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Empulse (video game)

Empulse (EMPULSE) is a 6v6 movement shooter by 1047 Games, the Splitgate studio, launched in Early Access June 24, 2026 on PC, PS5, and Xbox; wall-running, grappling, and contested mechs, halted August 2026.

Empusa (μπουσα)

Empusa (Ἔμπουσα, Empousa) was a shape-shifting female phantom of Greek folklore in Hecate's entourage, with one bronze and one donkey leg, who seduced and devoured men; known from Aristophanes' Frogs and Philostratus' Life of Apollonius.

Empyrean

The empyrean, or Empyrean Heaven, is the highest heaven of medieval cosmology, a realm of pure light and the dwelling of God and the blessed.

EMR Capital

EMR Capital is a Melbourne-based private equity firm investing in mining and metals assets, formed in 2013 with its first fund closing at USD 450 million.

Emraan Hashmi

Emraan Hashmi (born 1979, Mumbai) is an Indian Hindi-film actor who debuted in Footpath (2003), rose with Murder and Jannat, shed the 'serial kisser' tag, and re-emerged via Tiger 3, Taskaree, and Haq.

Emrah

Emrah (Emrah Erdoğan İpek) is a Turkish singer and actor who rose to fame as child star "Küçük Emrah" in 1983 and became a 1990s pop idol.

eMRAM

eMRAM (embedded Magnetoresistive Random Access Memory) is non-volatile memory integrated onto logic chips, storing data magnetically; Samsung began mass production on its 28nm FD-SOI process in 2019.

Emre (Overwatch)

Emre (Emre Sarıoğlu) is a Damage hero added to Overwatch on 10 February 2026, the 48th hero and first male DPS since launch; an ex-Overwatch operative who disappeared and resurfaced on Talon's side with cybernetic implants.

Emre Belözoğlu

Emre Belözoğlu (born 1980, Istanbul), Turkish midfielder and manager; played Galatasaray, Inter, Newcastle, Atlético, Fenerbahçe, Başakşehir; 101 Turkey caps, 2002 World Cup third place; now Kasımpaşa head coach.

Emre Bey

Emre Bey (born 1997, Istanbul) is a Turkish actor who debuted in Aşk Zamanı (2015), broke through as Kıvanç in Adı Efsane and Ertan in Balkan Ninnisi, played Orhan Gazi in Kuruluş: Osman (2023–2025), and leads in Rüya Gibi (2025).

Emre Can

Emre Can, born 1994 in Frankfurt, is a German midfielder-defender and Borussia Dortmund captain since 2023, formerly of Bayern Munich, Leverkusen, Liverpool, and Juventus, with 48 Germany caps.

Emre Fel

Emre Fel, real name Emre Öztürk, is a Turkish singer, guitarist, and songwriter born in 1998, known for his "Yeni Anadolu" style that updates Anatolian rock, with the hit "Sana El Pençe Durmam".

Emre Mor

Emre Mor, born 1997 in Copenhagen, Turkish left-footed winger; Nordsjaelland, Borussia Dortmund, Celta Vigo, Galatasaray, Fenerbahçe, now NEC Nijmegen; 15 Turkey caps.

Ems

Ems (Pleiades 108961, BAtlas 11 H2) is the Roman site at Bad Ems on the Lahn, Germany: 1st-century silver-prospecting camps with preserved wooden spike defenses, a Limes cohort fort, and UNESCO-listed frontier components.

Ems Ukaz

The Ems Ukaz, also known as the Ems Act or Yuzefovich law, was a secret decree by Tsar Alexander II in 1876 banning most Ukrainian-language publications in the Russian Empire.

EMS-Chemie Holding

EMS-Chemie Holding AG is a Swiss specialty chemicals group headquartered in Domat/Ems, in the canton of Graubünden, that concentrates on high-performance polyamide compounds and automotive adhesives, sealants, and coatings.

Emscripten

Emscripten is an open source compiler toolchain that compiles C and C++ code, or any LLVM-based language, into WebAssembly for the Web and Node.js; it was created by Alon Zakai.

Emsland nuclear power plant

The Emsland nuclear power plant (Kernkraftwerk Emsland, KKE) was a pressurized water reactor at Lingen in Lower Saxony, Germany, operating from 1988 until its shutdown in April 2023.

Emsland power station

The Emsland power station, also known as Gaskraftwerk Emsland, is a natural-gas-fired power station operated by RWE in Lingen, Germany, with three units totaling 1,828 MW.

Emsworth

Emsworth is a harbourside town in Havant borough, Hampshire, at the head of Chichester Harbour on the River Ems. First recorded in 1216, it was a leading English oyster port until the 1902 typhoid outbreak that killed the Dean of Winchester closed its harbour.

Emtee

Emtee (Mthembeni Ndevu, born 1992, Matatiele) is a South African rapper behind "Roll Up" and African trap music; platinum debut Avery, Emtee Records founder, Logan and The Trap Temptations chart-topper.

Emtricitabine

Emtricitabine (FTC, Emtriva) is a nucleoside reverse transcriptase inhibitor approved by the FDA in 2003 for HIV-1 treatment; with tenofovir it forms Truvada and Descovy, used for treatment and PrEP, and is clinically interchangeable with lamivudine.

Emtricitabine/tenofovir

Emtricitabine/tenofovir disoproxil fumarate (FTC/TDF, Truvada) is a fixed-dose HIV pill approved for treatment in 2004 and as the first PrEP drug in 2012; pooled trials show RR 0.46 versus placebo, with adherence-dependent effectiveness and renal/bone cautions.

Emu

The emu (Dromaius novaehollandiae) is Australia's tallest native bird, a flightless ratite found only in Australia. Males incubate 5–15 dark green eggs for about 55 days without eating; extinct dwarf island forms existed.

Emu (BAAI multimodal family)

Emu is a family of multimodal AI models from the Beijing Academy of Artificial Intelligence, released from 2023 to 2025 and trained to generate text, images, and video.

Emu Bay Shale

Emu Bay Shale: early Cambrian (~512 Ma) Burgess Shale-type Lagerstätte on Kangaroo Island, South Australia; over 50 soft-bodied species, discovered 1954, fan delta in tectonically active basin.

Emu War

The Great Emu War (1932), a pest-control operation in Western Australia's Wheatbelt where Major G.P.W. Meredith and three Royal Australian Artillery soldiers with two Lewis guns and 10,000 rounds failed to cull about 20,000 crop-destroying emus near Campion.

Emu3

Emu3 is a family of multimodal AI models developed by BAAI that generates and understands text, images, and video using only next-token prediction, first released in September 2024.

Emulator

Emulator: software or FPGA hardware that reproduces one computing system on another, letting console, arcade, and vintage computer software run on modern platforms; central to digital preservation, with accuracy-versus-performance tradeoffs, MAME, and copyright constraints.

Emulex (explosive)

Emulex is a brand name for a family of packaged and bulk emulsion explosives, water-in-oil blasting agents based on ammonium nitrate, named by Atlas Powder Company, which patented the technology in 1969.