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  (CNN) Students are returning to college campuses across the US, and several universities are already detecting   cases of coronavirus   that have led to quarantines and a return to remote learning in at least two cases. The University of Notre Dame in Indiana announced Tuesday that undergraduates would be learning remotely for the next two weeks after a spike in Covid-19 cases since students returned to campus on August 3. As of Thursday, 304 students had tested positive, according to the school's online health dashboard. "The objective of these temporary restrictions is to contain the spread of the virus so that we can get back to in person instruction," Notre Dame President Rev. John I. Jenkins said. North Carolina State University will move all undergraduates to online only learning starting Monday after parties caused clusters of cases, Chancellor Randy Woodson  said in a letter  posted on the university's website. Boston University is reporting 16 positiv...

Xilinx Developer Forum, California: The first products in the adaptive compute acceleration platforms (ACAPs) which was outlined earlier this year, have been unveiled.                                                                                                                                                Versal AI and Versal Prime were introduced at the Developer Forum in response to the need for heterogeneous computing to process the volumes of data in use today. “Versal is a disruptive technology,” said Kirk Saban, Senior Director, Product and Technical Marketing, at  Xilinx  at a pre-briefing. “No o...

Touch became the last iPod standing on Thursday as Apple removed nano and shuffle stand-alone digital music players from its lineup. Late Apple co-founder Steve Jobs introduced the devices some 12 years ago with his legendary showmanship flare, and the small, easy to operate players helped the company revolutionize how music was sold. Apple confirmed to AFP that it is no longer selling nano and shuffle, and the MP3 players vanished from the Apple website. “Today, we are simplifying our iPod lineup with two models of iPod touch now with double the capacity starting at just $199 and we are discontinuing the iPod shuffle and iPod nano,” the company said in an email. Industry trackers and California-based Apple itself have long acknowledged that the do-it-all iPhone would eat away at sales of one-trick devices such as iPod MP3 players, so the farewell was met more with nostalgia than surprise. The trend toward streaming music services, including the launch of one by Apple, h...

Google stated, notwithstanding, that it was not endeavoring to copy Facebook Inc.  Google on Wednesday declared a redesign of its pursuit application on cell phones to incorporate a customized nourish of connections about leisure activities, travel, sports and different themes, a move that puts the inquiry organization into more straightforward rivalry with interpersonal organizations, for example, Facebook.  Google, the world's biggest web index and a unit of Alphabet Inc, said the progressions would start taking off in the United States on Wednesday and different nations in the coming weeks.  The new offering is called "Google Feed," a name that may summon correlations with Facebook's "News Feed," an element on Facebook used to peruse refreshes from companions, family and different sources.  Google stated, be that as it may, that it was not attempting to copy Facebook Inc, the world's biggest informal organization. Rather, the organization...

Facebook is winning the race to convey Snapchat's Stories organization to whatever is left of the world before its originator. WhatsApp Status, its form of Snapchat Stories, now has 250 million day by day dynamic clients. That is in spite of it being consigned to an auxiliary committed tab in the application, restricted to being up front on the home screen like Instagram Stories which additionally now has more than 250 million clients. Snapchat by correlation just has 166 million every day clients of its whole application. That incorporate Snapchat's private informing highlight that advantages from "Streaks" which utilizes gamification and emoji identifications to boost companions to send no less than one Snap forward and backward every day. All that engagement with Stories, voice and sound calls, and its center of content informing has driven WhatsApp to 1 billion aggregate every day clients and 1.3 billion month to month clients. That implies a strikin...

When it comes to job security, the TV news business these days is about as stable as the San Andreas Fault. If you are between 45-50 years of age, you’re walking around with a big bulls-eye on your back. You probably cost the network too much in salary and benefits (if you even have those) and you complain too much about hopping on the next plane to the breaking story that will blow out your weekend beach plans.  So it should come as no surprise that our firm, a collection of TV news alumni, has received a flood of calls recently from network TV producers looking to transition to the world of communications coaching.  If they have someone advocating on their behalf, that can help. When that go-between is a friend or a valued client of ours, then it really helps. In those situations I do everything possible to find time to set up an in-person or phone meeting. Sometimes the candidates are up front about their desire to join our firm, and sometimes th...