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Liberty Broadband

Liberty Broadband Corporation was an American holding company spun off from Liberty Media in 2014 whose principal asset was a large ownership stake in Charter Communications.

Liberty Global

Liberty Global is an international provider of broadband, video, telephony and mobile services in Europe with about 80 million connections, operating Virgin Media O2, VodafoneZiggo, and Telenet.

Liberty Oilfield Services

Liberty Oilfield Services, since 2022 named Liberty Energy Inc., is a Denver, Colorado provider of hydraulic fracturing services to onshore oil and gas producers, founded in 2011.

Liberty Resources II, LLC

Liberty Resources II, LLC is a privately held, Denver-based oil and gas acquisition and development company formed in November 2013 by the leadership of predecessor Liberty Resources LLC, backed by Riverstone.

Liberty ship

The Liberty ship, designated EC2-S-C1, was an American cargo ship of World War II, with 2,710 built between 1941 and 1945 to carry war supplies to the Allies.

libFuzzer

libFuzzer is a coverage-guided, in-process, evolutionary fuzzing engine that is part of the LLVM project, used by Google's OSS-Fuzz service to test over 1000 open source projects.

LiblibAI

LiblibAI is a Chinese AI image-creation and model-sharing platform based in Beijing, founded by Chen Mian in 2023, offering image generation, design agents, and AI video tools.

Library (computing)

In computing, a library, also called a software library, is a collection of prewritten code that programs call to reuse tested functionality instead of writing it from scratch.

Library catalog

A library catalog, long kept as a card catalog, is a searchable register of the materials held by one library or many, today mostly online, with WorldCat the largest union catalog.

Library Genesis

Library Genesis (LibGen) is a shadow library offering pirated scholarly books and articles free, started by Russian scientists around 2008 and holding over 81 million papers by 2025.

Library of Congress Control Number

The Library of Congress Control Number (LCCN) is a unique number the Library of Congress assigns to each book's catalog record, first issued in 1898 as the Library of Congress Card Number.

Libration point orbit insertion and maneuver design

Libration point orbit insertion and maneuver design covers the burns that place a spacecraft onto an orbit around the Sun-Earth or Earth-Moon L1 or L2 points.

Libration point station-keeping

Libration point station-keeping is the regular propulsive corrections that keep a spacecraft near an unstable Lagrange point, since uncontrolled craft drift away within weeks or months.

LibreOffice

LibreOffice, also known as BrOffice.org, is a free and open source office suite developed by The Document Foundation as the successor to OpenOffice.org, running on Windows, macOS, and Linux.

LibrePilot

LibrePilot is an open-source autopilot project for drones, model aircraft, and robots, founded in July 2015 as a continuation of OpenPilot and released under GPLv3.

LibriSpeech

LibriSpeech is a corpus of about 1,000 hours of 16 kHz read English speech for speech recognition research, built from LibriVox audiobooks and released in 2015.

LibriTTS

LibriTTS is a multi-speaker English speech corpus of about 585 hours of read speech at 24 kHz, prepared by Google and released in 2019 for text-to-speech research.

Libya Coastal Gas Pipeline

The Libya Coastal Gas Pipeline is an onshore natural gas pipeline in Libya running 1,164 km from Mellitah to Benghazi, operated by the National Oil Corporation.

Libyan Arab Airlines Flight 1103

Libyan Arab Airlines Flight 1103 was a passenger flight from Benghazi to Tripoli that collided with a Libyan Air Force MiG-23 in December 1992, killing everyone aboard.

Libyan Arab Airlines Flight 114

Libyan Arab Airlines Flight 114 was a passenger flight from Tripoli to Cairo whose Boeing 727 was shot down by Israeli fighters over Sinai in 1973, killing 108 of 113 aboard.

Licensed Assisted Access

Licensed Assisted Access (LAA) is a 3GPP standard, first specified in LTE Release 13, that lets mobile operators transmit on 5 GHz unlicensed spectrum shared with Wi-Fi.

LICIACube

LICIACube (Light Italian Cubesat for Imaging of Asteroids) is an Italian Space Agency CubeSat that flew past the asteroid Dimorphos in 2022 and photographed NASA's DART impact.

Lickleyhead Castle

Lickleyhead Castle is a 16th-century L-plan laird's house near Auchleven in Aberdeenshire, Scotland, remodeled in 1629 for John Forbes and now a Category A listed holiday let.

LiDAR mapping

LiDAR mapping is an active remote sensing method that measures distances with laser pulses, producing 3D point clouds and elevation models of terrain, vegetation, and water.

LiDAR odometry

LiDAR odometry is a robotics and computer vision method that estimates a sensor's 6-DoF motion by registering successive LiDAR point cloud scans, supporting localization, SLAM, and autonomous navigation.

LiDAR-based SLAM

LiDAR-based SLAM is a family of simultaneous localization and mapping methods in which a laser sensor measures distances, letting robots build maps and find their position in real time.

Lidcombe & Bankstown Line

The T6 Lidcombe & Bankstown Line, also called the Bankstown and Lidcombe Line, is a Sydney Trains shuttle serving six stations between Lidcombe and Bankstown, created in 2024.

Liddell power station

Liddell power station was a coal-fired power station in the Hunter Valley of New South Wales, Australia, which operated from 1971 until its closure in 2023.

Lie group methods for robot dynamics

Lie group methods for robot dynamics treat a robot's configuration as an element of a Lie group, such as SO(3) or SE(3), avoiding Euler-angle singularities.

Liebherr Group

The Liebherr Group is a family-owned German technology group founded in 1949 by Hans Liebherr, manufacturing construction machinery, cranes, mining equipment, aerospace components, and refrigerators.