Tech Industry
What startup, acquired by Facebook for $1 billion in 2012, became the fourth most downloaded app in the 2010s and is known for the posting of pictures?
Frequently involving a mobile device or email correspondence, what does the security term MFA refer to when dealing with computer-granted access?
Multi factor authentication
PDF is, unsurprisingly, an acronym. What does PDF stand for?
Portable Document Format
What is the programming language developed by James Gosling at Sun Microsystems and named after the type of coffee from Indonesia?
Java
Dr. D.J. Patil was named the first White House Chief Data Scientist of the Office of Science and Technology Policy, under which President's administration?
Barack Obama
Wi-Fi is a family of wireless network protocols modeled after the IEEE 802 set of LAN protocols. What does the initialism LAN stand for?
Local Area Network
Supposedly pronounced as "wizziwig," what is the meaning of the acronym WYSIWYG? The phrase largely means that the printer will print what you see on your monitor.
What you see is what you get
What term is used for the most basic level or core of an operating system, responsible for resource allocation, file management and security? In a different context, this word can also mean the seed and hard husk of a cereal.
Kernel
Eric Yuan is a former Cisco engineer and executive that left the telecom giant to found what 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.
Zoom
The name Wi-Fi was coined by brand-consulting firm Interbrand when asked to come up with a name that was "a little catchier than 'IEEE 802.11b Direct Sequence'." The term Wi-Fi was ultimately chosen as a pun on "hi-fi." What does hi-fi stand for as it relates to audio technology?
High fidelity
Although the technology has existed for at least 50 years, in the 2000s was the first time that efficacy and output increased enough in LED lights to be used in applications such as car headlights. What does LED stand for?
Light emitting diode
A dude named Chip Morningstar received the first JSON message, a format derived from what core language repped by the "JS"?
JavaScript
What popular operating system, launched in 1991, also has its own mascot, Tux the penguin?
Linux
What is the 6-letter term for a group of computers that is networked together and used by hackers to steal information?
Botnet
When a password is limited strictly to numeric characters, the secret is often referred to as a PIN. What does that acronym stand for?
Personal Identification Number
In the widely used database language SQL, there are four types of "join" functions: left, right, and what two other joins?
Inner and Outer
What computer and printer giant was founded in 1939 in Palo, Alto, CA? It is sometimes better known by the two-letter acronym based on its founders names
Hewlett-Packard
The integrated circuit intended to securely store information and a key on a mobile phone is widely known as a SIM card. What is does SIM stand for?
Subscriber Identity Module
Doug Engelbart was the inventor of what computer accessory? The first one was made from wood.
Mouse
In 2005, Linus Torvalds created software for tracking changes on files in order to improve development of the Linux kernel. Since 2005, the open-source software has had Junio Hamano as the core maintainer. What is the three-letter name of this uber-popular software among developers?
GIT