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Fabbrica d'Armi Sportiva Bernardelli
Fabbrica d'Armi Sportiva Bernardelli was an Italian firearms manufacturer of Gardone Val Trompia, active from 1865 to 1997 and known for the Model 60 pistol.
Faber-Castell
Faber-Castell, historically A.W. Faber, is a German manufacturer of writing, drawing, and creative-design instruments, founded in 1761 by the cabinet-maker Caspar Faber in Stein near Nuremberg and still family-owned.
Fabien Sorin
Fabien Sorin is a materials scientist and associate professor at EPFL, where he heads the Laboratory of Photonic Materials and Fibre Devices, known for multifunctional fibers.
Fabless manufacturing
Fabless manufacturing, also called a fabless semiconductor company, is a model in which firms design chips while foundries fabricate them. It underlies Qualcomm, NVIDIA, and AMD.
Fabric (deployment tool)
Fabric is an open-source Python library and command-line tool for executing shell commands on remote hosts over SSH, used mainly for application deployment and systems administration.
Fabric softener
Fabric softener, also called fabric conditioner, is a laundry rinse additive that softens fabric, reduces static cling, and adds fragrance; it does not clean clothes.
Fabricaciones Militares
Fabricaciones Militares, founded in 1941 as the Dirección General de Fabricaciones Militares (DGFM), is an Argentine state-owned defense company producing munitions, small arms, propellants, and explosives from four factories.
Fabrication of immersed tube tunnel elements
Fabrication of immersed tube tunnel elements is the prefabrication of complete tunnel sections before immersion: steel shells built like ships, concrete boxes cast in basins near the site.
Fabrice Bellard
Fabrice Bellard (born 1973) is a French programmer who created FFmpeg, QEMU, the Tiny C Compiler, and QuickJS, and in 2009 set a world record for computing digits of π on a desktop computer.
FABRIK
FABRIK (Forward And Backward Reaching Inverse Kinematics) is a fast, iterative inverse kinematics solver published by Andreas Aristidou and Joan Lasenby in 2011, used in character animation and real-time games.
Fabrinet
Fabrinet is a contract manufacturer specializing in optical communication components, industrial lasers, automotive parts, and medical devices, founded in Thailand in 2000 by Seagate co-founder Tom Mitchell.
FABTECH
FABTECH is an annual trade show and conference for metal forming, fabricating, welding, and finishing, first held in 1981 in Cleveland and described as North America's largest such event.
Façade
A façade is the main exterior face of a building, especially the front, serving both as an architectural composition and as an engineered outer skin that sheds rain and resists wind.
Façade (video game)
Façade is a free 2005 interactive drama for Windows by Michael Mateas and Andrew Stern, in which the player types dialogue during a couple's marriage collapse.
Facade pattern
The Facade pattern is a structural design pattern that provides a unified, higher-level interface to a subsystem, simplifying its use while leaving underlying classes accessible.
Face anti-spoofing
Face anti-spoofing, also called face presentation attack detection, is the computer vision task of deciding whether a camera sees a live person or an artifact like a photo, replayed video, or 3D mask.
Face detection
Face detection is a computer vision method that locates human faces in images or video, outputting a bounding box and confidence score for each face found.
Face gear
A face gear is a ring-shaped gear with teeth on its face, meshing with an ordinary cylindrical pinion to transmit rotation between intersecting shafts, typically at 90 degrees.
Face gear drive
A face gear drive is a gear mechanism in which a spur or helical pinion meshes with a toothed face gear, transmitting power between intersecting shafts, usually at 90 degrees.
Face ID
Face ID is Apple's facial-recognition authentication system for the iPhone and iPad Pro, introduced with the iPhone X in 2017 to replace the fingerprint-based Touch ID.
Face liveness detection
Face liveness detection, also called face anti-spoofing, is a computer vision method that decides whether a face shown to a camera is a live person or a spoof.
Face milling
Face milling is a machining operation in which a rotating cutter removes material from a surface perpendicular to its axis, producing broad flat faces and datum surfaces.
Face support and ground conditioning in shield tunnelling
Face support and ground conditioning keep the soil at a shield tunnel's face stable, using pressurized conditioned soil in EPB shields or bentonite slurry in slurry shields.
FaceApp
FaceApp is a mobile photo-editing application developed by Russia-based Wireless Lab in 2017, known for its neural-network aging filters and its viral #FaceAppChallenge in July 2019.
Facebook, originally Thefacebook and found at Facebook.com, is a social networking service operated by Meta Platforms, generating $200.97 billion in 2025 advertising-driven revenue and serving about 3 billion users.
Facebook F8
Facebook F8 was the annual developer conference of Facebook and its successor Meta Platforms, first held in 2007 to launch Facebook Platform and paused by Meta in 2022.
Facebook malware
Facebook malware is malicious software that steals Facebook login credentials, cookies, and access tokens from users' devices, then uses compromised accounts to run unauthorized ads, spread spam, and scam contacts.
Facebook Platform
Facebook Platform is the set of APIs, tools, and policies that let outside developers build software integrating with Facebook, announced by Mark Zuckerberg at the f8 event in 2007.
Facebook Watch
Facebook Watch was a video-on-demand service within Facebook, announced in 2017 as a platform for live and recorded shows and rebranded as the Video tab in July 2023.
Facebook Zero
Facebook Zero was a text-only, zero-rated mobile version of Facebook, launched in May 2010 and offered free of data charges by 50 operators in 45 countries.