Daily Byte from Infosys Campus Connect : 2018/246

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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 New Tech Support Scam Causes Chrome Browser to Use 100% of the CPU A new tech support scam has been discovered that uses JavaScript to create a loop that ultimately causes Google Chrome to use up all of the CPU resources on the computer and freeze the browser. Report: ISS Hole Drilled From the Inside, Cosmonaut Says Russian cosmonaut Sergei Prokopyev said that the mysterious hole in a Soyuz capsule docked to the International Space Station was drilled from the inside, according to the Associated Press. Mars Express captures image of an icy crater on the surface of Mars The Mars Express Orbiter has captured images of a huge crater full of ice on the surface of Mars, just in time for the holiday season. Programmer News for the Day Ruby 2.6.0 released with a new JIT compiler Ruby 2.6.0 was released yesterday and brings a new JIT compiler. The new version also has the RubyVM::AbstractSyntaxTree module. Donald Knuth’s Christmas Tree Lecture on Dancing Links — and Organ Music For the last 24 years, computer science legend Donald Knuth has been delivering an annual Christmas lecture at Stanford University, where he’s a professor emeritus. A multi-value syntax tree filtering in Python The idea was to provide a small abstract syntax tree with an easy to write data structure that would be able to filter a value. Word for the Day apogee noun apo·​gee | \ˈa-pə-(ˌ)jē  \ : the farthest or highest point : CULMINATION shag carpeting reached the apogee of its popularity in the 1970s but is now considered outdated More Puzzle for the Day Odd man out Puzzle Which one of these sentences is the odd one out? David ushered cartooned kittens. Simon wanted another nail. Every artistic girl loves Easter. Badgers rarely eat any more. Will rabbits eat nettles? Can rare animals nobble elephants? Solution (Previous Puzzle): Start with the 1U which is on the 3rd row down and the 7th column across. Innovation of the Day In 1791, a U.S. patent for spinning cotton by water power was issued to William Pollard of Philadelphia. In 1872, the HMS Challenger made its first dredging operation, bringing up a sample of ocean-bottom mud from 1500 fathoms down, off Vigo, Spain. In 1913, Dr William David Coolidge patented (U.S. No. 1,082,933) a method for making ductile tunsten for the purpose of making filaments for electric lamps. Video for the Day Myths and misconceptions about evolution - Alex Gendler How does evolution really work? Actually, not how some of our common evolutionary metaphors would have us believe. For instance, it's species, not individual organisms, that adapt to produce evolution, and genes don't "want" to be passed on -- a gene can't want anything at all! Alex Gendler sets the record straight on the finer points of evolution. Wiki for the Day Kosaraju's algorithm: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kosaraju's_algorithm Quote for the Day “If you have no destination, you’ll never get there.” Harvey Mackay Thanks & Regards, Team Campus Connect, Infosys Limited