Acomputing concept that has been in the news of late is iot (the internet of things). briefly explain the concept of iot. what are some of the affordances of iot ( list at least one positive outcome as well as one potentially negative outcome).

What are compression artifacts? 1) visible defects in the picture caused by the nature of the compression algorithm. 2) numbers that tell a web server how much to compress a picture for faster transmission. 3) invisible defects in the picture preserved by lossless compression. 4) numbers that tell a photo editing program how much to compress a picture for faster transmission.

Dr. wisteria is a prominent chiropractor in the chicago area. she wants to provide a forum for her patients to discuss their health concerns and to seek and offer advice to other patients. which telecommunications tool is most appropriate for dr. wisteria's needs?

Consider a direct-mapped cache with 216 words in main memory. the cache has 16 blocks of 8 words each. it is a word-addressable computer (rather than a byte-addressable computer which we normally discuss). (a) how many blocks of main memory are there? (b) what is the format of a memory address as seen by the cache, that is, what are the sizes of the tag, cache block, and block offset fields (if they apply)? (c) to which cache block will the memory reference db6316 map?