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New Jersey Gov. Phil Murphy has asked for volunteers who know COBOL progamming language. “On our list of volunteers, not only do we need healthcare workers, we need engineers with COBOL skills,” Gov. Phil Murphy said in a statement. COBOL language skills are needed during these times to update various governmental records, including post-mortem data of the deceased, in the US. The State is using 40-plus year-old legacy systems that need programmers adept in using a decades-old computer language, created in 1959. In the last two weeks, unemployment claims filed in the US jumped to over 362,000, according to the Department of Labor. And these filings go into the legacy systems run on COBOL. The aging Common Business Oriented Language underpins much of the U.S. financial industry, according to a  Reuters  report. Roughly, 43% of banking systems are built on COBOL, and about 95% of ATM swipes rely on the 60-year-old language’s codes. The average age of a COBOL programmer in 50, an...

Normally there’s a whole lot o’ shakin’ going on. But during lockdown, not so much. Without humans and their mechanical devices stomping and rumbling across the planet, Earth’s surface has calmed down — and it’s showing up on seismology instruments everywhere. It’s a bonanza for researchers, giving them “a rare opportunity to study the modern world under some truly bizarre conditions,” The Atlantic reported, “and they’re scrambling to collect as much data as they can.”  It started with an observation in Brussels, where seismologist Thomas Lecocq, with the Royal Observatory of Belgium, noticed that vibrations due to human activity dropped by about a third after lockdown measures were imposed in an effort to curb the spread of coronavirus.  The university’s seismometer registered the drop after schools, restaurants and other public venues closed down, and nonessential travel halted, in the middle of last month, Lecocq told Nature.  The drop may be as steep as ...

Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) is a  novel  severe acute respiratory syndrome.  Coronavirus first isolated from three people with pneumonia connected to the  cluster  of acute respiratory illness cases in Wuhan.  All features of the novel SARS-CoV-2 virus occur in related coronaviruses in nature.Outside the human body, the virus is killed by household  soap , which bursts its protective bubble. SARS-CoV-2 is closely related to the original SARS-CoV.It is thought to have a  zoonotic  origin.  Genetic analysis has revealed that the coronavirus genetically clusters with the genus  Betacoronavirus , in subgenus  Sarbecovirus  (lineage B) together with two bat-derived strains. It is 96% identical at the whole  genome  level to other bat coronavirus samples (BatCov RaTG13).  In February 2020, Chinese researchers found that there is only one  amino acid  differenc...

Virus that changed the world.  Virus that bought the world to stand still. Virus that made world most developed nation to struggle. Virus that will reform the medical field in the world and the concept of Public health system. Virus that failed all predictions and algorithms Virus that made the socialising people of 21st century to follow social distancing. Virus that reminded all  human being, the need of self hygiene practices. Virus that forced families to spend time together and stay with the four walls of room to observe #Stayhome to stay safe. Virus that cleansed the pollute seas, rivers and atmosphere and bought the wild life back to normalcy. Virus that postponed the biggest event. Virus that human being stare at with no solution in the horizon. Virus that reformed the way we view religion and  religious practices and made us bond to the GOD for answers. Virus that is still roaming freely without a chain,  hoping the scientists  find a suitable lock to c...