TECH 101: BIOS (Basic Input/Output System)
BIOS (basic input/output system) is the program a computer’s microprocessor uses to start the computer system after it is powered on.
TECH 101: SEO (Search Engine Optimization)
SEO, stands for “Search Engine Optimization.” Just about every Webmaster wants his or her site to appear in the top listings of all the major search engines.
TECH 101: ASCII (American Standard Code for Information Interchange)
Stands for “American Standard Code for Information Interchange.” ASCII is a character encoding that uses numeric codes to represent characters. These include upper and lowercase English letters, numbers, and punctuation symbols.
TECH 101: ALU (Arithmetic-Logic Unit)
An arithmetic-logic unit (ALU) is the part of a computer processor (CPU) that carries out arithmetic and logic operations on the operands in computer instruction words.
TECH 101: VGA (Video Graphics Array)
The VGA standard was originally developed by IBM in 1987 and allowed for a display resolution of 640×480 pixels. Since then, many revisions of the standard have been introduced.
TECH 101: Cybersecurity
Cyber security is the application of technologies, processes and controls to protect systems, networks, programs, devices and data from cyber-attacks and the unauthorised exploitation of systems, networks and technologies.
Quantum computing: the next big tech revolution
Quantum computing is a new computing technology built on the principles of quantum physics.