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Farfisa

Farfisa, or Farsifa, is an Italian brand founded in 1946 to make accordions, best known for the transistor combo organs it produced in the 1960s and 1970s.

Fargo–Moorhead flood diversion project

The Fargo–Moorhead flood diversion project, officially the FM Area Diversion, is a flood-control project that will divert Red River floodwater around Fargo, North Dakota and Moorhead, Minnesota.

Farha South Oil Field

Farha South Oil Field is an onshore oil field in eastern central Oman, discovered in 2009 and the largest producing field of the Blocks 3 & 4 concession, operated by CC Energy Development.

Farhad Khosravi

Farhad (Fred) Khosravi is an Iranian-American mechanical engineer and Silicon Valley medical-device entrepreneur, co-founder and CEO of Imperative Care, elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 2024.

Farhad Massoudi (فرهاد مسعودی)

Farhad Massoudi (فرهاد مسعودی) is an Iranian-American entrepreneur who founded the free ad-supported streaming service Tubi in 2014 and sold it to Fox Corporation in 2020 for about $440 million.

Farigh Oil and Gas Field

Farigh Oil and Gas Field (فارغ), also spelled Faregh, is the name of two producing onshore hydrocarbon fields in Libya's Sirte Basin, one operated by Waha Oil Company and one by Harouge Oil Operations.

Farizon SV (远程)

The Farizon SV (远程), sold as the SuperVan in China, is a large battery-electric panel van from Farizon Auto, Geely's commercial vehicle brand, launched in 2024.

Farmall H

The Farmall H, or International H, is a row-crop tractor built by International Harvester at Rock Island, Illinois, from 1939 to 1953; 391,227 were built.

Farmall M

The Farmall M was a large row-crop tractor built by International Harvester in Rock Island, Illinois, from 1939 to 1954, the largest model of its Letter series.

FarmBot

FarmBot is an open-source CNC gantry robot that seeds, waters, and weeds a raised garden bed under the control of a web application, conceived by Rory Aronson in 2011.

FarmDroid

FarmDroid is a Danish agricultural robotics company in Vejen, founded in 2018 by Jens and Kristian Warming, that builds solar-powered robots for seeding and weeding.

FarmWise

FarmWise was a California agricultural robotics company founded in 2016 by Sebastien Boyer and Thomas Palomares that built AI-guided mechanical weeders, first the self-propelled Titan and later the tractor-pulled Vulcan.

Farnborough Airport

Farnborough Airport, formerly RAF Farnborough, is the United Kingdom's only dedicated business aviation airport, in Farnborough, Hampshire about 40 miles southwest of London, on the site of the UK's first powered flight in 1908.

Farnborough International Airshow

The Farnborough International Airshow is a biennial aerospace and defense trade exhibition and flying display at Farnborough Airport in Hampshire, England, alternating with the Paris Air Show.

Farnsworth House

The Farnsworth House is a glass and steel house in Plano, Illinois, designed by Mies van der Rohe for Dr. Edith Farnsworth and built from 1949 to 1951.

Farshid Guilak

Farshid Guilak is an American biomedical engineer and mechanobiology researcher at Washington University in St. Louis who studies osteoarthritis and develops stem-cell-based regenerative therapies for damaged joints.

Fascine

A fascine is a long bundle of brushwood used in military engineering to fill ditches and cross soft ground, famously carried by tanks at Cambrai in 1917.

Fashion-MNIST

Fashion-MNIST is a machine learning dataset of 70,000 grayscale 28×28 product images from Zalando across 10 clothing categories, released in 2017 as a direct drop-in replacement for MNIST.

Fast & Furious: Hollywood Drift

Fast & Furious: Hollywood Drift is a steel roller coaster at Universal Studios Hollywood in California, opened in 2026, with cars that rotate 360 degrees to simulate drifting at up to 72 mph.

Fast attack craft

A fast attack craft (FAC) is a small warship, generally under 500 tons, armed with guns, torpedoes, or antiship missiles and used for coastal attack and sea denial.

Fast battleship

A fast battleship is a warship combining battleship armament and protection with speed well above contemporary battleships, beginning with the British Queen Elizabeth class in 1915.

FAST corner detection

FAST (Features from Accelerated Segment Test) is a fast corner detector for digital images, introduced by Edward Rosten and Tom Drummond in 2005 for high-performance tracking.

Fast DDS

Fast DDS, formerly Fast RTPS, is an open-source C++ data distribution middleware developed by Spain's eProsima and best known as the default middleware of ROS 2.

Fast Ethernet

Fast Ethernet is the family of IEEE 802.3 standards that carries Ethernet frames at 100 megabits per second, ten times the speed of the original Ethernet.

Fast Flux Test Facility

The Fast Flux Test Facility was a 400-megawatt sodium-cooled fast neutron research reactor at the Hanford Site in Washington, which operated from 1982 to 1992.

Fast gradient sign method

The fast gradient sign method (FGSM) is a one-step white-box adversarial attack that perturbs inputs to increase a neural network's loss, introduced by Goodfellow, Shlens, and Szegedy in 2014.

Fast Load Control

Fast Load Control is a Massachusetts corporation in Providence, Rhode Island, holding inventor Robert H. Park's fast-valving patents, filed between 1972 and 1977, for turbine stability.

Fast pyrolysis

Fast pyrolysis is the rapid thermal decomposition of biomass without oxygen at roughly 500 °C, yielding about 75% bio-oil, a liquid fuel produced at commercial scale.

Fast Radius

Fast Radius was a Chicago cloud manufacturing company using microfactories and 3D printing to make parts on demand; it went public in 2022 and filed for bankruptcy that November.

Fast wavelet transform

The fast wavelet transform (FWT), also known as Mallat's algorithm, is a linear-time algorithm that computes the discrete wavelet transform by filtering and downsampling a signal.