Tech Innovation
Microsoft reported 32 million daily active users on March 11, 2020 on this video conferencing app. By October of that year, daily active users rose to 115 million
What is Teams?
In this film, a common, everyday laptop was capable of not only communicating with incompatible hardware, but with ALIEN hardware! What's more it was able to upload a virus to bring the alien technology crashing down.
What is TicToc?
Pocket, Light, Color, and Advance were all styles or variants of this video game hardware system.
What is Game Boy?
A November 1998 article titled "New CYBERSCAPE: Digital Assistants Get Sophisticated" was the first article in the New York Times's archive to use this now-ubiquitous word which, despite its name, does not necessarily refer to its IQ.
What is Smartphone?
This cyber attack involves sending fraudulent emails that appear to come from reputable organizations in order to deceive recipients
What is Spoofing?
In this movie saga, the computer obeys voice commands. Somehow it always knows when the captain is talking to it and not merely mentioning the word "computer."
What is Star Trek?
In 2001, Chip Morningstar received the first JSON message, a format derived from this core language
What is Java Script?
Amazon has "Echo,” and Google has "Home." Sharing a name with a video game about a murderous computer, this is Facebook's line that includes a tablet screen for video calls
What is Portal?
In this early computer game characters often died of dysentery. The game was later inducted into the World Video Game Hall of Fame.
What is Oregon Trail?
The name of the technology publication that was founded by Louis Rossetto and has a title one letter away from a synonym for "unrested."
What is Wired?
This cyber attack involves altering or manipulating data during transmission to gain unauthorized access or cause damage
What is a Man in the Middle attack?
In this film, a common, everyday laptop was capable of not only communicating with incompatible hardware, but with ALIEN hardware! What's more it was able to upload a virus to bring the alien technology crashing down.
Independence Day
Doug Engelbart was the inventor of this computer accessory, which was originally made of wood.
What is a mouse?
Larry Ellison co-founded a company in 1977 with the rather boring name of Software Development Laboratories (SDL). In 1983, the company introduced this word, which means prophet, into its official name
What is Oracle?
In 2017 and 2018, "CryptoKitties" which was built on this type of cryptographic technology was sold for thousands of dollars at auction.
What is Blockchain?
According to a former Facebook employee, the company used to have a master password that could unlock any user's account. This password was a variation on the name of this actor because he definitely couldn't be considered "weak"
What is Chuck Norris?
This cyberattack involves infiltrating a network and exfiltrating sensitive data without detection
What is Advanced Persistent Threat?
In this film a computer is capable of using a laser to physically transfer a human into its memory. Once there, he must compete with other programs to survive.
Tron
The Williams tube, named for inventor Freddie Williams, was the first digital storage device to use this kind of memory storage. The phrase was memorably revived in a Daft Punk album title.
What is Random Access?
This internet company with a "fowl" name was founded in 2008 as a privacy-focused alternative to Google's search engine. As of 2020, the company has fundraised more than $10 million in venture capital.
What is Duck Duck Go?
Released in 2004 by Blizzard Entertainment and set in the fictional universe of Azeroth, this computer game became the world's most popular within a few years, and continues to be referenced in popular culture with its three-letter abbreviation.
What is World of Warcraft?
Following Marshmallow, Nougat, and Oreo, this 2018 release was the last Android OS to be named for a dessert
What is Pie?
This cyber attack takes advantage of a software vulnerability unknown to the software vendor
What is Zero-day exploit?
This film has Matthew Broderick hacking into a military computer and almost starting a nuclear war.
War Games
Upon its first use in 1844, The Baltimore Sun declared that time and space have been annihilated.
What is the telegraph?
This is the name of Steve Jobs’s Apple 1976 co-founder
What is Steve Wozniak?
The first video game played in space
What is Tetris?
CAPTCHA is an acronym standing for "Completely Automated Public T______ Test to Tell Computers and Humans Apart." This surname fills in the blank providing the T in CAPTCHA
What is Turing?
This cybersecurity attack targets the wireless communication between devices
What is Wireless Sniffing?