Questions
1. The Computing Tabulating Recording Corporation incorporated in June, 1911, in Endicott is now called…?
2. For which upcoming product is Sony using a Rube Goldberg Machine in a teaser commercial?
3. What innovation has Google come up with to mark June as the Gay and Lesbian Pride month?
4. Name the hacker group responsible for hacking the Web sites of Sony and CIA recently.
5. What types of cyber-activists are also known as ‘sneakers', ‘red teams', or ‘tiger teams'?
6. Name the world's ‘first decentralised digital currency' devised by programmer Satoshi Nakomoto in 2009.
7. If the current version of the Internet's address system is IPv4 and the replacement called IPv6, then what is IPv5?
8. Name Amazon's service that ‘is a marketplace for work that requires human intelligence and gives businesses access to a diverse, on-demand, scalable workforce and gives Workers a selection of thousands of tasks to complete whenever it's convenient'.
9. What started in the living room of co-founder Reid Hoffman in 2002?
10. Which game system, when launched, offered more computer power ‘than NASA used to put a man on the moon'?
Answers
1. IBM.
2. Its S1 and S2 tablets.
3. It is adding a rainbow to the right side of
the search bar when users search for terms
like ‘gay’, ‘lesbian’ or related terms.
4. LulzSec.
5. White-hat hackers.
6. Bitcoin.
7. It is a now-abandoned experimental protocol
for streaming audio and video.
8. The Mechanical Turk.
9. LinkedIn.
10. Sony PlayStation.
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