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| Emerging Technologies | Contemporary advances and innovation in various fields of technology |
| Graphene | A one atom thick layer of the layered mineral graphite. |
| Magnetic Storage | Technology that uses magnetic properties of iron oxide particles to store data more permanently that RAM. This is the type of storage used on hard drives and floppy discs. |
| Megahertz | Millions of cycles per second, a measurement used to identify CPU clock speed; for example, a 500 MHz processor runs at 500 million cycles per second. |
| Modem | An external or internal device that converts analog and digital signals from one form to the other, typically fro the purpose of connection to the internet. |
| Moore’s Law | The observation that, over the history of computing hardware, the number of transistors on an integrated circuits doubles approximately every two years. |
| Motherboard | The main circuit board of the computer where many of the hardware components are placed, such as the central processing unit, memory storage, and other supportive chips. |
| Multitask | Running more than one application at the same time. |
| Nanotechnology | The manipulation of matter on an automatic and molecular scale. |
| Machine Learning | The ability of a computer to learn with experience to become better at what it is designed to do. |
