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Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center

The Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center (PSC) is a joint supercomputing center of Carnegie Mellon University and the University of Pittsburgh, established in 1986 as one of the original NSF-funded supercomputing centers.

Pituffik Space Base

Pituffik Space Base, formerly Thule Air Base, is the US Space Force's northernmost installation, in northwest Greenland 1,200 km above the Arctic Circle, operating AN/FPS-132 missile-warning radar, space surveillance, and satellite control under the 1951 US-Denmark defense agreement.

Pivot table

A pivot table is a spreadsheet feature that rearranges and summarizes a data table in many ways, invented by Pito Salas at Lotus in 1986.

Pivot-based translation

Pivot-based translation is a machine translation method that translates between languages through an intermediate pivot language, usually English, and remains a standard technique for low-resource language pairs that lack parallel training data.

Pivotal Software

Pivotal Software, also known as GoPivotal, was an American enterprise software company formed by EMC and VMware in 2013 and acquired by VMware in 2019 for about $2.7 billion.

Pix2Pix

Pix2Pix is a conditional generative adversarial network, presented by UC Berkeley researchers in 2016, that learns to translate images from one domain to another using paired examples.

Pix4D

Pix4D is a Swiss photogrammetry software company founded in 2011 as a spin-off from EPFL in Lausanne, which turns drone photographs into maps and 3D models.

PixArt

PixArt is an open-weight text-to-image model family built on a Diffusion Transformer rather than a UNet, first released in October 2023 and known for training at a fraction of the usual cost.

Pixel

A pixel, short for picture element, is a fundamental element of a digital image, also meaning a stored data value, a camera sensor sample, or an addressable display element.

Pixel 10

The Pixel 10 is a Google smartphone released in August 2025, the tenth-generation Pixel, with a triple rear camera, Tensor G5 chip, and Qi2 magnetic charging.

Pixel 10 Pro

The Pixel 10 Pro (Google Pixel 10 Pro) is a flagship Android smartphone by Google, released August 2025 with the Tensor G5 chip, Qi2 magnetic charging, and a $999 starting price.

Pixel 10 Pro Fold

The Pixel 10 Pro Fold is a book-style foldable smartphone announced by Google on August 20, 2025 and released in October 2025, with a gearless hinge and IP68 water resistance.

Pixel 10a

The Pixel 10a is Google's budget smartphone for 2026, sold at $500 with a 6.3-inch pOLED display, Tensor G4 processor, dual rear cameras carried over from the Pixel 9a.

Pixel 11

The Pixel 11, also known as the Google Pixel 11, is a smartphone by Google released in August 2026, powered by the Tensor G6 chip and starting at $899.

Pixel 11 Pro

The Pixel 11 Pro is a compact flagship Android smartphone from Google, announced August 2026 with the Tensor G6 chip, 6.3-inch screen, and a $1,100 starting price.

Pixel 11 Pro Fold

The Pixel 11 Pro Fold is a book-style foldable smartphone by Google, released in August 2026 as the foldable member of the Pixel 11 series.

Pixel 2

The Pixel 2 is an Android smartphone developed by Google, announced in October 2017 in 5-inch and 6-inch XL models, known for its highly rated camera.

Pixel 3

The Pixel 3 is an Android smartphone Google announced in October 2018 alongside the larger Pixel 3 XL, known for Night Sight and the Titan M chip.

Pixel 4

Pixel 4: Google's 2019 flagship Android phone (Pixel 4 and 4 XL) with Snapdragon 855, Soli radar Motion Sense, IR face unlock, dual rear cameras, 90Hz display, and October 2022 end of support.

Pixel 6

The Pixel 6 is a Google smartphone released in October 2021, the first built around Google's custom Tensor chip, shipped with Android 12 and started at $599.

Pixel 8a

The Pixel 8a is a mid-range Android smartphone developed by Google, announced in May 2024 and sold from $499 with the same Tensor G3 chip and AI features as the Pixel 8.

Pixel 9

The Pixel 9, a Google smartphone announced on August 13, 2024 and released on August 22, runs the Tensor G4 chip and starts at $799 in the United States.

Pixel 9 Pro Fold

Pixel 9 Pro Fold: Google's second book-style foldable, launched August 2024 at $1,799 with Tensor G4, 8-inch inner and 6.3-inch outer displays, IPX8 rating, and seven years of updates; distinct from the 2023 Pixel Fold.

Pixel 9a

The Pixel 9a is a mid-range Android smartphone by Google, released in April 2025 at $499 as the budget model of the Pixel 9 series.

Pixel density

Pixel density is the number of pixels per unit of physical length on a display or printed image, usually expressed as pixels per inch (ppi) and often loosely called DPI.

Pixel Watch 3

The Pixel Watch 3 is a Google smartwatch announced in August 2024 and released that September, the first Pixel Watch offered in two sizes, 41 mm and 45 mm.

Pixel Watch 4

The Pixel Watch 4 is a Wear OS smartwatch developed by Google, announced in August 2025 and released that October as the fourth generation of the Pixel Watch line.

Pixel Watch 5

The Google Pixel Watch 5 is a Wear OS smartwatch developed by Google, announced in August 2026 and released that October as the fifth Pixel Watch.

Pixhawk

Pixhawk is an independent open-hardware project that publishes reference designs and standards for drone autopilot hardware, started around 2008 by Lorenz Meier as a student project at ETH Zurich.

Pixis (company)

Pixis, formerly Pyxis One, is a California-based technology company founded around 2018 that sells codeless AI infrastructure for marketing optimization and has raised $209 million in venture funding.