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Mobile telephony

Mobile telephony, also called cellular telephony, provides telephone service to moving users through a radio network of base stations, beginning with the first handheld call in 1973.

Mobile TeleSystems

Mobile TeleSystems (MTS) is a Russian public joint-stock telecommunications company, founded in 1993, that is the largest mobile operator in Russia, with 89 million subscribers.

Mobile virtual network operator

A mobile virtual network operator (MVNO), also called a virtual mobile operator, is a mobile carrier that leases network capacity from another operator and resells it under its own brand.

Mobile World Congress

Mobile World Congress (MWC) is the annual mobile-industry trade fair organized by the GSMA, held in Barcelona, Spain, since 2006 and drawing over 100,000 attendees.

MobileBERT

MobileBERT is a compact, task-agnostic version of the BERT language model released by Google and Carnegie Mellon researchers in 2020 for natural language processing on mobile devices.

MobileCoin, Inc.

MobileCoin, Inc. is a San Francisco cryptocurrency company, founded in 2017, that built MOB, a privacy-oriented digital cash cryptocurrency deployed as the payment rail for Signal's in-app payments.

MobileLLM

MobileLLM is a family of small language models developed by Meta for inference on mobile devices, spanning 125M to 1.5B parameters and first published at ICML 2024.

MobileNet

MobileNet is a family of efficient convolutional neural networks for computer vision, designed by Google researchers to run image classification and detection on mobile phones and embedded devices.

Mobileye

Mobileye, also known as Mobileye Global Inc., is an Israeli company in Jerusalem that develops camera-based driver-assistance and self-driving technology centered on its EyeQ chips, used in over 230 million vehicles.

Mobility as a service

Mobility as a service (MaaS) is a transport concept combining journey planning, booking, and payment for multiple travel modes, from buses to shared bikes, in one app.

Mobvoi (出门问问)

Mobvoi (出门问问) is a Chinese AI company founded in 2012 by Li Zhifei, known for TicWatch smartwatches, the 魔音工坊 AIGC tools, and its 2024 Hong Kong listing.

Mocean Energy

Mocean Energy is a Scottish wave energy company founded in Edinburgh in 2015, whose Blue X prototype was tested at EMEC in Orkney and powered subsea equipment in the North Sea.

Mocha (JavaScript framework)

Mocha is a JavaScript test framework for Node.js and the browser, created by TJ Holowaychuk in 2011. Unlike all-in-one tools such as Jest, it provides the runner while developers pick their own assertion and mocking libraries.

Mochovce Nuclear Power Plant

The Mochovce Nuclear Power Plant (Slovak: Atómová elektráreň Mochovce, EMO) is a nuclear power station near Levice in western Slovakia, operating two reactors since 1998 and 2000.

Mock (Fedora tool)

Mock is a chroot build environment manager for building RPM packages, developed for the Fedora Project; it builds source RPMs in a minimal chroot and is used by Koji and Copr.

Mockup

A mockup, also written mock-up, is a scale or full-size model of a design built for study, testing, demonstration, or training, used in construction, aerospace, industrial design, and software.

MoCo (machine learning)

MoCo (Momentum Contrast) is a contrastive self-supervised learning framework for visual representations, introduced by Kaiming He and colleagues at CVPR 2020, using a momentum-updated encoder and a queue of keys.

MOD (file format)

MOD is a tracker music file format created in 1987 with Ultimate SoundTracker on the Commodore Amiga, combining audio samples and pattern data in one file.

MOD St Athan

MOD St Athan, formerly RAF St Athan, is a Ministry of Defence station in the Vale of Glamorgan, Wales, opened in 1938 as the RAF's main technical training base.

Modal (company)

Modal, formally Modal Labs, is a New York cloud computing company founded in 2021 by Erik Bernhardsson that offers a serverless platform for AI workloads on CPUs and GPUs.

Modal (textile)

Modal is a regenerated cellulosic fiber made from dissolving wood pulp by a modified viscose process and engineered for a high wet modulus, giving fabrics unusual softness and wash durability.

Modal coupling

Modal coupling is the interaction between the vibration modes of a mechanical system, where one mode's motion contributes forces on another, making frequency and damping depend on amplitude in nonlinear systems.

Modal Labs

Modal Labs is a New York City AI infrastructure startup founded in 2021 by Erik Bernhardsson that sells a serverless cloud platform for AI workloads like GPU inference.

Modal testing

Modal testing is an experimental method in structural dynamics that measures a structure's excitation forces and vibration responses together to extract its natural frequencies, damping ratios, and mode shapes.

Modbus

Modbus is an application-layer messaging protocol for exchanging process data between industrial devices such as PLCs and sensors, developed by Modicon in 1979 and now a de facto standard used by hundreds of vendors.

Modcomp

Modcomp, formally Modular Computer Systems, Inc., was an American minicomputer manufacturer founded in 1970 in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, whose machines ran launch-critical Space Shuttle functions at NASA.

Mode Analytics

Mode Analytics is a code-first business intelligence platform combining a SQL editor, Python/R notebooks, and dashboards, founded in 2013 in San Francisco by Derek Steer, Benn Stancil, and Josh Ferguson and acquired by ThoughtSpot for $200 million in 2023.

Mode filter

The mode filter is a nonlinear image-processing filter that replaces each pixel with the most frequently occurring value among its neighbors, used for denoising and smoothing.

Mode filtering (image processing)

Mode filtering is an image processing filter that replaces each pixel with the most frequent value in its neighborhood, used for noise removal and cleaning classified maps.

Mode of transport

A mode of transport is a specific method used to move passengers or goods, each relying on distinct infrastructure, vehicles, operators, and operations, falling into land, water, and air types.