Ransomware
Internet extortion software that, when downloaded, encrypts the contents of your hard drive. The parties responsible demand payment to decrypt your data.
Power Leveling
Rapidly rising through the levels of a multiplayer game by questionable means, like paying a service to play your character around the clock.
Blood-Spinning
Used by athletes to accelerate the healing of injuries. A sample of blood is spun in a centrifuge to amplify its natural growth hormones, after which it gets topically applied or injected into a wound. The World Anti-Doping Agency frowns on the practice.
Roadcasting
A streaming network that, if realized, would allow motorists to broadcast in-car digital music libraries and podcasts to other vehicles within a 30-mile radius.
- Gareth Branwyn (jargon@wiredmag.com)
Thanks to contributor Alberto Gaitén
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