NewTqnia glossary
Technology glossary
Concise, trustworthy definitions for the technical terms that appear across our news coverage.
300 terms
Runaway Supermassive Black Hole
A supermassive black hole moving away from its host galaxy after a violent interaction or merger.
Safety Guardrail
Safety-Preserving Fine-Tuning
Same-Origin Policy(SOP)
A browser security rule that limits how content from one origin can access data from another origin.
Sandbox Escape
A sandbox escape occurs when software or an automated agent breaks out of a restricted execution environment and gains access to systems, networks, files, or privileges that the isolation boundary was designed to block.
Search Data Portability
Self-Assembly
Semaglutide
A GLP-1 receptor agonist used to treat type 2 diabetes and, in some formulations, obesity.
Semi-Automated Offside Technology
Semiconductor Fab
A highly specialized facility that manufactures integrated circuits on semiconductor wafers.
Semiconductor Supply Chain
The global network of materials, equipment, fabrication, packaging, testing, and logistics required to produce chips.
Sensor Fusion
Side-Scan Sonar
A sonar technique that maps seafloor features by sending sound pulses to both sides of a moving platform.
Single-Rotor Drone
Skeletal Editing
A chemical strategy that changes atoms within a molecule's core framework without rebuilding the whole molecule.
Skin-Electrode Interface
Sleep Efficiency
The percentage of time spent asleep while in bed.
Sleep Staging
The process of identifying stages such as light sleep, deep sleep, and rapid eye movement sleep from physiological signals.
Sodium-Metal Battery
Soft Robotics
Solvent Engineering
Space-Based Computing
Specific Impulse
Spin Qubit
A qubit that stores quantum information in the spin state of an electron or another particle.
Stereolithography(SLA)
A 3D-printing process that uses controlled light to cure liquid photopolymer resin layer by layer into a solid object.
Stratospheric Smoke Injection
The transport of wildfire smoke above the troposphere into the stratosphere, where it can persist longer and influence atmospheric chemistry and climate.
Subglacial Exploration
Superconducting Qubit
Surface Code
A quantum error-correction method that arranges qubits on a grid and repeatedly measures local parity checks.
