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Plain definitions of the words that keep turning up in the coverage.

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Byline

The line naming who wrote a piece. It signals responsibility for the reporting as much as authorship of…

Earnings

A company's profit over a reporting period. Share prices usually respond less to the number itself than to…

API

An application programming interface: a defined way for one piece of software to ask another for data or…

Phishing

Tricking someone into handing over credentials or money by impersonating a trusted sender. Still the most common way…

Semiconductor

The chips that do the computing. A handful of firms dominate design and an even smaller number dominate…

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