Infosys Campus Connect Daily K10 : 2019/036

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Dear Professor, Greetings from Infosys Campus Connect Team!!! Please find below links for the information related to latest technology and trends. This could help your faculty members and/or your college students. Tech News for the Day A Deep Dive on the Recent Widespread DNS Hijacking Attacks On Nov. 27, 2018, Cisco’s Talos research division published a write-up outlining the contours of a sophisticated cyber espionage campaign it dubbed “DNSpionage.” Flexible display talk: Smartphone might fold around your wrist A phone that folds? Smartphone vendors think it can capture imaginations as they work to come up with newer gee-whiz designs to sell phones. China wants to put a solar farm in space by 2025 The orbiting station will harvest power directly from the sun. Programmer News for the Day IBM researchers develop a technique to virtually patch vulnerabilities ahead of threat Researchers at IBM have recently devised a new technique to virtually patch security vulnerabilities before they are found. Facebook’s chief AI scientist: Deep learning may need a new programming language Deep learning may need a new programming language that’s more flexible and easier to work with than Python, Facebook AI Research director Yann LeCun said today. Programming Interview Questions Are Too Hard and Too Short A coding exercise that would seem simple under normal circumstances somehow becomes a formidable challenge under the bright lights of an interview room. Word for the Day malaise noun mal· aise | \ mə-ˈlāz  , ma-, -ˈlez  \ : an indefinite feeling of debility or lack of health often indicative of or accompanying the onset of an illness An infected person will feel a general malaise. More Puzzle for the Day Anagram for the Day Who am I Puzzle What is it that you throw away the outside and then cook the inside. Then you eat the outside and throw away the inside? The item is naturally occurring. Solution (Previous Puzzle): Neves. These are the first few numbers with their first and last letters swapped. An anagram is a word made by using letters of another word in a different order. Example: shot à host Find the anagram for the following: Field Fired Flees Solution (Previous): EAGER : AGREE EXIST : EXITS FIBER : BRIEF Innovation of the Day In 1842, the first U.S. patent (of which there is any record) for a sewing machine was issued to John J. Greenough of Washington, DC. (No. 2,466) as "A Machine for Sewing or Stitching all Kinds of Straight Seams." In 1858, the first electrical burglar alarm installation in the U.S. was made by Edwin T. Holmes in Boston, Mass. In 1865, a U.S. patent was issued for the universal milling machine invented by Joseph Rogers Brown (No. 46,521). Video for the Day Podcast for the Day Einstein's Theory of General Relativity How are spacetime, dark matter and gravity related? In celebration of the centennial of Einstein's theory of general relativity, this video breaks it down. The cost of life-saving vaccines : BBC 6 Mins English The price of vaccines has escalated and some poor countries are struggling prevent children from catching certain life-threatening diseases. The warning comes from the organisation Medecins Sans Frontieres. It criticises the drug companies which reply that they can’t make such complex medicine cheaper than they already do. Idiom for the Day take aback surprised or confused by something unexpected He was taken aback by the direct questions posed by the interviewer. More Quote for the Day “If you want to be successful, it’s just this simple: know what you are doing, love what you are doing, and believe in what you are doing.” Will Rogers Thanks & Regards, Team Campus Connect, Infosys Limited