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Portal Software
Portal may refer to: Arts and entertainment Gaming * ''Portal'' (series), a series of video games developed by Valve ** ''Portal'' (video game), a 2007 video game, the first in the series ** '' Portal 2'', the 2011 sequel ** '' Portal Stories: Mel'', a mod for ''Portal 2'' ** '' Portal Revolution'', a mod for ''Portal 2'' ** '' Portal Reloaded'', a mod for ''Portal 2'' ** '' Aperture Tag'', a mod for ''Portal 2'' * ''Portal'' (1986 video game), a 1986 computer game by Activision * Portal (''Magic: The Gathering''), a set in the ''Magic: The Gathering'' card game * Portal (video game element), an element in video game design Music * Portal (band), an Australian extreme metal band * ''Portal'' (album), a 1994 album by Wendy & Carl * "Portal", a 2014 song by Lights '' Little Machines'' * ''Portals'' (Arsonists Get All the Girls album), 2009 * ''Portals'' (Sub Focus and Wilkinson album), 2020 * "Portals", by Alan Silvestri, from the soundtrack for the film '' Avengers: ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Portal (series)
''Portal'' is a series of First-person (video games), first-person puzzle-platform video games developed by Valve Corporation, Valve. Set in the ''Half-Life (series), Half-Life'' universe, the two main games in the series, ''Portal (video game), Portal'' (2007) and ''Portal 2'' (2011), center on a woman, Chell (Portal), Chell, forced to undergo a series of tests within the Aperture Science Enrichment Center by a malicious artificial intelligence, GLaDOS, that controls the facility. Most of the tests involve using the "Aperture Science Handheld Portal Device" – nicknamed the portal gun – that creates a human-sized wormhole-like connection between two flat surfaces. The player-character or objects in the game world may move through portals while conserving their momentum. This allows complex "flinging" maneuvers to be used to cross wide gaps or perform other feats to reach the exit for each test chamber. A number of other mechanics, such as lasers, light bridges, high energy p ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Portals (Melanie Martinez Album)
''Portals'' is the third studio album by American singer-songwriter Melanie Martinez. The album was released on March 31, 2023, through Atlantic Records. It is Martinez's first album after she took her usual three-and-a-half-year hiatus from releasing music. After she returned from her hiatus, she rebranded her public persona of usual light pastel colors from her previous albums and EPs, adopting prosthetic makeup and elaborate costumes to resemble a fantasy creature with darker colors with themes of nature. In support of the album, Martinez embarked on the Portals Tour in May 2023. The album had three singles: "Death", " Void", and "Evil"; the first two marked her first original appearances on the chart, respectively reaching numbers 95 and 61 on the ''Billboard'' Hot 100. The album debuted at number two on the US ''Billboard'' 200 with first-week sales of 142,000 units, becoming her highest-charting album there. Background and release In 2019, Martinez released her second s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Meta Portal
Meta Portal (also known as Portal) is a discontinued brand of smart displays and videophones released in 2018 by Meta. The product line consists of four models: Portal, Portal+, Portal TV, and Portal Go. These models provide video chat via Messenger and WhatsApp, augmented by a camera that can automatically zoom and track people's movements. The devices are integrated with Amazon's voice-controlled intelligent personal assistant service Alexa. Reviewers rated the Portal line's video and audio handling capabilities positively, but criticized Facebook's privacy practices for commercial use of data that Portal devices captured. Meta uses some data collected from Portal devices for targeted advertising, which reviewers cited as a privacy drawback. History On October 8, 2018, Facebook, Inc. announced the sale and shipment of the Portal and the Portal Plus. The second generation of Portal devices was announced on September 18, 2019; the second-generation Portal and Port ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Web Portal
A web portal is a specially designed website that brings information from diverse sources, like emails, online forums and search engines, together in a uniform way. Usually, each information source gets its dedicated area on the page for displaying information (a portlet); often, the user can configure which ones to display. Variants of portals include mashups and intranet dashboards for executives and managers. The extent to which content is displayed in a "uniform way" may depend on the intended user and the intended purpose, as well as the diversity of the content. Very often design emphasis is on a certain "metaphor" for configuring and customizing the presentation of the content (e.g., a dashboard or map) and the chosen implementation framework or code libraries. In addition, the role of the user in an organization may determine which content can be added to the portal or deleted from the portal configuration. A portal may use a search engine's application programming inter ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Intranet Portal
An intranet portal is the gateway that unifies access to enterprise information and applications on an intranet. It is a tool that helps a company manage its data, applications, and information more easily through personalized views. Some portal solutions are able to integrate legacy applications, objects from other portals, and handle thousands of user requests. In a corporate enterprise environment, it is also known as an ''enterprise portal''. Background Intranet and Internet share many elements and use the same technologies, but they fundamentally differ in their purposes. Unlike the Internet, an intranet operates within a private network. Connectivity transpires within the process called ''address mapping''. Here, Intranet addresses are converted to Internet addresses to provide the required transparency and vice versa. Through an intranet portal, a private network is able to impose its own local rules of behavior because of the installation and maintenance of a mechanism s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Enterprise Portal
An enterprise portal, also known as an enterprise information portal (EIP), is a framework for integrating information, people and processes across organizational boundaries in a manner similar to the more general web portals. Enterprise portals provide a secure unified access point, often in the form of a web-based user interface, and are designed to aggregate and personalize information through application-specific portlets. One hallmark of enterprise portals is the de-centralized content contribution and content management, which keeps the information always updated. Another distinguishing characteristic is that they cater for customers, vendors and others beyond an organization's boundaries. This contrasts with a corporate portal which is structured for roles within an organization. History The mid-1990s saw the advent of public web portals. These sites provided a key set of features (e.g., news, e-mail, weather, stock quotes, and search) that were often presented in self- ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Captive Portal
A captive portal is a web page accessed with a web browser that is displayed to newly connected users of a Wi-Fi or wired network before they are granted broader access to network resources. Captive portals are commonly used to present a landing or log-in page which may require authentication, payment, acceptance of an end-user license agreement/ acceptable use policy, survey completion, or other valid credentials that both the host and user agree to adhere by. Captive portals are used for a broad range of mobile and pedestrian broadband services – including cable and commercially provided Wi-Fi and home hotspots. A captive portal can also be used to provide access to enterprise or residential wired networks, such as apartment houses, hotel rooms, and business centers. The captive portal is presented to the client and is stored either at the gateway or on a web server hosting the web page. Depending on the feature set of the gateway, websites or TCP ports can be allow-listed so ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Eric Weinstein
Eric Ross Weinstein (; born October 26, 1965) is an American investor and financial executive. , he was managing director for the American venture capital firm Thiel Capital. Weinstein hosted a podcast called ''The Portal'', coined the term " intellectual dark web", and has proposed a theory of everything called "Geometric Unity" that has largely been met with skepticism in the scientific community. Education Weinstein received a Ph.D. in mathematics from Harvard University in 1992 under the supervision of Raoul Bott. Reprinted in: In his dissertation, "Extension of Self-Dual Yang-Mills Equations Across the Eighth Dimension", Weinstein showed that the self-dual Yang–Mills equations were not peculiar to dimension four and admitted generalizations to higher dimensions. Career Finance In 2013, Weinstein was working as an economist and consultant at the Natron Group, a New York City–based hedge fund. , Weinstein is the managing director for Thiel Capital, a venture capital f ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Portals (initiative)
Portals is a global public art initiative that connects people around the globe through real-time video audiovisual technology housed inside a gold-painted, converted shipping container or other structure. Individuals and groups enter local Portals and engage with individuals or groups in distant Portals through live, full-body video conferencing. The experience has been described as "breathing the same air." Portals are placed in public spaces such as public squares, museums, university campuses, high-level summits, and refugee camps. Participation is free, and the spaces are maintained by staff called Portal_Curators. History The project was started in 2014 by artist Amar Bakshi, and initially connected the cities of New York and Tehran. According to Bakshi, he started the project "to connect people who wouldn't otherwise meet.” He had the idea to start the project after his days as a foreign journalist, where he launched How the World Sees America for The Washington Post ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
New York–Dublin Portal
The ''New York–Dublin Portal'' (also simply known as ''The Portal'') is an interactive installation created by Lithuanian artist Benediktas Gylys to allow people in New York City and Dublin to interact with each other using two 24-hour live streaming video screens (without audio). The second series of installations in Gylys' '' Portal'' series, the ''New York–Dublin Portal'' has been compared to Paul St George's past art installation named the Telectroscope, which connected New York to London in 2008. The portal first opened on Wednesday, 8 May 2024 and closed on Monday, 2 September 2024 due to inappopriate behaviour and nudity. History The Portal sculpture concept was created by Benediktas Gylys. The first of these to be unveiled was the portal linking Vilnius, Lithuania to Lublin, Poland on May 26, 2021. Following its success, it was confirmed in March 2024 that by spring, Dublin and New York would be the next cities to receive them. On Wednesday, May 8, 2024, the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vilnius–Lublin Portal
The Vilnius–Lublin Portal is a public attraction that videoconferences between separate outdoor structures in Vilnius, Lithuania, and Lublin, Poland. Description The portal connects Vilnius, Lithuania, and Lublin, Poland, through large, public structures that use videoconference technology, with a camera showing one location on the screen of the other. Development Benediktas Gylys conceived the portal concept with the desire to unify and develop empathy in onlookers. The project is a joint venture between the Benediktas Gylys Foundation, the Cities of Vilnius and Lublin, and the latter's Center for Intercultural Creative Initiatives. The portal took five years to develop into its final form. Engineers from Vilnius Gediminas Technical University's Creativity and Innovation Center designed the portal. It was designed as a circle to recall themes of time and from science fiction. Each portal weighs 11 tons. The project totaled in costs. The project had won a competition to ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Portal (sculptures)
The ''Portal'' is a series of sculpture attractions which videoconference between one another. Created by Lithuanian artist Benediktas Gylys, they are large, identical circular sculptures that are located in various public city spaces, connecting two cities together by displaying a livestream of each city along with a camera on top of the screen. Initially starting as a concept in 2016, the first two installations of the ''Portal'' series were unveiled in 2021 for the Vilnius–Lublin Portal. In 2024, the New York–Dublin Portal, the next two and most recent installations in the series, were unveiled. Description Each ''Portal'' is a large, circular sculpture featuring a screen and a camera. It connects with another ''Portal'', both capturing and displaying a livestream of each other. It was designed by Vilnius Gediminas Technical University's engineering department as a reference to the wheel of time. History According to ''Portal'' creator Benediktas Gylys, the projec ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
