technology terms

2. the most important processor in a given computer.
3. a method of transmitting and receiving messages using electronic devices.
5. a coding format for digital audio developed largely by the Fraunhofer Society.
6. hardware or software component that stores data so that future requests for that data can be served faster.
9. mapping from some domain (for example, a range of integers) to bits.
11. a bitmap image format that was developed by a team at the online services provider.
12. is a type of computer program that, when executed, replicates itself by modifying other computer programs and inserting its own code into those programs.
13. a method of representing data in a visual, machine-readable form.
14. form of computer memory that can be read and changed in any order, typically used to store working data and machine code.
16. represents text, computer processor instructions, or any other data using a two-symbol system.
17. 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.

1. a digital multimedia container format most commonly used to store video and audio.
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.
4. American multinational technology company headquartered in Cupertino, California.
6. protection of computer systems and networks from attack by malicious actors that may result in unauthorized information disclosure
7. 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.
8. a commonly used method of lossy compression for digital images
10. documents, including text formatting and images, in a manner independent of application software, hardware, and operating systems.
15. a collection of discrete values that convey information, describing the quantity, quality, fact, statistics, other basic units of meaning.
18. mobile operating system based on a modified version of the Linux kernel and other open-source software.