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Friend (product)
Friend, also known as Friend AI, is an always-listening AI companion pendant created by Avi Schiffmann, announced in July 2024 and positioned as a friend rather than a productivity assistant.
Friendly jamming
Friendly jamming is a physical-layer security technique in which a legitimate network node transmits deliberate interference, usually artificial noise, to stop eavesdroppers decoding confidential wireless traffic.
Friends of Amateur Rocketry
Friends of Amateur Rocketry (FAR) is an American 501(c)(3) nonprofit, formed in 2003, operating a launch and static-test site in the Mojave Desert, California, for amateur rockets of all sizes.
Friendship Bridge
The Friendship Bridge, also called the Danube Bridge, is a combined road and railway bridge across the Danube between Ruse, Bulgaria, and Giurgiu, Romania, opened in 1954.
Friendster
Friendster, founded in 2002 by Canadian engineer Jonathan Abrams, was a pioneering social networking service that introduced tens of millions of users to online profiles before MySpace and Facebook overtook it.
Frigate
A frigate is a warship: in the age of sail a fast, lightly built cruiser, and since the 20th century a mid-sized escort for anti-submarine, surface, and air warfare.
Frigg UK Gas Pipeline
The Frigg UK Gas Pipeline is a 361-kilometer subsea gas pipeline from the Frigg field in the North Sea to St Fergus, Scotland, in service since 1977.
Frigidaire
Frigidaire, founded in 1916 as the Guardian Refrigerator Company, is an American appliance brand owned by Electrolux, known for the first home freezer and room air conditioner.
Frimmersdorf power station
Frimmersdorf power station (Kraftwerk Frimmersdorf) was a lignite-fired power station in Grevenbroich, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany, for a time the largest power plant in the world.
Frisbee
Frisbee, also known as a flying disc, is a trademarked plastic disc first sold by Wham-O in 1957, the basis for sports including Ultimate and disc golf.
Fritz Ingerslev
Fritz Ingerslev (1912–1994) was a Danish civil engineer and acoustics expert, known as Denmark's 'noise-professor', who led the Acoustics Laboratory and chaired international noise control bodies.
Fritz Pfleumer
Fritz Pfleumer (1881–1945) was an Austrian engineer who invented magnetic recording tape, patented in Germany in 1928; AEG acquired his rights in 1932 and developed the Magnetophon.
Fritz Rothe
Fritz Rothe was a German industrial chemist who joined Adolph Frank and Nikodem Caro in 1897 and in 1898 developed the calcium carbide route to calcium cyanamide fertilizer.
Fritz Todt
Fritz Todt was a German civil engineer and senior Nazi official who directed autobahn construction, founded Organisation Todt, and was Reich armaments minister from 1940 until his death in 1942.
Fritz X
Fritz X, also designated Ruhrstahl X-1, was a German radio-controlled armor-piercing glide bomb of World War II and the first precision-guided weapon sunk a warship.
Frogmore Cottage
Frogmore Cottage is a Grade II-listed house in the Home Park of Windsor Castle, built in 1801 for Queen Charlotte and known since 2018 as Prince Harry and Meghan's UK home.
Frogmore House
Frogmore House is a Grade I listed 17th-century country house in Windsor Home Park, Berkshire, near Windsor Castle, a royal retreat since 1792 under Queen Charlotte.
Fronius TPS/i
Fronius TPS/i is a family of digitally controlled MIG/MAG welding power sources by the Austrian company Fronius, introduced in 2012 as successor to the TPS platform.
Front-end engineering design
Front-end engineering design (FEED) is the project stage that turns a selected concept into a defined technical basis for cost estimates, approval, and contracting before construction.
Front-end web development
Front-end web development is the practice of building the parts of a website or web application that run in the user's browser, using the client-side languages HTML, CSS, and JavaScript.
Front-engine, four-wheel-drive layout
The front-engine, four-wheel-drive layout is an automotive drivetrain arrangement with a front-mounted engine that can send torque to all four wheels, common on trucks and SUVs.
Front-of-the-meter
Front-of-the-meter (FTM) is an energy asset, most often a battery storage system, connected on the utility side of the customer's meter so it sells into wholesale markets rather than serving one customer.
Front-wheel drive
Front-wheel drive (FWD), also called the FF layout, is a drivetrain layout where the engine powers the front wheels, which both propel and steer the car.
Frontera (supercomputer)
Frontera is a leadership-class supercomputer at the Texas Advanced Computing Center at the University of Texas at Austin, launched in 2019 as the world's fastest university system.
Frontera Energy
Frontera Energy is a Canadian energy infrastructure company in Colombia, holding stakes in the ODL crude pipeline and the Puerto Bahía port terminal in Cartagena.
Frontier (supercomputer)
Frontier, also known as OLCF-5, is an HPE Cray EX supercomputer at Oak Ridge National Laboratory that in June 2022 became the first system to exceed one exaflop.
Frontier AI employee letter urging paced development
The "Pacing the Frontier" letter is an open letter by frontier AI company employees, published July 28, 2026, asking the US government to support pacing AI development.
Frontier AI Risk Management Framework
The Frontier AI Risk Management Framework is a voluntary safety protocol set for general-purpose AI developers, issued by Shanghai AI Laboratory and Concordia AI in July 2025.
Frontier Airlines
Frontier Airlines is an American ultra low-cost carrier headquartered in Denver, Colorado. Founded in 1994, it is the largest such carrier in the United States.
Frontier Communications
Frontier Communications, known until 2008 as Citizens Communications, is an American fiber and copper broadband provider that Verizon acquired for $20 billion, closing in January 2026.