DSC-JGI — Weekly Digest #007

Ample opportunities and a burrow of all the latest trends in this technology-driven world. DSC — JGI’s weekly digest #007 is an excellent way to find out what’s happening around the globe in a hassle-free way.

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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:

• HCL hiring freshers for Product software Engineer Profile. — Read More
• Job Opportunity at Dell as a fresher for Software Engineering Profile. — Read More
• IBM hiring graduates for Software Engineering profiles. — Read More
• Amazon openings for the post of Cloud Support Associate Engineers for freshers. — 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:

• Qualcomm’s new Snapdragon 888 promises faster speeds, better cameras, and more powerful AI:

Qualcomm teased the Snapdragon 888, its latest 5G-equipped flagship smartphone processor, on the first day of its Snapdragon Tech Summit. But at the day two keynote, the company provided all of the details on the new chipset, which will be the brains powering almost every major 2021 Android flagship. — Read More

• Elon Musk Is “Fairly Confident” That Humans Will Land on Mars in the Next Six Years:

SpaceX has been working on its flagship rocket, the Big Falcon, also known as the Starship for quite a while now. Apart from developing an entire army of satellites to deliver high-speed internet connection, Elon Musk’s SpaceX is also working hard to send humans to Mars. — Read More

• Google Photos Brings New HDR Filter, ML-Based Suggestions for Pixel Users:

Google Pixel phones are getting new machine learning-based filters in Google Photos as part of the December feature drop. Back in September, Google had revamped the editing suite in Google Photos and introduced a tab called Suggestions that offered ML-based filters to edit the pictures natively. Among the new suggestion is a Dynamic filter, which is said to enhance brightness, contrast, and color for better sunset and sunrise images. — Read More

• Cortana can now find and open files on the latest Windows 10 Insider Build:

Microsoft has released a new Windows 10 Insider Preview build for those in the Dev Channel. With the latest Insider Preview build, Windows 10 users can now instruct Cortana to search for and open files. The new Cortana skill is said to make it easier for users to search through folders to find a file.

• IIT Professor Creates Fuel Additives To Make Rockets Fly Better, Carry More Cargo:

IIT Gandhinagar has developed an additive that when mixed with rocket fuel, boosts overall output while also reducing the weight, which will help in carrying more cargo into space. In their experiments, the team saw that adding just one weight percent of the additives in the form of actuated magnesium bromide nanosheets boosted the energy output by 80 percent. — 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:

• Tech makes it possible to digitally communicate through human touch:

Researchers have developed the first technology capable of sending digital information, such as a photo or password, by touching a surface with your finger. — Read More

• Cooling electronics efficiently with graphene-enhanced heat pipes:

Researchers have found that graphene-based heat pipes can help solve the problems of cooling electronics and power systems used in avionics, data centers, and other power electronics. — Read More

• Trickbot trojan found to now have the ability to modify a computer’s UEFI:

A combined team of security experts from Advanced Intelligence and Eclypsium has announced that the Trickbot trojan malware now has the ability to modify a computer’s Unified Extensible Firmware Interface — the interface. — Read More

• China Stakes Its Claim to Quantum Supremacy:

Google trumpeted its quantum computer that outperformed a conventional supercomputer. A Chinese group says it’s done the same, with different technology. — Read More

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