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Baxter robot
  • Robotics

A modern industrial robot built by Rethink Robotics, specifically to interact safely with humans.

Bitcoin
  • Blockchain

World’s first decentralized cryptocurrency that can be exchanged between two parties without involving any intermediaries like banks or financial institutions.

Blank lookup
  • Salesforce

A lookup search when you click the lookup icon without entering a search term.

Block Ciphers
  • Blockchain

An encryption algorithm that encrypts data in blocks using a deterministic algorithm and a symmetric key. It takes a fixed size of the input and produces a cipher text of the same size.

Block Height
  • Blockchain

Block Height refers to a specific location in the Blockchain measured by the number of blocks preceding it in the network.

Block Rewards
  • Blockchain

Units of cryptocurrency or incentives earned by a miner or staker for each successful validation that discovers or proposes new blocks.

Blockchain
  • Blockchain

A decentralized, shared, and immutable ledger for storing information electronically in digital format. The information is collected and recorded in groups known as blocks. Each block has a storage capacity and when the storage is full, it's linked to a previously filled block, thus forming a chain of blocks or as it's called - Blockchain. This technology makes it almost impossible for anyone to tamper with the data.

 

Blockchain 1.0
  • Blockchain

The first generation of blockchain technology is focused on performing simple token transactions and storing the data across several computers. Blockchain 1.0 became the fundamental technology of blockchain and it showed that a market existed for these technologies.

Blockchain 2.0
  • Blockchain

The generation of blockchain technology-enabled smart contracts and generalized processing on the chain. The concept of Ethereum was introduced

Blockchain 3.0
  • Blockchain

The next blockchain development stage where the aim is to resolve existing issues in the blockchain industry to facilitate mainstream adoption.

Boids
  • Robotics

An artificial life simulation originally developed by Craig Reynolds to replicate the behavior of flocks of birds.

Brain-computer interface
  • Robotics

A control interface that recognises user intent by measuring brain activity and translating it into executable commands usually performed by a computer.

Braitenberg vehicles
  • Robotics

Simple mobile machines developed by Italian-Austrian cyberneticist Valentino Braitenberg, that use basic sensory-motor connections to produce seemingly cognitive behaviors.

Business Account
  • Salesforce

A company or organization that you want to track.

Business Continuity Management System (BCMS)
  • ECRS

A management system that brings together interrelated methods, procedures, and rules to ensure that critical business processes continue even in the event of damage or breakdown and also continuously develop and improve them.