technology terms
Across
- 2. small blocks of data created by a web server while a user is browsing a website and placed on the user's computer or other device by the user's web browser.
- 3. a commonly used method of lossy compression for digital images, particularly for those images produced by digital photography.
- 4. a collection of discrete values that convey information, describing the quantity, quality, fact, statistics, other basic units of meaning, or simply sequences of symbols that may be further interpreted.
- 7. a mapping from some domain (for example, a range of integers) to bits
- 8. a coding format for digital audio developed largely by the Fraunhofer Society in Germany under the lead of Karlheinz Brandenburg,
- 9. a hardware or software component that stores data so that future requests for that data can be served faster;
- 11. a form of computer memory that can be read and changed in any order, typically used to store working data and machine code.
- 14. a mobile operating system based on a modified version of the Linux kernel and other open-source software, designed primarily for touchscreen mobile devices such as smartphones and tablets.
- 15. a method of transmitting and receiving messages using electronic devices.
- 18. represents text, computer processor instructions, or any other data using a two-symbol system. The two-symbol system used is often "0" and "1
Down
- 1. a bitmap image format that was developed by a team at the online services provider CompuServe led by American computer scientist Steve Wilhite
- 2. small blocks of data created by a web server while a user is browsing a website and placed on the user's computer or other device by the user's web browser.
- 5. a mobile operating system exclusively for its hardware.
- 6. a method of representing data in a visual, machine-readable form.
- 10. is a proprietary audio/video interface for transmitting uncompressed video data and compressed or uncompressed digital audio data from an HDMI-compliant source device, such as a display controller, to a compatible computer monitor, video projector, digital television, or digital audio device.
- 12. any software intentionally designed to cause disruption to a computer, server, client, or computer network, leak private information, gain unauthorized access to information or systems, deprive access to information, or which unknowingly interferes with the user's computer security and privacy.
- 13. a file format developed by Adobe in 1992 to present documents, including text formatting and images, in a manner independent of application software, hardware, and operating systems.
- 16. a digital multimedia container format most commonly used to store video and audio, but it can also be used to store other data such as subtitles and still images.
- 17. a type of computer program that, when executed, replicates itself by modifying other computer programs and inserting its own code into those programs.