1. My hard disk has crashed and I have lost that 5,000-word report.
2. By 1989, 32-bit microprocessors containing 1.2 million transistors and capable of executing 20 million instructions per second had been introduced.
3. Some months ago, a newspaper reported that five British banks were being held to ransom [to hold smb. to ransom – òðåáîâàòü âûêóï] by a gang of hackers who had managed to break into their computers. The hackers were demanding money in return for revealing how they did it.
4. On their latest laptops, passwords have been replaced with fingerprint recognition.
5. E-commerce has completely changed the way we buy goods and services.
6. Zip file is a computer file that has been compressed so that it is easier to store and move.
7. According to the government's plans, the analog television signal will have been switched off in Russia by 2010. By this year, analog television will have been completely replaced by digital one.
8. All the newspapers reported that the Pentagon's security system had been broken into by unknown hackers last night.