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100

This widely used open source library was the subject of the Heartbleed vulnerability.

What is OpenSSL?

100

This recent ARM SoC replaced x64 CPUs in this company's computer lineup.

What is the Apple M1?

100

Tech on, Tech off.

What is RTX?

100

This pattern is heavily used by the C++ standard library to allow algorithms to traverse elements in containers.

What is the Iterator pattern?

100

This language has been extremely popular in the ML community.

What is Python?

200

Development of this graphics API ceased in 2017 in favor of a lower level successor API.

What is OpenGL?

200

This microarchitecture released in 2017 and reintroduced chiplets to CPU design.

What is the Zen microarchitecture?

200

Now on its third iteration, this technology has been boosting framerates on Nvidia GPUs.

What is DLSS?

200

This is a pattern sometimes used to reduce the overhead of acquring locks.

What is Double Checked Locking?

200

Created in the 1970s, this language is still in use today for low level software.

What is C?

300

This open source 3D modeling and animation software was first released in 1994.

What is Blender?

300

This failed attempt at a GPGPU was meant to be released in 2010 before being canceled entirely.

What is Larabee?

300

This technical conference was started by Nvidia in 2009 to focus on GPU computing.

What is GTC?

300

This design pattern is commonly used to implement a divide-and-conquer approach to processing data in parallel.

What is Fork-join?

300

This recent systems programming language has been gaining steadily in popularity.

What is Rust?

400

This popular collection of open source software is "not unix!"

What is GNU?

400

This 2012 GPU came in a "GHz Edition" model.

What is the Radeon HD7970?

400

This technology integrates with game engines to reduce input latency.

What is Reflex?

400

This pattern is often provided as a language feature for writing asynchronous, non-blocking code.

What is Async/Await?

400

This language is commonly embedded in game engines for use as a scripting language.

What is Lua?

500

This free open source game engine recently released its v4.0 version.

What is Godot?

500

This was the codename of the first Intel CPUs to use the "Core iX" nomenclature.

What is Nehalem?

500

This was the branding of a short lived series of motherboard chipsets made by Nvidia.

What is nForce?

500

Named after a Greek island, this distributed consensus algorithm debuted in a paper written by Leslie Lamport.

What is Paxos?

500

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What is Lisp?

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