LCoS technology has its roots in the liquid crystal display (LCD) industry.
Liquid Crystal on Silicon (LCoS) is a display technology that combines liquid crystal and silicon technology to create high-resolution, high-quality images. LCoS has found applications in various display systems, including projectors, near-eye and head-mounted displays, and wavelength-selective switches.
Bluetooth, named after the Norse king Harald “Bluetooth” Gormsson who united Denmark, is a wireless technology that similarly unites various devices, allowing them to communicate and share data seamlessly over short distances.
King Bluetooth, also known as Harald Bluetooth, was a 10th-century king of Denmark and parts of Norway. Bluetooth technology, was developed by Ericsson in the 1990s as a wireless communication standard, aiming to unite various devices and facilitate seamless data exchange over short distances.
The terms Dots Per Inch (DPI) and Pixels Per Inch (PPI) are commonly used interchangeably to describe the resolution of an image. However, the terms do not mean the same thing and there are distinct differences between the two.
The digital landscape has witnessed a surge in technological advancements, leading to a multitude of terms and metrics that are often used interchangeably. One such pair of terms that is commonly misunderstood and confused is PPI (Pixels Per Inch) and DPI (Dots Per Inch).
A script kiddie, or “skiddie,” is someone who lacks programming knowledge and uses existing software to launch an attack. Often a script kiddie will use these programs without even knowing how they work or what they do.
Script kiddies, skiddies, kiddies, or skids are individuals who lack advanced technical knowledge or skills but use pre-existing automated tools and scripts to launch simple cyberattacks or defacements, often for the purpose of achieving recognition or causing mischief.
Archie began as a project for students and volunteer staff at the McGill University School of Computer Science in 1987.
Now we just Google it. In the early days of the internet, we had to Archie it. Archie is a tool for indexing FTP archives, allowing users to easily identify specific files. The name derives from the word “archive” without the v.
A USB Killer is a device that is designed to be portable and sends high-voltage power surges repeatedly into the data lines of the device it is connected to, which will damage hardware components on unprotected devices.
At the time, the storage capacity was incredible.
The Zip drive is a portable computer storage system created to help improve the capacity for files from a single computer or network. The company Iomega developed and then released the first zip drive in 1994.
24-hour cable and satellite channel based in San Francisco featuring news and shows about computers, technology, and the Internet.
G4 was launched on April 24, 2002, under the ownership of Comcast. It was created and originally led by Charles Hirschhorn, a former president of Walt Disney Television and Television Animation. Thre original intent was to compete with Techtv that was started in 1998 by Ziff-Davis.
x,y position indicator for a display system
In 1967, the patent was filed for the first mouse, calling it an “x,y position indicator for a display system.” The patent was awarded in 1970. Douglas Engelbart (January 30, 1925 – July 2, 2013) conceived the mouse while attending a conference on computer graphics, where he started thinking about how to improve interactive computing.
404: Not Found
The resource could not be found on the server. May be caused by misspelling a URI, or requesting a resource that has been deleted.
In computer network communications, the 404 error message (HTTP 404) is a hypertext transfer protocol (HTTP) standard response code, to indicate that the browser was able to communicate with a given server, but the server could not find what was requested.
