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Kensho (company)

Kensho is an American AI company founded in 2013 in Cambridge, Massachusetts, acquired by S&P Global in 2018 to serve as its AI innovation hub.

Kensington Palace

Kensington Palace is a royal palace in Kensington Gardens, London, rebuilt by Christopher Wren for William III and Mary II in 1689, now home to the Prince and Princess of Wales.

Kensington Security Slot

The Kensington Security Slot, also known as the K-Slot or K-Lock, is a small opening in laptops and electronics that accepts a cable lock to deter theft.

Kent Beck

Kent Beck, born 1961, is an American software engineer, author, and consultant known for rediscovering test-driven development, founding extreme programming, co-creating JUnit, and signing the Agile Manifesto.

Kent F. Hansen

Kent F. Hansen is an American nuclear engineer, professor of nuclear engineering at MIT, known for reactor kinetics methods and a system dynamics model of the Hanford waste cleanup.

Kentik Technologies, Inc.

Kentik Technologies, Inc. is a San Francisco-based network observability company that analyzes network telemetry for enterprises and service providers; founded in 2014, it was acquired by Infoblox in 2026.

Kentucky Power

Kentucky Power, formally Kentucky Power Company, is a regulated electric utility headquartered in Ashland, Kentucky, serving about 162,000 customers in 20 eastern Kentucky counties as an American Electric Power subsidiary.

Kentucky Transportation Cabinet

The Kentucky Transportation Cabinet, headquartered in Frankfort, is Kentucky's state agency for highways, bridges, driver licensing, and vehicle registration, employing more than 4,000 people across 12 Department of Highways districts.

Kentucky Utilities

Kentucky Utilities (KU) is an investor-owned utility headquartered in Lexington that operates in Kentucky and Virginia. It is a subsidiary of LG&E and KU, owned by PPL Corporation.

Kenwood Corporation

Kenwood Corporation (株式会社ケンウッド, Kabushiki-kaisha Ken'uddo) was a Japanese electronics manufacturer founded in 1946, known for home and car audio and amateur radio, and merged with JVC into JVCKENWOOD in 2011.

Kenworth

Kenworth is an American manufacturer of medium- and heavy-duty commercial trucks, founded in Seattle, Washington, in 1923 and owned by PACCAR Inc, which also builds Peterbilt and DAF trucks.

Kenworth T680

The Kenworth T680 is a Class 8 aerodynamic conventional tractor built by Kenworth, a PACCAR subsidiary, introduced in 2012 to replace the T660 and T700 in long-haul freight.

Kenworth W900

The Kenworth W900 is a long-hood Class 8 conventional truck produced by Kenworth since 1963, with over 280,000 sold; Kenworth announced in March 2025 that production ends in 2026.

Kenya Airways

Kenya Airways is the flag carrier of Kenya, founded in 1977 after East African Airways disbanded, privatized in 1996, and the sole African member of the SkyTeam alliance.

Kenya Civil Aviation Authority

The Kenya Civil Aviation Authority (KCAA) is the state corporation that regulates civil aviation in Kenya, providing air navigation services and training through the East African School of Aviation since 2002.

Kenya East-Jammat-Margaret Gas Field

The Kenya East-Jammat-Margaret Gas Field is an operating coal seam gas field in the Surat Basin of Queensland, Australia, combining three tenements supplying the Queensland Curtis LNG project.

Kenya National Highways Authority

The Kenya National Highways Authority is a Kenyan state corporation responsible for managing and maintaining national trunk roads, established under the Kenya Roads Act of 2007.

Kenya Power

Kenya Power, formally the Kenya Power and Lighting Company (KPLC), is Kenya's national electricity utility, incorporated in 1922, majority-owned by the government, and serving more than 10 million customers.

Kenya Railways

Kenya Railways is Kenya's railway system, operated by the state-owned Kenya Railways Corporation in Nairobi, running the Standard Gauge Railway between Mombasa and Nairobi, commuter rail, and freight services.

Kenyir Hydro Power Station

Kenyir Hydro Power Station, formally the Sultan Mahmud Power Station (Stesen Janakuasa Sultan Mahmud), is a 400 MW hydroelectric dam in Hulu Terengganu, Malaysia, completed in 1985.

Keolis

Keolis is a French public transport operator, 70% owned by the SNCF Group, that runs bus, tram, metro, and rail networks for public authorities in 14 countries.

Keon Jae Lee

Keon Jae Lee (이건재) is a South Korean materials scientist and Endowed Chair Professor at KAIST in Daejeon, known for flexible, self-powered electronics and battery-free deep brain stimulation.

Kepler (microarchitecture)

Kepler is an Nvidia GPU microarchitecture, the third-generation CUDA compute architecture succeeding Fermi, built on TSMC's 28-nanometer process and launched in 2012 with the GeForce GTX 680.

Kepler field

The Kepler field is a 115-square-degree patch of sky in Cygnus and Lyra that NASA's Kepler telescope monitored from 2009 to 2013 to find exoplanets.

Kepler K2

Kepler K2, also sold as the Forerunner K2 "Bumblebee", is a general-purpose industrial humanoid robot from Shanghai Kepler Robotics that debuted in 2024 and entered mass production in 2025.

Kepler space telescope

Kepler was a NASA space telescope launched in 2009 to find exoplanets by detecting dips in starlight; it found over 3,200 planets before retiring in 2018.

Keppel Merlimau cogeneration power station

Keppel Merlimau cogeneration power station, also known as Keppel Merlimau Cogen, is a 1,300 MW gas-fired power station on Jurong Island, Singapore, supplying about 14% of its electricity.

Kerala State Electricity Board

The Kerala State Electricity Board (KSEB) is the government-owned power utility of Kerala, India, established in 1957 and restructured as Kerala State Electricity Board Limited in 2014.

Kerala State Road Transport Corporation (കേരള സംസ്ഥാന റോഡ് ട്രാൻസ്പോർട്ട് കോർപ്പറേഷൻ)

Kerala State Road Transport Corporation, also known as Kerala RTC, is the state-owned corporation operating scheduled bus services across Kerala, India, with roots in a 1938 Travancore transport service.

Keras

Keras is an open-source deep learning API written in Python, created by François Chollet at Google and first released in 2015; it runs on JAX, TensorFlow, or PyTorch.