Twos Complement, The method of representing negative integers in binary, Mantissa, Represents teh significant bits of a floating point number, Exponent, Represents the power  of a number in floating point representation, Unicode, Uses 16 bits to represent a single character, ASCII, Uses 8 bits to represent a single character, Bitmap, Images lose quality when scaled, Vector, Objects can be edited independently, ALU, Performs calculations and comparisons in the processor, Register, Small storage locations in the processor, Cores, Increasing the number of these in the processor allows the processor to perfrorm more tasks at the same time, Data Bus, Increasing the width of this allows more data to be transferred in a single fetch-execute cycle, Cache, Increasing this allows more frequently used instructions to be stored closer to the processor, Intelligent Systems, Systems which can sense the world around them and communicated with other systems, Denial Of Service, Symptoms of this kind of attack might include slow performance of a website or service, Cookies, Small files stored on a users computer which track personal browsing habits.

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