A lithium-ion battery stores energy by moving lithium ions between electrodes and is the dominant traction battery technology in modern electric vehicles.
Live streaming is broadcasting video to an online audience in real time, letting creators interact with viewers and earn from subscriptions, tips…
An LLM (large language model) is a neural network trained on vast text corpora to predict the next token, which lets it…
Load average is a Unix and Linux metric showing the average number of tasks running or waiting over the last 1, 5…
A load balancer distributes incoming network connections or requests across a pool of servers to improve availability, capacity and response times.
A local citation is any online mention of a business name, address and phone number, which helps search engines verify it for…
The local pack is the map-based block of nearby business listings that search engines show for local-intent queries, a central target of…
Log aggregation collects logs from many servers and applications into one central system where they can be searched, correlated, retained and alerted…
Log recording is a video camera mode that encodes the image with a logarithmic curve to preserve maximum dynamic range for color…
Log rotation is the scheduled renaming, compression and deletion of server log files, keeping disk usage bounded while preserving recent logs for…
A logo in brand design is the distinctive graphic mark, wordmark or combination that identifies an organization and anchors its visual identity.
A logomark is the symbol part of a logo, a graphic brand mark without letters that identifies a brand on its own…
Logs in observability are timestamped records of discrete events emitted by applications and infrastructure, used to debug, audit and explain system behavior.
Long exposure in photography is a technique that uses slow shutter speeds to record motion as blur or trails while static elements…
A loop is a control structure in programming that repeats a block of code while a condition holds or once for each…
LoRA, or low-rank adaptation, fine-tunes a large AI model by training small low-rank weight matrices while the original weights stay frozen.
Loudness normalization adjusts playback gain so that audio programs reach a common perceived loudness target, measured in LUFS, instead of a common…
Low Power Mode is a system setting that cuts background activity and performance on a mobile device so the remaining battery charge…
LPDDR5 is a JEDEC low-power DRAM standard for phones, tablets and thin laptops, offering up to 6400 MT/s with aggressive power-saving features.
LQR, the linear-quadratic regulator, is an optimal state-feedback controller that balances state error against control effort using a quadratic cost.
lsof is the Linux monitoring command that lists open files per process, including regular files, directories, pipes, devices and network sockets.
LTE (Long Term Evolution) is the 4G mobile network standard from 3GPP that delivers all-IP broadband data over OFDMA radio and a…
LTS (long-term support) is a software release maintained with security and bug fixes for an extended, published period, typically several years.
LUFS is the unit of perceived loudness used in audio mastering and broadcast, measured with K-weighting and gating to match how listeners…
Luminance noise in photography is random pixel-to-pixel variation in brightness that appears as monochrome grain, most visible in shadows and at high…
A LUT, or lookup table, is a precomputed color transform used in video color grading to map input colors to new output…
LVM, the Linux Logical Volume Manager, pools physical disks into volume groups and carves them into resizable logical volumes for server storage.
LXC, Linux Containers, runs complete Linux system containers on a shared kernel using namespaces and cgroups instead of full hardware virtualization.
LXD is a Linux manager for system containers and virtual machines that runs full operating systems through one REST API and command-line…