million monthly participants.
WIC Radio Ltd v Simpson
WIC Radio Ltd v Simpson, 2008 SCC 40, is a Supreme Court of Canada defamation case in which Rafe Mair's fair comment defence succeeded against Kari Simpson, replacing subjective honest belief with an objective test.
Wicca
Wicca is a modern pagan religion founded by Gerald Gardner, a retired British civil servant who publicized it in the 1950s, worshipping a Goddess and Horned God.
Wiccan (character)
Wiccan, also known as Billy Kaplan, is a Marvel Comics superhero and Young Avenger who wields chaos magic, created by Allan Heinberg and Jim Cheung in 2005.
Wiccan Rede
The Wiccan Rede is the ethical maxim of the Wiccan religion, "An it harm none, do what ye will," first spoken publicly by Doreen Valiente in the mid-1960s.
Wiccan views of divinity
Wiccan views of divinity, also known as Wiccan theology or Wiccan ditheism, are the range of Wiccan understandings of the Goddess and God, from duotheism to polytheism and monism.
Wichayanee Pearklin
Wichayanee Pearklin, known as Gam Wichayanee, is a Thai singer who won The Star season 4 in 2008 and voices Thai Elsa in Disney's Frozen.
Wichita
Wichita, Kansas: largest city in Kansas and Sedgwick County seat, called the Air Capital of the World for its aircraft industry (Cessna, Beechcraft, Spirit AeroSystems) and formerly Cowtown for its 1870s cattle drives.