Infosys Campus Connect Daily K10 : 2019/027

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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 Chrome can tell you if your passwords have been compromised If your username and password were part of a hack, Password Checkup will let you know. Fire (and lots of it): Berkeley researcher on the only way to fix cryptocurrency Nicholas Weaver says bitcoin and other digital coins recapitulate 500 years of failure. People around the world report increased civility online, new Microsoft research shows People around the world and in the U.S., Germany, France and Belgium, in particular, are experiencing increased levels of online civility, data from a new Microsoft research study show. Programmer News for the Day Red Hat introduces first Kubernetes-native IDE Containers and Kubernetes are great, but they didn't have a native integrated development environment… until now. What’s Coming to Golang in 2019: Modules, Generics, Better Error-Handling Big changes are coming to the Go community in 2019. Why you should be using pathlib this article will inspire you to use Python’s pathlib module pretty much anytime you need to work with files in Python. Word for the Day wanton adjective wan· ton | \ ˈwȯn-tᵊn  , ˈwän-  \ : MERCILESS, INHUMANE The king did a wanton attack on the village More Puzzle for the Day Anagram for the Day Number Puzzle What number comes next in this sequence: 1 4 8 13 21 30 36   ? Solution (Previous Puzzle): 4 feet. If we consider the logs on their own for a moment, for each full turn, they will travel 2 feet (in relation to the floor). However, at the same time, the block on top will also travel 2 feet (in relation to the logs). For a total movement of 4 feet for the block on top. 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: Agree Eager Alloy Solution (Previous): WEDS : DEWS WEST : STEW, WETS WHEN : HEWN Innovation of the Day In 1802, Simon Willard, of Grafton, Massachusetts, patented his eight-day “Improved Timepiece,” a wall clock that came to be known as the “banjo clock.” In 1865, Gregor Mendel, aged 42, who first discovered the laws of genetics, read his first scientific paper to the Brünn Society for the study of Natural Sciences in Moravia (published 1866). In 1898, the first envelope folding and gumming machine recieved patent No. 598,716. John Ames Sherman of Worcester, Mass., had designed a "mechanism for folding and sealing envelopes Video for the Day Podcast for the Day Why wildfires are necessary - Jim Schulz Our early ancestors relied on lightning to cause forest fires, from which they could collect coals and burning sticks to help them cook food and clear land. Yet, it wasn’t just humans who benefited from these natural phenomena. Even as they destroyed trees, fires also helped the forests themselves. Jim Schulz outlines the benefits of wildfire. The Christmas Truce : BBC 6 Mins English Rob and Finn talk about an extraordinary event on Christmas Day which happened one hundred years ago. English and German soldiers fighting each other during World War One left their positions to sing together and play football. Listen to the conversation and learn some new vocabulary. Idiom for the Day bucket list a list of achievements or experiences someone wants to have during their lifetime John is an adventurous guy; he is planning a long trip according to his bucket list. More Quote for the Day “Happiness is not by chance, but by choice.” Jim Rohn Thanks & Regards, Team Campus Connect, Infosys Limited