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Austin is the capital of the U.S. state of Texas and the seat of Travis County, with portions extending into Hays and Williamson counties. It is the 11th-most populous city in the United States and the 4th-most populous city in Texas. It is also the fastest growing large city in the United States, the second most populous state capital after Phoenix, Arizona, and the southernmost state capital in the contiguous United States. As of the U.S. Census Bureau's August 1, 2018 estimate, Austin had a population of 967,629 up from 790,491 at the 2010 census. The city is the cultural and economic center of the Austin–Round Rock metropolitan statistical area, which had an estimated population of 2,056,405 as of July 1, 2016. Located in Central Texas within the greater Texas Hill Country, it is home to numerous lakes, rivers, and waterways, including Lady Bird Lake and Lake Travis on the Colorado River, Barton Springs, McKinney Falls, and Lake Walter E. Long.
In the 1830s, pioneers began to settle the area in central Austin along the Colorado River. In 1839, the site was chosen to replace Houston as the capital of the Republic of Texas and was incorporated under the name Waterloo. Shortly afterward, the name was changed to Austin in honor of Stephen F. Austin, the Father of Texas and the republic's first secretary of state. The city grew throughout the 19th century and became a center for government and education with the construction of the Texas State Capitol and the University of Texas at Austin. After a severe lull in economic growth from the Great Depression, Austin resumed its steady development, and by the 1990s it emerged as a center for technology and business. A number of Fortune 500 companies have headquarters or regional offices in Austin including, 3M, Amazon.com, Apple Inc., Cisco, eBay, General Motors, Google, IBM, Intel, Oracle Corporation, Paypal, Texas Instruments, and Whole Foods Market. Dell's worldwide headquarters is located in nearby Round Rock, a suburb of Austin.
Residents of Austin are known as Austinites. They include a diverse mix of government employees, college students, musicians, high-tech workers, blue-collar workers, and a vibrant LGBT community. The city's official slogan promotes Austin as The Live Music Capital of the World, a reference to the city's many musicians and live music venues, as well as the long-running PBS TV concert series Austin City Limits. The city also adopted Silicon Hills as a nickname in the 1990s due to a rapid influx of technology and development companies. In recent years, some Austinites have adopted the unofficial slogan Keep Austin Weird, which refers to the desire to protect small, unique, and local businesses from being overrun by large corporations. In the late 19th century, Austin was known as the City of the Violet Crown, because of the colorful glow of light across the hills just after sunset. Even today, many Austin businesses use the term Violet Crown in their name. Austin is known as a clean-air city for its stringent no-smoking ordinances that apply to all public places and buildings, including restaurants and bars.U.S. News & World Report named Austin the #1 place to live in the U.S. for 2017 and 2018. In 2016, Forbes ranked Austin #1 on its Cities of the Future list, then in 2017 placed the city at that same position on its list for the Next Biggest Boom Town in the U.S. Also in 2017, Forbes awarded the South River City neighborhood of Austin its #2 ranking for Best Cities and Neighborhoods for Millennials. WalletHub named Austin the #6 best place in the country to live for 2017. The FBI ranked Austin as the #2 safest major city in the U.S. for 2012.
List of company name etymologies | Wikipedia audio article
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00:00:09 0–9
00:02:10 A
00:13:44 B
00:20:49 C
00:28:55 D
00:34:47 E
00:39:31 F
00:42:59 G
00:46:20 H
00:50:54 I
00:54:04 J
00:55:36 K
01:00:01 L
01:06:41 M
01:16:46 N
01:19:41 O
01:21:34 P
01:27:29 Q
01:28:56 R
01:32:46 S
01:44:25 T
01:52:36 U
01:54:18 V
01:57:03 W
01:59:56 X
02:01:17 Y
02:03:10 Z
02:04:52 See also
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This is a list of company names with their name origins explained. Some of the origins are disputed.
List of fictional robots and androids | Wikipedia audio article
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00:00:57 1 Theatre
00:01:55 2 Literature
00:02:04 2.1 19th century and earlier
00:05:23 2.2 Early 1900s
00:06:25 2.3 1920s
00:07:43 2.4 1930s
00:08:59 2.5 1940s
00:10:54 2.6 1950s and 1960s
00:13:45 2.7 1970s
00:15:16 2.8 1980s
00:16:59 2.9 1990s
00:17:49 2.10 2000s
00:18:52 3 Radio
00:19:30 4 Music
00:20:14 5 Film
00:20:23 5.1 1940s and earlier
00:22:13 5.2 1950s
00:23:40 5.3 1960s
00:25:22 5.4 1970s
00:28:18 5.5 1980s
00:31:31 5.6 1990s
00:34:28 5.7 2000s
00:39:56 5.8 2010s
00:43:14 6 Television films and series
00:43:24 6.1 1960s and earlier
00:53:36 6.2 1970s
01:04:06 6.3 1980s
01:11:43 6.4 1990s
01:17:53 6.5 2000s
01:29:05 6.6 2010s
01:42:44 7 Comics
01:42:53 7.1 Comic Books/graphic novels
01:43:03 7.1.1 American
01:47:44 7.1.2 Australian
01:47:57 7.1.3 British
01:48:50 7.1.4 Franco-Belgian
01:50:05 7.1.5 Other European
01:51:43 7.1.6 South American
01:52:03 7.1.7 Manga (Japanese comics)
01:54:32 7.2 Comic strips
01:55:39 7.3 Web comics
01:57:53 8 Web-based media
01:58:10 8.1 Animated shorts/series
01:58:26 8.1.1 Flash
01:59:08 8.2 Web series
01:59:32 8.3 Machinima
02:00:11 8.4 Podcasts
02:01:59 9 Computer and video games
02:15:15 10 See also
02:15:56 11 Notes
02:16:05 12 External links
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Robots and androids have frequently been depicted or described in works of fiction. The word robot itself comes from a work of fiction, Karel Čapek's play, R.U.R. (Rossum's Universal Robots), written in 1920 and first performed in 1921.
This list of fictional robots and androids is chronological, and categorised by medium. It includes all depictions of robots, androids and gynoids in literature, television, and cinema; however, robots that have appeared in more than one form of media are not necessarily listed in each of those media. This list is intended for all fictional computers which are described as existing in a humanlike or mobile form. It shows how the concept has developed in the human imagination through history.
Static computers depicted in fiction are discussed in the separate list of fictional computers.