Daily Byte from Infosys Campus Connect : 2018/239

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 Google pledges to hold off on selling facial recognition technology The company says important policy questions need to be answered first. Brave browser switches to Chromium code base for faster performance After Microsoft opted to use it for Edge last week, privacy-focused browser Brave announced that it has switched to Chromium with its latest release, v.0.57. Windows Server 2019 officially supports OpenSSH for the first time Back in 2015, Microsoft said it would build OpenSSH, a set of utilities that allow clients and servers to connect securely, into Windows, while also making contributions to its development. Programmer News for the Day Real-Time Stock Processing With Apache NiFi and Apache Kafka, Part1 A big data expert starts his series on using Kafka and NiFi for real-time data flow programming. Interactive Data Visualization in Python With Bokeh Bokeh prides itself on being a library for interactive data visualization. Rounding Numbers in Python Quiz Test your knowledge of rounding numbers with Python. Take this quiz after reading How to Round Numbers in Python. Word for the Day annals plural noun an·​nals | \ˈa-nᵊlz  \ : a record of events arranged in yearly sequence the annals of the twentieth century are available in this shelf. More Puzzle for the Day Tea or Coffee Puzzle Imagine you have one cup of tea and one cup of coffee. Place a spoonful of the tea into the coffee and stir well. Then place a spoonful of the tea/coffee mixture back into the tea. Does the cup of coffee now contain more tea, or the cup of tea more coffee? Solution (Previous Puzzle): Millimetres in a mile. There are 1,609,344 millimetres in a mile and just over 1,259,842 sixteenths of inch in 2 kilometres. Innovation of the Day In 1839, John William Draper took a daguerreotype of the moon, the first celestial photograph made in the U.S. He exposed the plate for 20 minutes using a 5-inch telescope and produced an image one inch in diameter. In 1912, the discovery of the skull known as Piltdown man, the first important fossil human skull ever to be unearthed in England was announced at a meeting of the Geological Society of Great Britain.   In 1958, the first American communications satellite was launched. Project SCORE was put into orbit from Cape Canaveral using an Atlas B missile, also the first successful trial of the Atlasas a space launch vehicle. Video for the Day What is a fungus? What is a fungus? From toadstools to yeast, delve deeper into the diverse kingdom of fungi, and find out just how different (and similar) they are to animals and plants. Wiki for the Day Iterative deepening depth-first search: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iterative_deepening_depth-first_search Quote for the Day “If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people.” Virginia Woolf Thanks & Regards, Team Campus Connect, Infosys Limited