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Kodachi OS

Kodachi OS, formerly published as Linux Kodachi, is a Debian-based Linux distribution for privacy and security that routes all traffic through a VPN and Tor by default.

Kodachrome

Kodachrome is a color photographic film introduced by Eastman Kodak in 1935, first as 16mm movie film and later as 35mm slide film; production ended in 2009.

Kodak

Kodak, formally the Eastman Kodak Company, is an American technology company founded by George Eastman in Rochester, New York, in 1881, that dominated consumer photography for most of the 20th century.

Kodak Brownie

The Kodak Brownie was a line of low-priced roll-film cameras introduced by Eastman Kodak in February 1900, whose one-dollar original made photography a mass hobby.

Kodak DCS 100

The Kodak DCS 100, originally the Kodak Professional Digital Camera System, was the first commercially available digital SLR camera, launched by Eastman Kodak in May 1991.

Kodak Instamatic

The Kodak Instamatic was a line of inexpensive, easy-to-use snapshot cameras introduced by Eastman Kodak in 1963 around the drop-in Kodapak 126 film cartridge, selling roughly 70 million units.

Kodak No. 1

The Kodak No. 1 was a box camera made by Eastman Kodak from 1889 to 1895, loaded with film for 100 exposures and returned to the factory for processing.

Koderma Thermal Power Station

Koderma Thermal Power Station is a 1,000 MW coal-fired power station of the Damodar Valley Corporation at Benjhidih, Jharkhand, India, with two 500 MW units commissioned in 2013 and 2014.

Kodi (software)

Kodi is a free, open source media player developed by the Kodi Foundation, which began as XBMC on the Xbox in 2002 and was renamed Kodi in 2014.

Kodiak Gas Services

Kodiak Gas Services is an American natural gas compression company headquartered in The Woodlands, Texas, founded in 2010 and listed on the NYSE in 2023.

Koeberg nuclear power plant

The Koeberg nuclear power plant is South Africa's twin-unit pressurized water reactor station near Cape Town, supplying about 1,800 MW, roughly 5% of the country's electricity.

Koenig & Bauer

Koenig & Bauer is a German printing press manufacturer headquartered in Würzburg. Founded in 1817, it is the world's oldest, making offset, flexo, and digital presses.

Koenig Specials

Koenig Specials is a German automotive tuning company in Munich, founded by racing driver Willy König, famous for widebody turbo conversions of Ferrari and Porsche supercars.

Koenigsegg

Koenigsegg is a Swedish manufacturer of extreme high-performance sports cars, which it calls megacars, founded by Christian von Koenigsegg in 1994 and based in Ängelholm, Sweden.

Koenigsegg Agera

The Koenigsegg Agera is a Swedish mid-engine, twin-turbocharged V8 hypercar built from 2010 to 2018, whose Agera RS variant set a production-car top speed record of 277.87 mph in Nevada in 2017.

Koenigsegg CCX

The Koenigsegg CCX is a twin-supercharged V8 hypercar built by Koenigsegg in Ängelholm, Sweden, from 2006 to 2010, with 806 horsepower and a top speed above 245 mph.

Koenigsegg Gemera

The Koenigsegg Gemera is a limited-production four-seat hybrid grand tourer built by Koenigsegg in Ängelholm, Sweden; revealed in 2020, it produces up to 2,300 hp and entered production in 2026.

Koenigsegg Jesko

The Koenigsegg Jesko is a track-focused, road-legal hypercar built by Koenigsegg in Ängelholm, Sweden, since 2019, successor to the Agera RS and unveiled at the 2019 Geneva Motor Show.

Koenigsegg Regera

The Koenigsegg Regera is a Swedish plug-in hybrid grand touring sports car built from 2016 to 2022, combining a twin-turbo V8 with three electric motors for over 1,500 hp.

Kogan Creek power station

Kogan Creek power station is a 750 megawatt supercritical black-coal-fired power station near Chinchilla in Queensland, Australia, commissioned in 2007, with the largest single generating unit in Australia and distinctive air cooling.

Koganei

Koganei Corporation (株式会社コガネイ) is a Japanese manufacturer of pneumatic actuators, valves, electric actuators, and static electricity removal units, founded in 1934 and headquartered in Koganei City, Tokyo.

Kohler Co.

Kohler Co., also called Kohler Company, is an American privately held manufacturer of kitchen and bath fixtures, founded in Sheboygan, Wisconsin, in 1873 and still led by the Kohler family.

Kōji Kobayashi (electronics engineer)

Kōji Kobayashi (小林宏治) was a Japanese electronics engineer who spent his career at NEC, becoming president in 1964 and conceiving the C&C strategy of integrating computers and communications.

Kokaral Dam

The Kokaral Dam (Кокаральская плотина), also called the Kok-Aral dam, is a 13-kilometer earthen dam in Kazakhstan, built from 2003 to 2005 to restore the North Aral Sea.

Kokoro (AI model)

Kokoro is an open-weight text-to-speech model with 82 million parameters, released by pseudonymous developer hexgrad in December 2024, reaching number 1 in the TTS Spaces Arena despite rivals being far larger.

Kokusai Denshin Denwa

Kokusai Denshin Denwa (KDD) was the Japanese company that held a legal monopoly on international telecommunications from 1953 until 1985, then merged into KDDI in 2000.

Kola nuclear power plant

The Kola nuclear power plant (Кольская АЭС) is a Russian nuclear power station with four VVER-440 reactors, first supplying electricity in 1973 near Polyarnye Zori in Murmansk Oblast.

Kolaghat Thermal Power Station

Kolaghat Thermal Power Station (কোলাঘাট তাপবিদ্যুৎ কেন্দ্র), also known as KTPS, is a coal-fired power station at Kolaghat in West Bengal, India, owned by WBPDCL.

Kolb Firestar

The Kolb Firestar is a family of American high-wing, pusher-propeller ultralight and light experimental aircraft designed by Homer Kolb, introduced in 1984 in single-seat and two-seat versions.

Kolibri Pistol

The Kolibri Pistol is an Austrian semi-automatic pocket pistol designed by watchmaker Franz Pfannl around World War I, firing the smallest centerfire cartridge ever produced.