Tech Vocab
A hand-held device capable of receiving calls and accessing the internet.
What is a smartphone?
A way to describe the typical style of American dress.
What is casual/informal?
Whistle past the graveyard.
How visionary leadership works in a company.
What is the CEO or leader lays out a clear goal or vision and all parts of the company work to realize that vision?
The company with the highest market capitalization in the world.
Used to control the cursor on a computer. The same name is used for a rodent.
What is a mouse?
This is one of the most important things when it comes to meeting with Americans.
What is punctuality?
In the same boat.
What is to be in the same situation as others?
Living paycheck to paycheck.
A company founded by Jeff Bezos which is involved in shipping and logistics, technology, media, etc.
What is Amazon?
When a computer system uses algorithms and patterns of data to draw inferences, without specific instructions.
What is machine learning?
A word which Canadians are known to use at the end of their sentences. The Canadian equivalent of the American "...huh?"
What is "...eh?"
Knocked my socks off.
What is to be extremely or surprisingly good or enjoyable?
"Deliverables" in a company.
What are things which a company provides to a client in exchange for payment, measurable/tangible goods delivered to a client.
The prime competitor to Tesla and one of the top selling auto brands in the world.
What is BYD?
Software designed to interact with humans through conversations.
A popular British sitcom which came to the US and enjoyed great success while showing the difference between US and UK humor.
What is The Office?
Run this by (someone).
What is to mention or explain a topic or idea in order to get the approval or opinion of a third party?
What is rephrasing the question in the answer, thanking the asker for the question, checking for understanding/satisfaction after answering, avoiding or saving for later off-topic questions?
Chinese AI language model released in 2025 which caused serious changes in the American AI market.
What is DeepSeek?
The acronym and full title for the memory capacity of a computer.
What is RAM/Random Access Memory?
Canada, Australia, and New Zealand all have this in common in regards to their relationship with the UK which the US does not share.
What is being/having been a British Commonwealth Territory?
Bang for your buck.
What is to be very good value for money?
A license or right which you hold in regards to the reproduction, use, and sale of an original technology, allowing only you to, the creator, to benefit financially.
What is a patent?
Stated reasons for the creation of the lab/company OpenAI.
What is the creation of helpful AI for humanity, protection against the existencial threat of AI, development of societal "scaffolding," using AI.