DSC-JGI — Weekly Digest #006

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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:

• Swiggy job opportunity to work as a Software Engineer 1 for Freshers at Bangalore Office. (Job) — Read More
• Software Engineering Developer opportunity for freshers at Nokia, Apply Now. — Read More
• Internship opportunity at Synopsys for SDE roles at Noida office. — Read More
• Goibibo is hiring freshers for Software Engineering roles as a full-time opportunity. — 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:

• Google Pay is killing its web app, adds transfer fee in the US:

Google launched a revamped Google Pay a few days ago. While it introduced many new features, it has discontinued one of its most important features. Now users will not be able to transfer and receive funds on the web app of Google Pay from January 2021. Earlier, users could make payments using the Google Pay app on the phone as well as the web app. — Read More

• iFixit teardown shows just how similar the new M1 MacBooks are:

iFixit has gotten its hands on Apple’s new M1-powered MacBook Air and MacBook Pro, which of course is to say that its team has torn the laptops apart to find out what’s inside. And, while the Air and the Pro have set groundbreaking new standards for performance and efficiency, it turns out that this can be attributed almost entirely to the M1 chip rather than any particular design changes. — Read More

• Facebook, Google to Face New Antitrust Suits in the U.S.:

Big Tech’s legal woes are expected to worsen in the coming weeks as federal and state antitrust authorities prepare to file new lawsuits against Facebook Inc. and Alphabet Inc.’s Google, people familiar with the matter said. — Read More

• Tesla could widen the release of ‘self-driving’ software in two weeks:

Tesla Inc Chief Executive Officer Elon Musk said on Friday there will probably be a wider roll-out of a new “Full Self Driving” software update in two weeks. “Probably going to a wider beta in 2 weeks,” Musk said on Twitter, in a reply to a user asking if the software would be available in Minnesota. — 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:

• Google’s AI taps into the minds of the great poets:

I need about one hundred fifty drafts of a poem to get it right, and fifty more to make it sound spontaneous.” So said the 1966 U.S. Poet Laureate James Dickey. — Read More

• Computer-aided creativity in robot design:

RoboGrammar is a new system that automates and optimizes robot design. The system creates arthropod-inspired robots for traversing a variety of terrains. It could spawn more inventive robot forms with enhanced functionality. — Read More

• AI system finds, moves items in constricted regions:

Artificial intelligence is being applied to virtually every aspect of our work and recreational lives. From determining calculations for the construction of towering skyscrapers to designing and building cruise ships — Read More

• MIT’s New Center to Advance Predictive Simulation Research Will Focus on Exascale Simulation of Materials in Hypersonic Flow Environments:

Understanding the degradation of materials in extreme environments is a scientific problem with major technological applications, ranging from spaceflight to industrial and nuclear safety. Yet it presents an intrinsic challenge: Researchers cannot easily reproduce these environments in the laboratory or observe essential degradation processes in real-time. Computational modeling and simulation have consequently become indispensable tools in helping to predict the behavior of complex materials across a range of strenuous conditions. — Read More

• Using artificial intelligence to help drones find people lost in the woods:

A trio of researchers at Johannes Kepler University has used artificial intelligence to improve thermal imaging camera searches of people lost in the woods. In their paper published in the journal Nature Machine Intelligence, … — Read More

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