Daily Byte from Infosys Campus Connect : 2018/241

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 US ballistic missile systems have very poor cyber-security DOD report finds no antivirus, no data encryption, no multifactor authentication. Apple hires designer Andrew Kim away from Tesla The hire renews speculation of an Apple-designed car SpaceX raising $500 million to help build satellite broadband network SpaceX raising cash after getting approval to launch up to 11,943 satellites. Programmer News for the Day Continuous Integration With Python: An Introduction How do professional teams make dozens of changes per day while making sure everyone is coordinated and nothing is broken? Enter continuous integration! Memory Management in Python In this article, we’re going to do a deep dive into the internals of Python to understand how it handles memory management. Python Argument Surprise Python function signatures are flexible, complex beasts, allowing for positional, keyword, variable, and variable keyword arguments (and parameters). Word for the Day annotate verb an·​no·​tate | \ˈa-nə-ˌtāt  \ : to make or furnish critical or explanatory notes or comment He annotated the text at several places. More Puzzle for the Day Tide Puzzle A ship is docked in the harbour. Over the side hangs a rope ladder with rungs a foot apart. The tide rises at a rate of 9 inches per hour. At the end of six hours, how much of the rope ladder will still remain above water, assuming that 9 feet were above the water when the tide began to rise? Solution (Previous Puzzle): The two sons rowed to safety first, one son rowed back. I rowed to safety and the other son rowed back to the island. The two sons rowed to safety first, one son rowed back again. My wife rowed to safety and the other son rowed back. Finally, the two sons rowed to safety. Innovation of the Day In 1879, Thomas A. Edison privately demonstrated his incandescent light at Menlo Park, New Jersey. He had invented the lamp on 21 Oct 1879 after 13 months of experimentation to discover a suitable material for the filament. In 1892, the first U.S. patent issued for a pneumatic automobile tire that could readily and easily be detached or mounted to the rim of a wheel. The inventors were Alexander T. Brown and George Stillman of Syracuse, New York (No. 488494). In 1907, the first U.S. scientist to receive the Nobel Prize was Albert Michelson, a German-born American physicist who received the Nobel Prize for Physics “for his optical precision instruments and the spectroscopic and metrological investigations.” Video for the Day Are we ready for neo-evolution? - Harvey Fineberg Medical ethicist Harvey Fineberg shows us three paths forward for the ever-evolving human species: to stop evolving completely, to evolve naturally -- or to control the next steps of human evolution, using genetic modification, to make ourselves smarter, faster, better. Neo-evolution is within our grasp. What will we do with it? Wiki for the Day Tree traversal: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tree_traversal Quote for the Day “I’m always doing things I can’t do. That’s how I get to do them.” Pablo Picasso Thanks & Regards, Team Campus Connect, Infosys Limited