‘Yello?
Facebook tried to purchase this app known for its augmented reality filters for $3 billion in 2013, but the founder of the app, Evan Spiegel, denied the bid.
Snapchat
CIRCUS, SATURN, TREE, WEDDING
Things with rings
The first modern Olympic Games were held in this country in 1896, featuring only 9 sports and 43 “activities.”
Greece
This, being the way that electrical circuits are triggered in meaningful ways to send messages to a device, is written for computers in various “languages,” such as C++, Python, R, and Java.
Code
B_ _ t propelle_
oar (boat propeller)
GroupMe, the messaging service your favorite Michigan club uses to communicate with members, is owned by this major technology company.
Microsoft
BUD, NATTY, SIERRA, STELLA
Beers, familiarly
Sarajevo, the capital city of this Balkan country, was the site of the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand and the inciting incident of World War I.
Bosnia and Herzegovina
This component of a PC is responsible for managing signals from the Central Processing Unit and allowing other parts to work together, emulating the functionality of a human nervous system.
Motherboard
Dete_i_ra_e
rot (deteriorate)
This AI-powered, Salesforce-owned service is a way for coworkers to share memos and other important information in groups called “Workspaces.”
Slack
CHECK, DIRT, PAL, PHONE
Words after “pay”
Transylvania, namesake of the hit animated movie series Hotel Transylvania, is found in this country, which is often considered to be a part of the Balkans.
Romania
While your computer’s hard drive stores the more cumbersome, long-term storage you need, the RAM, which stands for this, hosts all of the actively-running processes on your system.
Random Access Memory
Gen_sis gar_ _ _
eden (genesis garden)
This voice channel-supporting app is not publicly traded, meaning that it is largely owned by its founders, Jason Citron and Stanislav Vishnevskiy.
Discord
JUICE, SPIRIT, STEAM, VIGOR
Energy
This country, which is Europe’s youngest and one of its smallest, is incredibly youthful, with over 70% of the population being younger than 30 years old.
Kosovo
In programming, these containers are specialized formats for organizing, storing, and manipulating information. Examples include vectors, arrays, queues, linked lists, and deques.
Data Structures
Enco_ _ a _ _
urge (encourage)
Most text messages you send will be MMS, which stands for Multimedia Messaging Service; however, when you have low service, you may end up sending texts in SMS, an acronym standing for this.
Short Messaging Service
CASH, HAZE, MAC, PEC
Starts of culinary nuts
This country is both the world’s leading exporter of raspberries and the place of origin for the word “vampire,” being documented as far back as the early 1700s.
Serbia
This term for a stopping juncture in the programming process derives from the obsolete practice of physically pulling a wire out of a computer to read an intermediate result of a script.
Breakpoint
_ _vern s_out
tap (tavern spout)