DSC-JGI — Weekly Digest #005

Here we are back again with our weekly digest #005 providing you the insights into what new stuff is happening around you.

Continue to read ahead and fill up your knowledge hunger with this list of cool articles by DSC-JGI.

Placements and recruitments

Here’s a little something for you, we have assembled a lineup of some of the leading companies in the market with an ongoing hiring process for the freshers:

• Zeta India hiring 2021 graduates for a Software Engineer role as an Intern. (Internship & Job) — Read More
• Mphasis published job link for hiring Freshers/ Experienced (0 to 2 years) as Technical Support Engineer Profile @ Bangalore. (Job) — Read More
• Wipro Job Openings for Freshers as Trainee @ Across India. (Job)— Read More
• Microsoft hiring for Cyber Security Analyst for Hyderabad office. (Job) — Read More

Technical

The world as we know it is changing at a rapid pace. Here are some of the trending topics on emerging technologies from the last week:

• PUBG Mobile India pre-registrations now live:

PUBG Corporation is currently underway to relaunch its PUBG Mobile game in India after the recent ban. It has announced that the game will soon be making a comeback with a local twist to it, and will be called PUBG Mobile India. The company has not announced when the game will be made available to Indian players. — Read More

• Microsoft Teams for personal use rolls out to the web and desktop with 24-hour calling:

Microsoft Teams for personal use is now available on desktop and the web. The availability comes at a great time because Teams includes several features that will make it easier to stay in touch with your family and friends over the holidays. Teams for personal use rolled out to iOS and Android devices earlier this year, so it’s now available on all major platforms. Teams for personal use is in preview on all platforms at the moment but still includes several useful features and seems to work well. — Read More

• Google extends Chrome support for Windows 7 to help with Windows 10 migrations:

Google’s support of Chrome on Windows 7 will now last until at least January 15, 2022. Support was previously set to end on July 15, 2021, but Google extended support to help organizations migrating to Windows 10. With extended support, the browser will receive security updates and other benefits, such as enterprise capabilities, for over a year. — Read More

• Twitter will now warn users when they try to like a misleading tweet:

Twitter has become increasingly aggressive against fake news and misleading content. During the U.S. elections this year, the social network introduced some new labels for tweets with misleading content and also a warning for those trying to retweet labeled tweets. As of today, users will also see alerts when they like a tweet labeled with false or misleading information. — Read More

• M1 Macs can now run Windows apps and games through CrossOver 20:

We already know that the new Macs with M1 chip can run both Intel and ARM apps made for macOS and iOS, but Mac users who rely on Windows for some specific software have lost Boot Camp support. However, CodeWeavers announced that CrossOver 20 now works on Apple Silicon Macs, which means that the new M1 Macs can run Windows software right on macOS. — Read More

Computer Science

To help you stay updated with new developments in the field of computer science. Here are some of the popular headlines from the last week:

• World’s smallest atom-memory unit created:

Faster, smaller, smarter, and more energy-efficient chips for everything from consumer electronics to big data to brain-inspired computing could soon be on the way after engineers created the smallest memory device yet. — Read More

• Showing robots how to drive a car…in just a few easy lessons:

Researchers have designed a system that lets robots autonomously learn complicated tasks from a very small number of demonstrations — even imperfect ones. While current state-of-art methods need at least 100 demonstrations to nail a specific task, this new method allows robots to learn from only a handful of demonstrations. — Read More

• The new test reveals AI still lacks common sense:

Natural language processing (NLP) has taken great strides recently — but how much does AI understand of what it reads? Less than we thought, it seems. Despite advances, AI still doesn’t have the common sense needed to generate plausible sentences. — Read More

• Could your vacuum be listening to you?

A team of researchers demonstrated that popular robotic household vacuum cleaners can be remotely hacked to act as microphones. — Read More

• Software developed to help programmers prototype graphic user interfaces:

A new artificial intelligence (AI) system has been developed to help ordinary untrained people to design and create applications and software for smartphones and personal computers. With the help of this system, non-designers. — Read More

• Vision-based fire detection facilities work better under a new deep learning model:

Fast and accurate fire detection is significant to the sustainable development of human society and Earth ecology. The existence of objects with similar characteristics to fire increases the difficulty of vision-based fire detection. Improving the accuracy of fire detection by digging deeper visual features of fire always remains challenging. — Read More

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