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Open-source intelligence (OSINT) began during WWII with early services like the BBC Monitoring Service and evolved with digital advancements. It...
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What’s a VPN kill switch? A kill switch is a security feature of a VPN. It suspends your device’s...
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Google Professional Certificates, offered as online certification programs through Coursera, help students and professionals of varying backgrounds build Google and...
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Live streaming has grown in popularity due to the quick evolution of audiovisual and streaming technology over the past decade....
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Coursera is an online education platform that offers a variety of courses and certificate programs from top universities and leading...
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A cloud service provider (CSP) is an information technology (IT) services vendor that allows clients to manage applications and data...
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Sucuri is a web application security company specializing in comprehensive website security for individual sites up to enterprise web content...
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Apple’s macOS (also known as Mac OS X or simply OS X) operating system as we know it today has...
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Firebase is development software for building mobile and web applications. When Google acquired it in 2014, the tech giant made...
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Bluehost is a top web hosting provider for businesses looking to create a website. The company is known best for...
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Visual Studio (VS) Code is an open-source code editor primarily used to correct and repair cloud and web applications coding...
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A SSL (Secure Socket Layer) Certificate is a digital license that ensures an encrypted data connection between a website or...
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Fastly is a US-based cloud computing service provider. It offers an edge cloud platform designed to extend the core cloud...
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A vector image is a digital image in which points, lines, and curves based on mathematical equations are used to...
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Docker is an open-source platform used for developing and running applications by allowing users to package the software application into...
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If your Mac computer is behaving strangely, it may be time for a reboot. There are a few different ways...
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Cloudflare is a content delivery network (CDN) that ensures the security, integrity, and reliability of a company’s IT infrastructure, applications,...
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Xcode is Apple’s integrated development environment (IDE) used in developing software for macOS, iOS, watchOS, and tvOS. The Xcode IDE...
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Wide-area networks (WAN) and local-area networks (LAN) describe how physically close devices are within a computer network – which influences...
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TIFF (Tag Image File Format) is an image format for editing and storing high-resolution digital images. Because it allows color...
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What is GroupMe? GroupMe is a group messaging application that provides useful and interactive features for group communications. GroupMe chats...
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Akamai Technologies is a global web technology company specializing in content delivery network (CDN) solutions, cloud services, and cybersecurity for...
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HTTPS (Hypertext Transfer Protocol Secure), the secure update of HTTP, uses an authentication process to encrypt the connection between web browsers (or clients) and servers. This process overlays Transport...
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An Integrated Development Environment (IDE) is software designed to simplify the development process of applications by coordinating all programming and...
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Pycharm is a dedicated and cross-platform integrated development environment (IDE) for the Python programming language. It incorporates a wide range...
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Fios is Verizon Wireless’s bundle solution for internet, phone, and television services. Fios is an abbreviation of Fiber Optic Service...
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Web hosting makes a web server available to businesses with varying degrees of provider management. Customers host their websites on...
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Internet protocol (IP) is a primary set of communication protocols for exchanging data packets or datagrams across internet-connected networks. The...
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In graphical user interfaces, to “zoom” or “zoom in” is to make a window larger to see the window’s contents...
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A stock photo is a professional-grade photograph that is available for free or bought and sold for a range of...
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A memory leak is a bug in a program or application that prevents it from freeing up device memory that...
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Need a hand in sending your first direct message (DM) on one of the fastest growing social media platforms in...
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The hard disk drive within a computer stores all of the device’s persistent, or secondary, storage. As computer users download...
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A web application is a software program (or website) capable of receiving dynamic content requests and delivering resources over the...
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Updated by Jenna Phipps Google Hangouts is a cloud-based messaging and video chat application developed by Google. It started as...
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An iFrame, short for inline frame, is an HTML document embedded within another HTML document. Web developers frequently use iFrames...
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Domain hosting refers to businesses that specialize in hosting domain names for individuals and companies. Domain names are used in...
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Web hosting services are when service providers offer shared hosting or dedicated hosting of a service or services to customers....
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Short for Platform-as-a-Service, PaaS is defined as a computing platform being delivered as a service. The platform is outsourced in...
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A blog search engine is specifically focused on finding content in the blogosphere. Blog search engines only index and provide...
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A search engine results page, abbreviated SERP, is a page of listed articles that a search engine selects from its...
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A content delivery network (CDN) is a system of geographically distributed servers that work together to provide fast delivery of...
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Stateless—as opposed to stateful—is the property within information technology where a system doesn’t store historical information about a user or...
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A gigabyte is a measurement of data, used to describe file size and storage amounts. It is abbreviated as GB....
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The File Transfer Protocol (FTP) is a communication protocol providing for the transfer of files between remote devices and a...
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Hypertext Markup Language (HTML) is the primary language standard used to organize and format web pages and other documents on...
