Infosys Campus Connect Daily Byte K10 : 2019/004

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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 Ethereum Plans to Cut Its Absurd Energy Consumption by 99 Percent The cryptocurrency is going on an energy diet to compete with more efficient blockchains Artificial intelligence can detect Alzheimer’s in brain scans six years before a diagnosis Artificial intelligence could one day change the lives of people facing an Alzheimer’s diagnosis, according to a new study by researchers at UC, San Francisco. Fixing photosynthesis by engineering it to recycle a toxic mistake The worst, most important enzyme often uses the wrong chemical. We fixed that. Programmer News for the Day Scratch 3.0 is here! With the introduction of Scratch 3.0 comes lots of exciting new features. There are dozens of new sprites, backgrounds, and sounds for you to play with. New year, new skills: learn how to code with Grasshopper in 2019 Grasshopper teaches adults to learn to code through fun puzzles and quizzes. Nomophobia: The word of the year has been crowned but chances are you’ve never heard it It describes a social condition many of us feel, but chances are you’ve never heard of the term that’s just been crowned Word of the Year. Word for the Day ramble verb ram· ble | \ˈram-bəl  \ : to move aimlessly from place to place She rambled for several minutes before introducing the main speaker. More Puzzle for the Day Anagram for the Day Guards Puzzle Below is a map of a detention facility. There are 9 guards, A-I, who are in charge of a particular number of cells. The guards only guard cells which they can see in a continuous straight line, either horizontally or vertically, and each cell is only protected by one guard. The numbers represent how many cells each guard is charge of, they are of course in charge of the cell they are currently in. Can you work out which guards are in charge of which cells. Solution (Previous Puzzle): Ten times. Try this with a watch or clock yourself! 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: Loin Looped Balms Solution (Previous): ARM : RAM FLOW : WOLF BALM : LAMB Innovation of the Day In 1863, four-wheeled roller skates were patented by James Plimpton of New York. In 1940, Edwin H. Armstrong demonstrated the first “network” relay of an FM radio broadcast through several stations from Yonkers, N.Y., via Alpine, N.J., Meriden, Conn., and Paxton, Mass. to Mount Washington. In 1958, the Russian Sputnik I satellite, the first man-made object to orbit the earth, fell back into the atmosphere and disintegrated, after 92 days in space. Video for the Day Podcast for the Day The networked beauty of forests - Suzanne Simard Deforestation causes more greenhouse gas emissions than all trains, planes and automobiles combined. What can we do to change this contributor to global warming? Suzanne Simard examines how the complex, symbiotic networks of our forests mimic our own neural and social networks -- and how those connections might make all the difference. Appealing to Consumers By Seth Godin Figure out if you’re selling a product that will appeal to early adopters, people who need it, or the masses on today’s episode of Seth Godin’s Startup School. This week Seth explains how Google makes billions through clickable ads, discusses the difference between making something cool versus making something that works, and talks about how a Thai place in Queens became one of the best run restaurants in New York. Idiom for the Day piece of cake it is used to say when something is very easy to do I love to draw the scenery for you, it will be a piece of cake. More Quote for the Day “A champion pays an extra price to be better than anyone else.” Paul “Bear” Bryant Thanks & Regards, Team Campus Connect, Infosys Limited