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These three words form the acronym GUI, often pronounced “gooey”,
What is Graphical User Interface
This video game is the best-selling video game of all time, selling more than 300 million copies across various platforms.
What is Minecraft?
Since 2013, this technology company focused on payments has owned the popular smartphone cash transfer app Venmo
What is Paypal
This fictional company on "The Office," according to Michael Scott, has had eight "IT guys," including Lozenge, Shorts, and Nick.
What is Dunder Mifflin?
This "sizzling" name of the proprietary computer bus and power connector that has been used to charge and connect Apple mobile devices since 2012
What is Lightning?
This programming language was developed by James Gosling at Sun Microsystems and named after a type of coffee from Indonesia
What is Java?
This video game console released in 2006 pioneered the use of motion controls in its gameplay
What is Nintendo Wii?
Pierre Omidyar founded this popular online auction company in 1995 out of San Jose, California
What is eBay?
"Cars" was the final Pixar film to be released on VHS and also the first to be released on this post-DVD high-resolution technology.
What is Blu Ray?
Eric Yuan is a former Cisco engineer and executive that left the telecom giant to found this speedy meeting company in 2011. The company released its first version of their eponymous software two years later and had a "breakout year" in 2020.
What is Zoom?
Programmer Lou Montulli coined this delicious computer term to refer to information that is sent from the browser to the web server
What is a Cookie?
This video game held the largest virtual concert in a game, bringing in 12.3 million users and making $20M in revenue.
What is Fortnite?
ByteDance is a Chinese internet technology company headquartered in Beijing that is most famously the owner of this mega-popular social media platform.
What is TikTok?
This media streaming device's name translates to the number 6 in Japanese, a nod to this being the 6th company started by its founder, Anthony Wood.
What is Roku?
British-born geophysicist Cecil Green lived in Toronto and San Francisco growing up, and ultimately earned two college degrees from M.I.T. However, when he cofounded this calculator company, the firm included a different state in its name.
What is Texas Instruments?
These three words form the acronym, PIN, which is used when a password is limited strictly to numeric characters.
What is a Personal Identification Number?
Condor Cluster was the nickname of the supercomputer built by the Air Force Research Laboratory in 2010 made of 1,760 units of this video game console that debuted November 11, 2006 and was the first to use Blu-ray Discs.
What is Sony PlayStation 3?
This American tech company started with its founders' idea to rent out an air mattress in their San Fransisco living room to travelers hoping to avoid the city's high cost of rent.
What is Airbnb?
This USA Network series starred Rami Malek as Elliot, an antisocial computer programmer who's a cybersecurity engineer by day and a vigilante hacker by night.
What is Mr. Robot?
Dr. D.J. Patil was named the first White House Chief Data Scientist of the Office of Science and Technology Policy, under this President's administration
Who is Barack Obama?
The word “cyborg” is a portmanteau of this two-word term describing a bionic human,
What is cybernetic organism?
Pocket, Light, Color, and Advance were all styles or variants of this video game hardware system.
What is Game Boy?
In 1998. Jeff Bezos made a deal with British film fan Col Needham to purchase this movie database site for $55 million
What is IMDb?
In this 1987 film starring Peter Weller and Nancy Allen, the city of Detroit signs a deal with the company Omni Consumer Products to re-build parts of the city into a utopia and introduce a law enforcement robot ED-209.
What is RoboCop?
The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) is the majority owner of this manufacturing company which predominantly sells audio equipment. The company was founded by an associate professor who later in life donated his shares to the school.
What is Bose?