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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
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Just two teams of sophisticated cybercriminals appear to have been behind $1 billion worth of cryptocurrency thefts from online exchanges in recent years.
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Lasers have been used to send targeted, quiet messages to someone from several meters away, in a way that no one nearby would be able to hear.
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Imagine a world where smartphones, laptops, wearables, and other electronics are powered without batteries.
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Programmer News for the Day
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Apple has applied for a patent that appears to cover the whole idea of the Swift language.
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C++ modules are slated to be the biggest change in C++ since its inception. The design of modules has several essential goals in mind.
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There’s more to serverless than just functions. The coming year will see more projects and products that show us just how useful this new option can be across all of IT.
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Word for the Day
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wag verb
\ ˈwag \
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: to move to and fro or up and down especially with quick jerky motions
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The dog wagged its tail.
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Puzzle for the Day
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Anagram for the Day
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Socks Puzzle
On a dark and frosty morning, you awaken to find your light bulb has blown.
In getting dressed, you require a pair of socks.
In your drawer you know that you have 10 pairs of each colour, red, brown, and yellow, all mixed up.
How many socks do you have to take out of the drawer to ensure that you have a matched pair. The colour of which you can check in the bathroom?
Solution (Previous Puzzle):
BAND.
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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:
Sack
Salt
Pass
Solution (Previous):
REAP : PEAR, PARE
ROPE : PORE
ROSE : SORE
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Innovation of the Day
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In 1893, Thomas A. Edison was issued U.S. two patents. One was for the "Art of Generating Electricity" (No. 490,953). The other patent concerned the "Manufacture of Carbon Filaments for Electric Lamps" (No. 490,954).
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In 1961, the U.S. launched a 4-year-old male chimpanzee named Ham on a Mercury-Redstone 2 rocket into suborbital flight to test the capabilities of the Mercury capsule.
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In 1958, the United States entered the space age by launching the first successful orbiting satellite, Explorer-I, four months after the Soviet launch of Sputnik on 4 Oct 1957.
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Video for the Day
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Podcast for the Day
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If someone asked you where the mass of a tree comes from, what would you say? Have you ever really thought about it as you climbed through tree branches or walked through a forest? Is it the soil the plant is rooted in, the atmosphere above it, what do you think? Watch this lesson and find out more!
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How much sugar do you have a day? Rob and Neil talk about the recent recommendation by the World Health Organisation for people to reduce the amount of sugar they eat even more than previously advised. They say that it should account for 5% of the total energy we take from food – down from 10%. What do experts suggest to help people eat less sugar? Follow the discussion and learn some food-related vocabulary.
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Idiom for the Day
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paddle own canoe
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to be able to do something without help
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Students of kindergarten always need their teachers around they can’t just paddle their own canoe.
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Quote for the Day
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“You can get everything you want if you help enough others get what they want.”
Zig Ziglar
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Thanks & Regards,
Team Campus Connect,
Infosys Limited
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