Infosys Campus Connect Daily K10 : 2019/080

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Dear Professor, Greetings from Infosys Campus Connect Team!!! New Courses Launched 1.       Internet of Things 2.       Blockchain 3.       Speak Up 4.       Email Writing Skills 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 flips the switch on its next big money maker: Maps Google Maps is an indispensable part of life for more than 1 billion people, who use it to commute, explore new cities or find a hot new restaurant. Mozilla relaunches open source IoT platform Project Things as WebThings Project Things is graduating from its experimental phase with a new name — Mozilla WebThings — and gaining a number of logging, alarm, and networking features. Travel through wormholes is possible, but slow A Harvard physicist has shown that wormholes can exist: tunnels in curved space-time, connecting two distant places, through which travel is possible. Programmer News for the Day Refactoring Python Applications for Simplicity What the common issues in Python code that cause extra complexity are and how you can fix them Traditional Face Detection With Python To detect any object in an image, it is necessary to understand how images are represented inside a computer, and how that objects differs visually from any other object. Understanding Python slices Slices work on all sequences in Python. Which means that you can have a slice of a string, list, or tuple, and you’ll have the same effect? Word for the Day tedium noun te·​di·​um | \ ˈtē-dē-əm  \ : the quality or state of being tedious : TEDIOUSNESS The movie was three hours of tedium. More Puzzle for the Day Anagram for the Day Find the pair Puzzle Tew is to yrd, as... ...toh is to dloc, as... ...ni is to ==?== Solution (Previous Puzzle): Matthew is 3 and has two teddies. Paul is 1 and has one teddies. John is 4 and has three teddies. Darren is 2 and has four teddies. 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: Dashed Dealer Expect Solution (Previous): CAUSES : SAUCES COMICS : COSMIC COSMIC : COMICS Innovation of the Day In 1882, the photophone was demonstrated by Alexander Graham Bell and Charles Sumner Tainter. In 1882, American inventor, W.B. Purvis was issued a patent for a "Bag Fastener" (No. 256,856). In 1882, a perpetual motion machine was patented by John Sutliff in the U.S. (No. 257,103). Video for the Day Podcast for the Day A simple way to tell insects apart - Anika Hazra There are nearly a million known insect species in the world, but most have one of just five common types of mouthparts. Why is this information useful to scientists? Anika Hazra explains how the features of an insect’s mouthparts can help identify which order it belongs to, while also providing clues about how it evolved and what it feeds on. How would you like to pay? : BBC 6 Mins English Are the days of paying by cash for a latte or a newspaper nearly gone? Now you can pay via mobile phone, contactless cards, and even using your finger. Alice and Neil discuss Neil's fondness for loose change while teaching some related vocabulary. Idiom for the Day Achilles Heel Although it can refer to a physical weakness or limitation, this idiom can refer to any perceived weakness. It may also refer to someone who is successful, strong, or otherwise doing well, but which has on ‘fatal flaw’ or weakness which could bring about their failure or downfall. The team had an Achilles heel, their inexperienced outfielder. More Quote for the Day “It’s not so much how busy you are, but why you are busy. The bee is praised. The mosquito is swatted.” Mary Flannery O’Connor Thanks & Regards, Team Campus Connect, Infosys Limited