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KDE Plasma 5
KDE Plasma 5, also known as Plasma Workspaces, is the fifth generation of KDE's Plasma desktop environment for Linux and UNIX systems, released in July 2014 with the Breeze theme.
KDE Plasma 6
KDE Plasma 6 is the current major version of the KDE Plasma desktop environment for Linux, released in February 2024 with Qt 6 and Wayland as the default session.
KDVR
KDVR (Fox 31), virtual channel 31, RF 36, is a Fox-affiliated commercial TV station licensed to Denver, Colorado, transmitter on Lookout Mountain, 1000 kW ERP, licensee Tribune Broadcasting Company II LLC, operated by Nexstar alongside KWGN-TV.
Ke Cheng
Ke Cheng is a biomedical engineer and the Alan L. Kaganov Professor of Biomedical Engineering at Columbia University, known for inhalable extracellular vesicle therapies for lung cancer and heart repair.
Kearl Oil Sands Project
The Kearl Oil Sands Project is an open-pit oil sands mine north of Fort McMurray, Alberta, owned by Imperial Oil and ExxonMobil and producing since 2013.
Kebabangan Oil and Gas Field
Kebabangan is an offshore gas and oil field in the South China Sea, about 94 km northwest of Kota Kinabalu, Sabah, Malaysia, producing gas since 2014.
Keban hydroelectric plant
The Keban hydroelectric plant (Keban Barajı ve Hidroelektrik Santrali) is a 1,330 MW dam on the Euphrates River in Turkey, completed in 1974 and once the country's largest.
Kechang Xie (谢克昌)
Kechang Xie (谢克昌), born 1946 in Shanxi, is a Chinese coal chemical engineering expert, a Chinese Academy of Engineering academician elected to the US National Academy of Engineering in 2013.
Kechimovskoye Oil and Gas Field
The Kechimovskoye oil field is an oil field in the central West Siberian plain in Khanty-Mansi Autonomous Okrug, Russia, discovered in 1985, developed from 1995, and operated by LUKOIL.
Keck Planet Finder
The Keck Planet Finder (KPF) is a high-resolution spectrometer on the Keck I Telescope in Hawaii, built to find exoplanets and achieve first light in 2022.
Kecksburg UFO incident
The Kecksburg UFO incident, sometimes called "Pennsylvania's Roswell", was a reported 1965 crash of an unidentified object near Kecksburg, Pennsylvania, classified by the Air Force as a meteor.
Keda New Energy (科达新能源)
Keda New Energy (科达新能源) is a Chinese producer of artificial graphite anode material for lithium-ion batteries, founded in 2017 in Datian County, Fujian, and controlled by Shanghai-listed Keda Manufacturing.
Kedarnath Temple (केदारनाथ मंदिर)
Kedarnath Temple, also known as Kedarnath Dham, is a Hindu temple dedicated to Shiva at 3,581 meters in Uttarakhand, India, and one of the twelve Jyotirlingas.
Kedleston Hall
Kedleston Hall is a grade I listed neoclassical country house near Quarndon in Derbyshire, England, built from 1758 for Sir Nathaniel Curzon, with interiors by Robert Adam.
Kedro
Kedro is an open-source Python framework from QuantumBlack (open sourced June 2019, LF AI & Data since 2022) for reproducible, modular data pipelines built from nodes, pipelines, and a Data Catalog.
Kee Bird
Kee Bird was a US Army Air Forces B-29 bomber that force-landed on a frozen lake in Greenland in 1947 and was destroyed by fire during a 1995 recovery attempt.
Keel
A keel is the principal longitudinal structural member along a ship's bottom centerline, acting as the hull's backbone and, in sailing craft, carrying ballast and resisting sideways drift.
Keel block
A keel block is a heavy block on a shipyard slip or dry dock floor on which a ship's keel rests during building or repair.
Keel laying
Keel laying, also called laying down, is the formal recognition of the start of a ship's construction, historically the placement of the keel timber, the ship's backbone.
Keen (footwear)
Keen is an American footwear company founded in 2003 in Alameda, California, by Martin Keen and Rory Fuerst, known for hybrid outdoor shoes built around a protective rubber toe cap.
Keep
A keep, also known as a donjon or great tower, is the main stone tower of a medieval castle, built from the 11th century onward as the lord's residence and last refuge.
Keep Android Open
Keep Android Open is an advocacy campaign initiated by F-Droid opposing Google's developer verification mandate, which would require all Android app developers to register centrally with Google.
KeePass
KeePass, also known as KeePass Password Safe, is a free, open-source password manager created by Dominik Reichl and first released in 2003, storing passwords in one encrypted database file.
Keephills power station
Keephills power station is a natural gas-fired thermal power station in Parkland County, Alberta, about 70 kilometers west of Edmonton, owned by TransAlta. It burned coal until 2021.
Keepon
Keepon is a small yellow social robot designed from 2002 by Japanese researcher Hideki Kozima to study children's communication, used in autism therapy and famous for viral dancing videos.
Kees Schouhamer Immink
Kees Schouhamer Immink is a Dutch engineer and coding theorist, born in Rotterdam in 1946, best known for designing the signal codes of the compact disc, DVD, and Blu-ray Disc.
Keflavík International Airport
Keflavík International Airport (Keflavíkurflugvöllur) is Iceland's main international airport, 50 km from Reykjavík on the Reykjanes Peninsula. Built by the United States in 1943, it handles over 95 percent of passengers visiting Iceland.
KEGG
KEGG (Kyoto Encyclopedia of Genes and Genomes) is a bioinformatics database resource for interpreting genomes through manually drawn biological pathway maps, started in 1995 by Minoru Kanehisa at the University of Tokyo.
Kegworth air disaster
The Kegworth air disaster, also known as British Midland Flight 92, was a 1989 Boeing 737 crash near Kegworth, Leicestershire, killing 47 of 126 aboard.
Kegychivske Gas Field
Kegychivske Gas Field (Кегичівське родовище) is a gas condensate field in Kharkiv Oblast, Ukraine, discovered in 1953 and producing since 1965, hosting an underground gas storage facility since 1986.