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Facebook–Cambridge Analytica data scandal
The Facebook–Cambridge Analytica data scandal, also called the Cambridge Analytica scandal, was the 2018 revelation that a personality-quiz app harvested profile data on up to 87 million Facebook users.
FaceTime
FaceTime, also available as Facetime for Mac, is Apple's video- and audio-calling service, introduced with the iPhone 4 in 2010 for Apple devices, with browser access on Android and Windows.
Facetune
Facetune is a freemium photo and video editing app by Lightricks for retouching selfies and portraits, released in 2013 and Apple's most popular paid app of 2017.
facial age estimation
Facial age estimation is the inference of a person's age or age range from a face photograph using computer vision models; the best systems average about 2.4 years of error, with the 16-to-18 boundary hardest.
Facial expression recognition
Facial expression recognition is a computer vision task that classifies emotional expressions from images or video of faces, contested scientifically and restricted by the EU AI Act.
Facial landmark detection
Facial landmark detection is a computer vision method that automatically locates predefined points on a human face in an image, such as eye corners, nose tip, and mouth edges.
Facial recognition system
A facial recognition system, also known as face recognition, is a biometric technology that identifies or verifies people by automated comparison of facial features extracted from images.
Facilities Planning (book)
Facilities Planning is a Wiley textbook by James Tompkins, John White, Yavuz Bozer, and J. M. A. Tanchoco on planning and designing industrial facilities, first published in 1984.
Fact constellation
Fact constellation (galaxy schema) is a dimensional data-warehouse design with multiple fact tables, such as sales and shipping, connected only through shared, conformed dimension tables enabling multi-fact analysis.
Fact table
Fact table: the central table of a Kimball star schema, storing numeric measures of business events keyed by dimension foreign keys. Types: transaction, periodic snapshot, accumulating snapshot; measures additive, semi-additive, or non-additive.
Factor Bikes
Factor Bikes is a bicycle manufacturer based in Taichung, Taiwan, that makes its own UCI-legal carbon frames for road, gravel, track, and time trial racing.
Factor graph optimization
Factor graph optimization is a probabilistic inference method that estimates unknown variables by minimizing a cost over a factor graph, dominant in robotics and SLAM.
Factor graphs
A factor graph is a bipartite probabilistic graphical model whose variable nodes and factor nodes define a global function, serving as the standard back end for robot SLAM.
Factor of safety
The factor of safety, also called the safety factor, is the dimensionless ratio by which a structure's capacity exceeds the load applied to it in engineering design.
Factory
A factory, also called a production plant or manufactory, is a building or complex where goods are manufactured or processed with power-driven machinery and organized labor, a system that arose during the Industrial Revolution.
Factory method pattern
The factory method pattern, or factory design pattern, is a creational design pattern in which a superclass declares an object-creating method that subclasses override to pick the concrete class.
Factory reset
A factory reset is a procedure returning a device to the software state it was in when it left the manufacturer, erasing user data and settings and removing user-installed applications.
FACTS Grounding
FACTS Grounding is a benchmark and online leaderboard built by Google DeepMind and Google Research, announced in November 2024, that tests whether LLM answers stay fully grounded in a supplied document.
FActScore
FActScore (Factual precision in Atomicity Score) is an evaluation metric, introduced in 2023, that measures factual precision of long-form language model output by checking atomic facts against English Wikipedia.
FactSet Research Systems
FactSet Research Systems, trading as FactSet, is an American financial data and analytics company founded in 1978 and headquartered in Norwalk, Connecticut, serving the investment community.
FADEC
A FADEC (full authority digital engine control) is a digital computer controlling an aircraft engine's entire operation from startup to shutdown, with no manual override or mechanical control mode.
Fadhili cogeneration power plant
The Fadhili cogeneration power plant is a 1,507 MW gas-fired combined cycle plant in Saudi Arabia's Eastern Province that supplies power and steam to the Fadhili Gas Plant.
Fadhili Gas Plant
The Fadhili Gas Plant is a Saudi Aramco natural gas processing plant near Jubail, Saudi Arabia, which began operating in 2019 with a capacity of 2.5 billion cubic feet per day.
Fagor
Fagor is a group of Basque worker cooperatives in Spain's Mondragon Corporation, based in Mondragón, best known for appliance maker Fagor Electrodomésticos, which closed in 2013; other Fagor cooperatives continue operating.
Fagus Factory
The Fagus Factory (German: Fagus-Werk) is a ten-building shoe-last factory in Alfeld, Germany, designed by Walter Gropius from around 1910 and still in operation, a landmark of modern architecture.
Fahud Oil and Gas Field
Fahud Oil and Gas Field (فهود) is a large onshore oil field in northern Oman, operated by Petroleum Development Oman, whose 1967 startup began Oman's commercial oil production.
Fahud-Sohar Gas Pipeline
The Fahud-Sohar Gas Pipeline is a roughly 300 km, 32-inch natural gas pipeline in Oman, owned by Oman Gas Company, carrying gas from Fahud to the Sohar industrial zone.
FAI Gold Air Medal
The FAI Gold Air Medal is one of the two highest awards of the Fédération Aéronautique Internationale, established in 1924 and first awarded in 1925 for great contributions to aeronautics.
FAI record classes and certification
The FAI record classes and certification system organizes world and continental aviation records into 17 lettered aircraft classes, from free balloons to unmanned aerial vehicles, with claims ratified through national federations.
FAI record classes for human-powered flight
FAI record classes for human-powered flight are the Class I categories of the FAI Sporting Code, recognizing distance, duration, and speed records for airplanes, rotorcraft, and ornithopters.