TECH TALK
Before takeoff, turn off your smartphone's wireless capabilities by turning on this setting
airplane mode
This 4-letter word denotes a central rectangular area at many a college
a quad
A relational one of these systems presents the information to be stored & retrieved in rows & columns
a database (a matrix)
Molybdenum adds strength to steel as part of one of these substances composed of 2 or more elements
an alloy
It's the fear of spiders... multi-legged, creeping, sometimes venomous spiders
arachnophobia
Hand-y term for a data storage device that plugs into a USB port
a thumb drive
A 2022 study found the average cost of one of these college course units was $1,586; hope you have room on your card
credit
In 2019 South Korea was the first country to adopt this in its mobile network, logically a 25% improvement
5G
A report on Ganymede, a moon of this planet, suggests a liquid ocean under the surface & snow that falls up
Jupiter
In geometry this distance has been called a special case of perimeter
circumference
These days, more than 70% of Internet traffic is this type of video that typically uses data compression
streaming
In college, to do this is to attend a course without doing the work, & it's much less scary than the IRS kind
audit
A word plus 3 letters, this product from OpenAI is eerily good at traditionally human tasks like writing essays
ChatGPT
Formed in the 1960s, the theory of this 2-word movement of sections of the lithosphere upended earth science
tectonic plates (plate tectonics)
This kind of doctor treats diseases of the hair & nails as well as skin
a dermatologist
Windows users do not want to encounter BSOD, this colorful but fatal-sounding error
the blue screen of death
This official's office oversees student records & stuff like adding & dropping classes
a registrar
Brightspace is a system schools use to provide remote classes, like SNHU & the U. of this state capital, online since '89
Phoenix
Steel wool has lots of surface area, so when set ablaze, its mass increases as it turns into this compound also known as rust
iron oxide
This adjective means having only one color
monochromatic
Thousands of layers of material, like resin, are how one of these creates an object; the RepRap project led to a self-replicating one
3D printer
This title for a college treasurer comes from the Latin for "purse"
a bursar
If it were founded today, National Geographic might be National this "Geo-" adjective, tech including 3D mapping & remote sensing
Geospatial
The law that the total pressure of a mixture of gases is the sum of those of the component gases was stated by this Brit in 1801
John Dalton
From Latin, it's the science or philosophy of law
jurisprudence