Digital terms,
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A glossary that makes every digital term easy for anyone to learn
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575 termsBIOS
A program that runs the moment you turn on a computer, preparing its hardware components to start working.
Virtual Production
An umbrella term for filmmaking techniques that blend live-action footage with digital elements like CG.
Transcription
The process of converting spoken audio or video into written text data.
VoIP
A technology that makes phone calls by sending voice data over the internet.
Software License
The terms of use and permission a developer grants a user for using a piece of software.
NRR
A metric that measures how much revenue from existing customers has increased or decreased over a period.
BGP
A system that connects massive networks and guides the routes data takes to reach its destination.
WAAP
A unified security solution that protects websites and APIs from cyberattacks.
FPGA
A semiconductor chip whose internal circuit configuration can be programmed and changed after it's manufactured.
Semiconductor
A material whose conductivity falls between a conductor and an insulator, allowing electrical flow to be controlled.
Design Tokens
A shared, named value for design elements such as colors and font sizes.
Motion Capture
A technology that uses sensors or cameras to record the movement of people or objects and convert it into digital data.
Gradient
An effect where colors change gradually and blend naturally into one another.
Spec-Driven Development
A development approach where a specification written before implementation guides collaboration with an AI agent.
Subtitles
A feature that displays the spoken words from a video or audio track as text on the screen.
Impersonation
The fraudulent practice of using someone else's account or name without permission to pose as that person.
Build
The process of assembling program code and other development assets into working software.
Fact-Checking
Determining whether information circulating in society is accurate by examining objective facts and evidence.
Facial Recognition
A system that verifies your identity and unlocks a device just by capturing your face with a camera.
Marketing Funnel
A diagram showing the journey from first learning about a product to purchasing it, shaped like a funnel.
Watermark
A mark or technique added to images, videos, and other digital content to identify its creator or copyright owner.
Agentic Commerce
A system where AI searches for and buys products on a user's behalf, following their instructions and conditions.
Data Poisoning
A cyberattack that corrupts an AI's training data to manipulate its decisions.
Neumorphism
A design style that makes UI elements like buttons appear to softly emerge from the background in 3D.
Jitter
The variation or inconsistency in the time it takes for data to arrive.
Core Web Vitals
Google's key metrics for measuring a website's loading speed and ease of use.
Hydration
A mechanism that adds browser-side JavaScript interactivity to HTML generated on the server.
Linter
A tool that automatically checks code for syntax errors and poor coding practices.
GitOps
A development methodology that uses Git to manage a system's configuration and automate operations and settings.
Credential Stuffing
An attack that automatically tries credentials leaked elsewhere to log into other services without authorization.
Model Drift
A phenomenon where an AI's predictions become less accurate because it can't keep up with real-world changes over time.
Semantic Search
A search technology that understands the meaning and context of words, not just exact keyword matches.
Storage
A device that keeps data such as photos and videos saved for the long term without erasing it.
Event-Driven Architecture
A design approach where systems trigger processing in response to events happening between them.
CVE
A common identification number assigned to a vulnerability found in a product or system.
WebGPU
A browser standard that taps into a device's GPU to run graphics and computation tasks efficiently and at high speed.
Service Worker
A program that runs in the background of a web browser to enable offline pages and push notifications.
VPC
A mechanism for creating your own dedicated, isolated virtual network within the cloud.
SBOM
A list of the components and libraries that make up a piece of software.
Rust
A programming language for building programs that run safely and fast.
Crypto-Agility
A system's structure or ability to quickly and safely switch from an old cryptographic method to a new one.
Regularization
A technique that prevents an AI model from memorizing its training data too closely.
CNN
An AI technique that excels at picking out features in an image to identify what it shows.
Attention Mechanism
An AI mechanism that focuses on the most important parts of input data during processing.
Loss Function
A calculation that measures how far an AI's prediction is from the correct answer.
Object Detection
A technology that identifies what objects appear in an image or video and where each one is located.
Parameter Count
The number of internal numerical values that an AI adjusts through training.
Temperature Parameter
A numeric setting that controls how random an AI's output is when generating text.