- Light-emitting diode - Wikipedia
Electroluminescence, from a solid state diode, was discovered, in 1906, by Henry Joseph Round, of Marconi Labs, and published, in February 1907, in Electrical World; Round observing various carborundum (silicon carbide) crystals would emit yellow, light green, orange or blue light, when a voltage was passed between the poles [9] A silicon carbide LED was created by Soviet inventor Oleg Losev
- Snopes - Wikipedia
Snopes ( ˈsnoʊps ), formerly known as the Urban Legends Reference Pages, is a fact-checking website [4] It has been described as a "well-regarded reference for sorting out myths and rumors" on the Internet [5][6] The site has also been seen as a source for both validating and debunking urban legends and similar stories in American popular culture [7]
- ebook - Wikipedia
Reading an e-book on a third-generation KindleAn ebook (short for electronic book), also spelled as e-book or eBook, is a book publication made available in electronic form, consisting of text, images, or both, readable on the flat-panel display of computers or other electronic devices [1] Although sometimes defined as "an electronic version of a printed book", [2] some e-books exist without
- Wikipedia:Citing sources - Wikipedia
Check for web archives: Many web archiving services exist (for a full list, see: Wikipedia:List of web archives on Wikipedia); link to their archive of the URL's content, if available
- Google Books - Wikipedia
Google Books (previously known as Google Book Search, Google Print, and by its code-name Project Ocean) [1] is a service from Google that searches the full text of books and magazines that Google has scanned, converted to text using optical character recognition (OCR), and stored in its digital database [2] Books are provided either by publishers and authors through the Google Books Partner
- List of academic databases and search engines - Wikipedia
List of academic databases and search engines This page contains a representative list of major databases and search engines useful in an academic setting for finding and accessing articles in academic journals, institutional repositories, archives, or other collections of scientific and other articles
- Redirect examination - Wikipedia
Redirect examination, in the United States, is the questioning of a witness who has already provided testimony under oath in response to direct examination as well as cross examination by the opponent
- Fake news - Wikipedia
Fake news is false or misleading information presented as news [10][16] The term as it developed in 2017 is a neologism (a new or re-purposed expression that is entering the language, driven by culture or technology changes) [17] Fake news is now used by many people as a catch-all, referring to any lies and misrepresentations, from a news distributor or not; further, a few people use the
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