Indian Engineers Are Bad: They Deserve To Be Fired

With the advancement in digital services and products, good programmers are the constant requirement of industry. Companies require candidates with strong understanding of computer programming and algorithm to implement on new innovative ideas in a time constraint workplace.

Unfortunately, we found out that out of the two problems given per candidate, only 14 percent engineers are able to write compliable codes for both and only 22 percent write compliable code for exactly one problem. To sustain the growth of information technology (IT) industry, we need candidates with high technology caliber and better programming skills.

Engineers show larger skill gap in Programming Practices and Programming Ability abilities. Programming Practices is the ability to code in readable and maintainable fashion and Programming Ability is the ability to code in most optimized way.

These two are the major areas of differences when compared across various demographics such as gender, tier of colleges, and top 100 colleges. There is a need to put emphasis on improving the code quality.

Programming Skills: Gender Comparison

The table unveils that males have better programming skills than females and only 25 percent of females are able to write a compatible code and less than 1 percent can write logically and functionally correct code.

Functionally correct code is the basic requisite of a good programmer. However, to enhance the quality of the code, few more important indicators have emerged - efficiency, time complexity and space complexity.

The key reason behind such paltry employability percentages is deficient skills to apply basic programming and algorithm principles. These concept and principles are there in college curriculum, which indicates that there is a gap in implementation.

Hence, these industries shall have a very hard time in hiring students for their organization who are able to fit in the criteria and yield required results.

Comparison Of Top 100 Colleges Versus Rest

The score trend matches the general perception that candidates from top 100 colleges generally possess superior programming skills than any other college. As observed previously, programming ability is the evident differentiating subsection.

In the last few years, thanks to jobs becoming global, the importance of good programmers has increased manifold. It has over the years become an important criterion of hiring for most of the IT software companies, both at the international and intra-national levels.

A candidate with good programming skills is so important, because there are cases where one doesn't understand the program statement and if does then fails to implement it properly.

The report tries to identify patterns in employability across different regions, analyzing in detail the distribution of employability across various roles.

Google will now pay you for finding bug in Android

New York: Days after a malware called "Judy" hit over 36.5 million Android-based phones, Google has now increased the bounty for finding a bug in Android OS to as much as $2,00,000, a media report has said.

According to cyber security firm Check Point, dozens of malicious apps were downloaded between 4.5 million to 18.5 million times from the Play Store. Some of the malware-affected apps have been discovered residing on the online store for several years.

"Judy" is one such case of how an open and free mobile operating system (OS) can be exploited by malicious app developers.

Most security flaws we hear about now affect old builds of the OS or require clever social engineering to get the user to weaken device security, technology website extremetech.com reported on Friday.

The versions of Android being released now are more secure than what Google was putting out years ago and as a result no one has managed to claim Google's largest bug bounties for Android.

Hoping to attract more researchers and engineers to the bug bounty programme, the company has increased the rewards to up to $2,00,000.

Google started the bug bounty programme for Android about two years ago in which the security researchers, who demonstrate an exploit, get a cash prize -- the amount of which varies based on the severity of the hack.

Then, Google gets to fix the bug and avoid future security issues. Still, no one has submitted a working exploit for Android's core components, even when such an exploit is worth $30,000-$50,000, the report said.

Shocking..36500000 Android phones hacked, check yours immediately!

New Delhi: As the world was still recovering from the "WannaCrypt" ransomware attack, a malware called "Judy" hit over 36.5 million Android-based phones, making its way through Google Play Store.

According to cyber security firm Check Point, dozens of malicious apps have been downloaded between 4.5 million to 18.5 million times. Some of the malware-affected apps have been discovered residing on Google Play for several years.

"Judy" is one such case of how an open and free mobile operating system (OS) can be exploited by malicious app developers.

"The entire ecosystem of free mobile OS is built around generating advertising revenues, and the operating systems grants apps with certain privileges to display these ads," Amit Jaju, Executive Director, Fraud Investigation and Dispute Services, EY India, said in a statement.

According to Jaju, they noticed certain Indian apps with a potentially malicious code when displaying ads.

"Therefore, users should review all installed apps to have proper security settings and tools in place. One should avoid installing free apps and those from unknown sources," he suggested.

After the malware-affected apps were discovered by Check Point, Google removed them from the Play Store.

The malicious apps primarily included a series of casual cooking and fashion games under the "Judy" brand, a name borrowed for the malware itself.

"Judy" is an auto-clicking adware which was found on 41 apps developed by a Korean company that uses infected devices to generate large amounts of fraudulent clicks on advertisements, generating revenues for the perpetrators behind it.

The nefarious nature of the programmes went unnoticed in large part because its malware payload was downloaded from a non-Google server after the programmes were installed.

The code would then use the infected phone to click on Google ads, generating fraudulent revenue for the attacker.

It is unclear how long the malicious code existed inside the apps, hence the actual spread of the malware remains unknown.

Previously, Android-based devices were hit by similar malwares like "FalseGuide" and "Skinner" that also infiltrated through Google Play.

Immediately remove these Apps from your Phone as they are spreading malware

Google Play Store has become an easy way to spread malware from the backend. Google has been aware of this problem, and this is the reason why its security team always keep an eye on such apps that can harm your mobile phones, steal your information, and much more. Recently Google has removed some apps from its Play Store. These apps are found spreading malware in cell phones. Once this app is installed, it opens a web page in the background that you never come to know about. This way, it sucks your mobile data while fulfilling its aim.

The main aim of opening a web page in the background is getting clicks on the advertisements. For each click, the app makers are paid some amount by the advertisers. So, by using your mobile data without your permissions, the makers of these malicious apps are making money. So, you should remove these apps now.

Who have identified these malicious apps?

Check Point Experts have named this malware Judy, and it has so far affected 36.5 million Google Play users. Yes, Check Point is the security company that has noticed Judy malware.
Here is a list of the apps you should immediately remove from your mobile phone if installed:

Animal Judy: Persian cat care
Animal Judy: Cat care
Animal Judy: Dragon care
Animal Judy: Teddy Bear care
Animal Judy: Rabbit care
Animal Judy: Feral Cat care
Animal Judy: Sea otter care
Animal Judy: Elephant care
Animal Judy: Rudolph care
Animal Judy: Nine-Tailed Fox
Animal Judy: Fennec Fox care
Animal Judy: Dog care
Chef Judy: Halloween Cookies
Chef Judy: Jelly Maker – Cook
Chef Judy: Chicken Maker
Chef Judy: Hotdog Maker – Cook
Chef Judy: Birthday Food Maker
Chef Judy: Dalgona Maker
Chef Judy: ServiceStation Food
Chef Judy: Triangular Kimbap
Chef Judy: Character Lunch
Chef Judy: Picnic Lunch Maker
Chef Judy: Udong Maker – Cook
Fashion Judy: Halloween style
Fashion Judy: EXO Style
Fashion Judy: Couple Style
Fashion Judy: Wedding day
Fashion Judy: Waitress style
Fashion Judy: Twice Style
Fashion Judy: Myth Style
Fashion Judy: Pretty rapper
Fashion Judy: Uniform style
Fashion Judy: Bunny Girl Style
Fashion Judy: Frozen Princess
Fashion Judy: Wedding Party
Fashion Judy: Teacher style
Fashion Judy: Country style
Fashion Judy: Vampire style
Judy’s Happy House
Judy’s Hospital: Paediatrics
Judy’s Spa Salon
Fashion Judy: Snow Queen style

Artificial Intelligence can predict your death

Researchers at the University of Adelaide, Australia, have developed an AI (Artificial Intelligence) software which can predict how long a person will live pretty accurately after analyzing photos of person's organs. The study is the first of its kind where the AI entirely relies on clinical imaginary for calculations.

NASA Set to Launch First Ever Mission to Study Neutron Stars

NASA is set to launch the world's first mission tomorrow to study rapidly spinning neutron stars - the densest objects in the universe - nearly 50 years after they were discovered.

The same platform will also carry out the world's first demonstration of X-ray navigation in space.

The agency plans to launch the two-in-one Neutron Star Interior Composition Explorer (NICER) aboard SpaceX CRS-11, a cargo resupply mission to the International Space Station (ISS) to be launched aboard a Falcon 9 rocket on Saturday.

The launch was earlier planned for June 1, but was delayed due to poor weather.

About a week after its installation, this one-of-a-kind investigation will begin observing neutron stars, the densest objects in the universe.

The mission will focus especially on pulsars - those neutron stars that appear to wink on and off because their spin sweeps beams of radiation past us, like a cosmic lighthouse.

Due to their extreme nature, neutron stars and pulsars have engendered a great deal of interest since their existence was proposed in 1939 and then discovered in 1967.

These objects are the remnants of massive stars that, after exhausting their nuclear fuel, exploded and collapsed into super-dense spheres.

Their intense gravity crushes an astonishing amount of matter - often more than 1.4 times the content of the Sun or at least 460,000 Earths - into city-sized orbs, creating stable, yet incredibly dense matter not seen anywhere else in the universe.

Just one teaspoonful of neutron star matter would weigh a billion tonnes on Earth.

"The nature of matter under these conditions is a decades-old unsolved problem," said Keith Gendreau, a scientist at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Centre in the US.

"Theory has advanced a host of models to describe the physics governing the interiors of neutron stars. With NICER, we can finally test these theories with precise observations," said Gendreau.

Although neutron stars emit radiation across the spectrum, observing them in the energetic X-ray band offers the greatest insights into their structure and the high-energy phenomena that they host, including starquakes, thermonuclear explosions and the most powerful magnetic fields known in the cosmos.

During its 18-month mission, NICER will collect X-rays generated from the stars' tremendously strong magnetic fields and from hotspots located at their two magnetic poles.

At these locations, the objects' intense magnetic fields emerge from their surfaces and particles trapped within these fields rain down and generate X-rays when they strike the stars' surfaces.

In pulsars, these flowing particles emit powerful beams of radiation from the vicinity of the magnetic poles.

On Earth these beams of radiation are observed as flashes of radiation ranging from seconds to milliseconds depending on how fast the pulsar rotates.

Since these pulsations are predictable, they can be used as celestial clocks, providing high-precision timing, like the atomic-clock signals supplied through the Global Positioning System (GPS).

Although ubiquitous on Earth, GPS signals weaken the farther one travels out beyond Earth orbit. Pulsars, however, are accessible virtually everywhere in space, making them a valuable navigational solution for deep-space exploration

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Neutron stars are created when giant stars die in supernovas and their cores collapse, with the protons and electrons essentially melting into each other to form neutrons. Credit: NASA/Dana Berry. Neutron stars are city-size stellar objects with a mass about 1.4 times that of the sun.

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