Consumer Technology

A cathode ray tube (CRT) is a specialized vacuumtube in which images are produced when an electron beam strikes aphosphorescent surface.

Data storage is the collective methods and technologies that capture and retain digital information on electromagnetic, optical or silicon-based storage media.

In computers, a storage medium is a physical device that receives and retains electronic data for applications and users and makes the data available for retrieval.

On the internet, a walled garden is an environment that controls the user's access to network-based content and services.

A black hat hacker has been historically used to describe one who has malicious intent -- such as theft of information, fraud or disrupting systems -- but increasingly, more specific terms are being used to describe those people.

Facebook is a social networking website that was founded in February 2004 by Harvard University students Chris Hughes, Andrew McCollum, Dustin Moskovitz, Eduardo Saverin and Mark Zuckerberg.

Windows Management Instrumentation (WMI) is a set of specifications from Microsoft for consolidating the management of devices and applications in a network from Windows computing systems.

Facebook is a social networking website that was founded in February 2004 by Harvard University students Chris Hughes, Andrew McCollum, Dustin Moskovitz, Eduardo Saverin and Mark Zuckerberg.

On the internet, content filtering -- also known as information filtering -- is the use of a program to screen and exclude from access or availability webpages or email that is deemed objectionable.

Video streaming is a continuous transmission of video files from a server to a client.

A charge-coupled device (CCD) is a light-sensitive integrated circuit that captures images by converting photons to electrons.

Lossless and lossy file compression describe whether all original data can be recovered when the file is uncompressed.

A drone is an unmanned aircraft.

A system restore point is a backup copy of important Windows operating system (OS) files and settings that can be used to recover the system to an earlier point of time in the event of system failure or instability.

Facebook is a social networking website that was founded in February 2004 by Harvard University students Chris Hughes, Andrew McCollum, Dustin Moskovitz, Eduardo Saverin and Mark Zuckerberg.

A printer is a device that accepts text and graphic output from a computer and transfers the information to paper, usually to standard-size, 8.5" by 11" sheets of paper.

Offset printing, also called offset lithography, is a method of mass-production printing in which the images on metal plates are transferred (offset) to rubber blankets or rollers and then to the print media.

Rafts, skirts and brims are structures created at the base of the bottom of a 3D print. These structures are temporary and used to improve print reliability and quality.

A satellite is any object that orbits something else, as, for example, the Earth orbits the sun.

The GPS (Global Positioning System) is a 'constellation' of approximately 30 well-spaced satellites that orbit the Earth and make it possible for people with ground receivers to pinpoint their geographic location.

Bluetooth is a telecommunications industry specification that describes how mobile devices, computers and other devices can easily communicate with each other using a short-range wireless connection.