Infosys Campus Connect Daily K10 : 2019/062

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Dear Professor, Greetings from Infosys Campus Connect Team!!! Free Courses 1.       Business English 2.       Business Communication 3.       Programming Fundamentals using Python 4.       OOP using Python 5.       Data Structures & Algorithms using Python 6.       Learning DBMS and SQL 7.       Big Data 8.       NoSQL Databases 9.       Artificial Intelligence 10.   Cloud Computing 11.   Cyber Security https://infytq.infosys.com 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 Google brings AMP-powered dynamic emails to Gmail Google is officially launching its so-called AMP for Email project into general availability today, allowing companies to give their emails a more engaging and interactive web-like experience. Sum-of-Three-Cubes Problem Solved for ‘Stubborn’ Number 33 A number theorist with programming prowess has found a solution to 33 = x³ + y³ + z³, a much-studied equation that went unsolved for 64 years. How Microsoft found a Huawei driver that opened systems to attack Monitoring systems were looking for attacks using technique popularized by the NSA. Programmer News for the Day Swift 5 Released! Swift 5 also introduces new capabilities that are building blocks for future versions, including a reimplementation of String, enforcement of exclusive access to memory during runtime, new data types, and support for dynamically callable types. What you should know about serverless computing before you start New data shows a pretty obvious trend: the acceleration of serverless adoption. Make sure you consider the pros and cons Python exceptions considered an anti-pattern What are exceptions? Judging by their name it is an entity representing some exceptional situation that happens inside your program. Word for the Day strife noun \ ˈstrīf  \ : bitter sometimes violent conflict or dissension in order to avoid family strife, the children spend equal time during the holidays with both of their grandmothers More Puzzle for the Day Anagram for the Day Chicken Puzzle A farmer was asked how many chickens they had sold at market that day. Their reply was: "I've had four customers today, and each bought half of my remaining chickens, plus a half chicken." The farmer sold all of their chickens at market that day. How many chickens did the farmer sell? Solution (Previous Puzzle): Many injured animals are invited to live at the 'Toronto Range'. Stop in kangaroo corner and marvel at the lovely creatures within. Dig over the potato patch to find small furry caterpillars, but don't yell! Owls can be found swooping for edible rodents, earwigs or perhaps bluebottles in the undergrowth. The brown bear, Rob, lacks grace and may look like an ogre, enter at your own risk! Peacocks can be found showing their colourful wares, which look fantastic when viewed with our ultraviolet torch. 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: Slain Slime Smash Solution (Previous): SIREN : RESIN, RINSE, RISEN SKIDS : DISKS SKILL : KILLS Innovation of the Day In 1807, Vesta 4, the only asteroid visible to the naked eye, thus the brightest on record, was first observed by the amateur astronomer Heinrich Wilhelm Olbers from Bremen. In 1956, Soviet scientists reported in the U.K. the development of a new form of electron microscope that enabled atoms to be seen for the first time.* In 1980, the first transplant of a human fingernail was accomplished on a 12-year-old boy's thumb, using one of his own toenails. Dr Guy Foutcher performed the surgery in Strasbourg, France Video for the Day Podcast for the Day Why do animals have such different lifespans? - Joao Pedro de Magalhaes For the microscopic lab worm C. elegans, life equates to just a few short weeks on Earth. The bowhead whale, on the other hand, can live over two hundred years. Why are these lifespans so different? And what does it really mean to ‘age' anyway? Joao Pedro de Magalhaes explains why the pace of aging varies greatly across animals. The Earth's core : BBC 6 Mins English Take a trip with Rob and Alice to find out about the Earth's core. They'll discuss how hot it is and what it's made of – and whether there are any dinosaurs living there! – as well as teaching some related vocabulary. Idiom for the Day alter ego a trusted adviser Over the years the secretary has become the alter ego of his boss. More Quote for the Day “You can’t use up creativity. The more you use, the more you have.” Maya Angelou Thanks & Regards, Team Campus Connect, Infosys Limited ReplyReply to allForward

Infosys Campus Connect Daily K10 : 2019/061

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Dear Professor, Greetings from Infosys Campus Connect Team!!! Free Courses 1.       Business English 2.       Business Communication 3.       Programming Fundamentals using Python 4.       OOP using Python 5.       Data Structures & Algorithms using Python 6.       Learning DBMS and SQL 7.       Big Data 8.       NoSQL Databases 9.       Artificial Intelligence 10.   Cloud Computing 11.   Cyber Security https://infytq.infosys.com 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 Hackers hijacked update server to install backdoors on ASUS machines The attackers distributed the malware to more than half a million computers. 61 percent of CISOs believe employees have leaked data maliciously A new study reveals that 79 percent of IT leaders believe that employees have put company data at risk accidentally in the last 12 months, and 61 percent believe they have done so maliciously. Humans compress images better than algorithms, experiment finds the products of human-powered image sharing proved more satisfactory than the algorithm's work. Programmer News for the Day The Ultimate List of Data Science Podcasts There are dozens of data science podcasts out there, covering everything from machine learning and artificial intelligence to big data analytics. Python Itertools: For a faster and memory efficient code The reason python stands out from many other languages is because of it’s simplicity and easy to work with, and the data science community has put the work in to create the plumbing it needs to solve complex computational problems and emphasizes productivity and readability. Try out walrus operator in Python 3.8 The first alpha of Python 3.8 was just released at February 3, 2019. With that comes a major new feature in the form of PEP 572, Assignment Expressions, implemented by the amazing Emily Morehouse, Python Core Developer and Founder, Director of Engineering at Cuttlesoft. Word for the Day plenitude noun plen· i· tude | \ ˈple-nə-ˌtüd  , -ˌtyüd\ : the quality or state of being full : COMPLETENESS She has gathered a plenitude of information on the topic. More Puzzle for the Day Anagram for the Day Find Color Puzzle Can you find the eleven hidden colours in the following paragraph: Many injured animals are invited to live at the 'Toronto Range'. Stop in kangaroo corner and marvel at the lovely creatures within. Dig over the potato patch to find small furry caterpillars, but don't yell! Owls can be found swooping for edible rodents, earwigs or perhaps bluebottles in the undergrowth. The brown bear, Rob, lacks grace and may look like an ogre, enter at your own risk! Peacocks can be found showing their colourful wares, which look fantastic when viewed with our ultraviolet torch. Solution (Previous Puzzle): # Owner   Wore  Colour 1 Alfred  3     red 2 Alice   2     green 3 Arthur  4     blue 4 Anne    1     yellow 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: Siren Skids Skill Solution (Previous): SHOUT : SOUTH SHRUB : BRUSH SINKS : SKINS Innovation of the Day In 1797, Nathaniel Briggs of New Hampshire received a patent for a washing machine. In 1866, the first hospital ambulance went into service. In 1905, the radio fax was patented in the U.S. by Cornelius Ehret of Rosemont, Pennsylvania. His device was called "a system for transmitting intelligence." Video for the Day Podcast for the Day Meet the tardigrade, the toughest animal on Earth - Thomas Boothby Without water, a human can only survive for about 100 hours. But there’s a creature so resilient that it can go without it for decades. This 1-millimeter animal can survive both the hottest and coldest environments on earth, and can even withstand high levels of radiation. Thomas Boothby introduces us to the tardigrade, one of the toughest creatures on Earth. The meaning of clothes : BBC 6 Mins English Do you dress formal or casual? Do you choose trendy items or old comfortable ones? Do we value tradition when deciding what to keep in our wardrobe? Rob and Will talk about the meaning of clothes. Listen to the conversation and learn some new words. Idiom for the Day give airs to be pretentious/showy Susan is a very smart girl but the fact that she gives herself airs about her job makes me like her a little less. More Quote for the Day “Yesterday is history. Tomorrow is mystery. Today is a gift.” Eleanor Roosevelt Thanks & Regards, Team Campus Connect, Infosys Limited ReplyReply to allForward