It all begins when you take a ____. You press the camera icon on your screen. The software sends instructions that tell the phone what to do. ____ is a set of commands that control the hardware — the parts you can see and touch. Without software, the ____ would be silent and still. Deep inside the device, the processor or ____ wakes up. It acts like the ____ of the computer, following every instruction in perfect order. The CPU performs ____ of quick calculations, working out how the light, focus, and colour should look in your photo. Across the ____, a maze of metal paths begins to sparkle with energy. Tiny bursts of ____ carry streams of ____ — ones and zeros — that represent your image. To us, it’s a photo. To the computer, it’s a pattern of data racing at incredible speed between chips and circuits. The memory, called ____, catches the data and holds it for a short while. It keeps your image ready so you can see it instantly. But RAM is only ____. When you switch off the device, its contents disappear. That’s why your selfie must be saved somewhere more ____. The photo is then stored safely in ____ — a ____, an SSD, or in the cloud (a computer on the internet). The ____, another type of software, keeps everything organised so you can find your image later. Finally, the graphics card and ____ work together to show your selfie in full colour. Thousands of ____ light up to form your face. Every part — both hardware and software — has played a role. Hardware is the ____ of the computer. Software is its ____. Together, they turn electric pulses into the pictures, games, and ideas we see every day.

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