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Screen burn-in, image burn-in, ghost image, or shadow image, is a permanent discoloration of areas on an electronic display such as a cathode ray tube (CRT) in an old computer monitor or television set. It is caused by cumulative non-uniform use of the screen.
Close-up of an LCD, showing a dead green subpixel as a black rectangle. A defective pixel is a pixel on a liquid crystal display (LCD) that is not functioning properly. The ISO standard ISO 13406-2 distinguishes between three different types of defective pixels, [1] while hardware companies tend to have further distinguishing types.
A hardware black screen of death that occurs when the system hard drive is unable to load the master boot record. The screen is blank apart from a flashing white text cursor.
A Yellow Screen of Death occurs when an ASP.NET web app finds a problem and crashes. [8] [self-published source?] A kernel panic is the Unix equivalent of Microsoft 's Blue Screen of Death. It is a routine called when the kernel detects irrecoverable errors in runtime correctness; in other words, when continuing the operation may risk escalating system instability, and a system reboot is ...
Arago spot experiment. A point source illuminates a circular object, casting a shadow on a screen. At the shadow's center a bright spot appears due to diffraction, contradicting the prediction of geometric optics.
Screen hotspot. A pop-up in the top of the screen after the camera recognizes a QR code. A screen hotspot, in computing, provides a special area on the display screen of a computer for hyperlinking or for other GUI -based activity (such as re-direction, pop-up display, macro execution, etc.). Hotspots may not look visually distinct; however, a ...
Windows Spotlight is a feature included with Windows 10 and Windows 11 which downloads images and advertisements from Bing and displays them as background wallpapers on the lock screen. In 2017, Microsoft began adding location information for many of the photographs.
The Dell XPS 15 Touch Screen laptop (9530, using Haswell) was first released in October 2013, and is a high-end notebook. It was the fourth generation XPS 15, which has taken many of the design elements of the Ivy Bridge Edition XPS 15 but fixes the cooling/throttling, adds a Haswell CPU and an updated GeForce GT 750M, no optical drive, and a ...