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Generic top-level domain

A generic top-level domain (gTLD), also known as a generic TLD, is a top-level domain like .com or .org that does not represent a country or territory.

Generics in Java

Generics in Java are a language facility, introduced in Java 5, for declaring classes and methods with type parameters, letting one declaration like List work with many element types.

Genesee power station

The Genesee power station is a roughly 1.8 GW natural gas-fired power station near Warburg, Alberta, owned by Capital Power and supplying about 10% of Alberta's electricity.

Genesis (generative physics simulation platform)

Genesis, also known as Genesis World, is an open-source GPU-parallel multi-physics engine and robotics simulation platform begun in December 2024 and now developed with support from Genesis AI.

Genesis G70

The Genesis G70 is a compact executive sports sedan from Genesis, the luxury division of Hyundai Motor Company, first shown in 2017 and sold from that September.

Genesis G80 (제네시스 G80)

The Genesis G80 (제네시스 G80) is a midsize luxury sedan from Genesis, Hyundai's premium brand, sold since 2016 and competing with the BMW 5 Series and Mercedes-Benz E-Class.

Genesis G90

The Genesis G90, sold in Korea as the EQ900 until 2018, is a full-size luxury sedan from Hyundai's Genesis brand, launched in December 2015 as its flagship.

Genesis GV80

The Genesis GV80 is a midsize luxury SUV built by Genesis, the luxury division of Hyundai Motor, and the first SUV the brand offered, launched in 2020.

Genesis GV90

The Genesis GV90 is a full-size all-electric luxury SUV produced by Genesis, the luxury brand of Hyundai Motor Group, unveiled in August 2026 as the brand's first full-size flagship SUV.

Genesis Motor

Genesis Motor is the luxury vehicle brand of Hyundai Motor Group, launched in 2015, selling G-series sedans, SUVs, and electric vehicles assembled in Ulsan, South Korea.

Genesis Systems Group

Genesis Systems Group is an American robotic systems integrator founded in 1983 and headquartered in Davenport, Iowa, acquired by IPG Photonics in 2018 for $115 million.

Genesis Therapeutics

Genesis Therapeutics, renamed Genesis Molecular AI in 2025, is an American biotechnology company founded in 2019 as a Stanford spinout that applies AI and physics-based simulation to small-molecule drug discovery.

Genesys (company)

Genesys, also known as Genesys Telecommunications Laboratories, is a privately held American software company founded in San Francisco in 1990, headquartered in Menlo Park, California, selling cloud-based contact center software.

Genetic algorithm

A genetic algorithm is a population-based search and optimization method that improves candidate solutions through selection, crossover, and mutation, first formulated by John Holland in 1975.

Genetic fuzzy systems

A genetic fuzzy system is a fuzzy rule-based system tuned or learned by a genetic algorithm, a 1990s hybrid giving fuzzy models learning capabilities of their own.

Genetic operator

A genetic operator is a procedure a genetic algorithm applies to a population of candidate solutions to produce the next generation, chiefly selection, crossover, and mutation.

Genetic programming

Genetic programming (GP) is an evolutionary computation technique that evolves populations of computer programs by selection, crossover, and mutation; it was popularized by John Koza in 1992.

Geneva Airport

Geneva Airport, also called Genève Aéroport or Cointrin, is the international airport of Geneva, Switzerland, located 4 km north of the city and opened in 1920.

Geneva Convention on Road Traffic

The Geneva Convention on Road Traffic, signed at Geneva on 19 September 1949, is a United Nations treaty setting uniform international road rules and mutual recognition of driving permits.

Geneva drive

The Geneva drive, also known as the Geneva mechanism or Geneva stop, is a gear mechanism converting continuous rotation into intermittent rotation, used in film projectors.

GenEval

GenEval is an automated benchmark for text-to-image models, proposed in October 2023, that checks whether generated images contain the objects, counts, colors, and positions named in a prompt.

Geneve (protocol)

Geneve (Generic Network Virtualization Encapsulation) is an IETF-standardized protocol, RFC 8926 of 2020, that tunnels Ethernet frames over UDP for data-center overlays, with extensible metadata options and use in Linux and Open vSwitch.

Genghis (robot)

Genghis was a six-legged walking robot built by Rodney Brooks at the MIT Artificial Intelligence Laboratory in the late 1980s, designed as a test bed for his subsumption architecture.

Genichi Taguchi

Genichi Taguchi (田口玄一, 1924–2012) was a Japanese engineer and statistician whose Taguchi Methods, including the quality loss function, improved Japanese manufacturing and were adopted by American companies like Ford and Xerox.

Genie (interactive world model)

Genie is a family of foundation world models by Google DeepMind that generate playable, action-controllable interactive environments from images, video, or text, first published in February 2024.

Genie 2

Genie 2 is a Google DeepMind foundation world model announced in December 2024 that generates action-controllable, playable 3D environments from a single image, for training embodied AI agents.

Genius Sports

Genius Sports is a British sports data and technology company supplying betting data, streaming, and integrity services to leagues and sportsbooks, listed on the NYSE as GENI.

Genkai Energy Park

Genkai Energy Park (玄海エネルギーパーク) is Kyushu Electric Power's free energy-education visitor facility, opened 2000 beside the Genkai Nuclear Power Station in Saga Prefecture, with a 13-meter reactor model, greenhouse, and playgrounds.

Genkai nuclear power plant

The Genkai nuclear power plant is a four-unit nuclear plant in Genkai, Saga Prefecture, Japan, owned and operated by Kyushu Electric Power Company; its first reactor began operating in 1975.

Genmo Mochi 1

Mochi 1 is a 10-billion-parameter text-to-video diffusion model released by Genmo in October 2024 under the Apache 2.0 license, generating 480p clips up to 5.4 seconds.