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AI and data analytics industry will be bracing for the fierce global recession impact Recession is scary. People generally relate this condition or term to mass layoffs, hiring freezes, and other impending global and economic downturns. Earlier in 2020, the global pandemic hit the economy quite hard, which initially led to an economic recession. Thousands of people lost their means to a living, and several others kept dreading the same would happen to them. Several large-scale and small-scale businesses had to…

Do we really want to put the power of perfectly simulating a voice in the hands of stalkers and abusers? Getty ImagesLast week, we ran a news article entitled, "Amazon's Alexa reads a story in the voice of a child's deceased grandma." In it, ZDNet's Stephanie Condon discussed an Amazon presentation at its re:MARS conference (Amazon's annual confab on topics like machine learning, automation, robotics, and space). In the presentation, Amazon's Alexa AI Senior VP Rohit Prasad showed a clip of a young boy asking an…

Here’s how you can protect your PC from ML-assisted side-channel attacks Malicious agents can use machine learning to launch powerful attacks that steal information in ways that are tough to prevent and often even more difficult to study. Attackers can capture data that “leaks” between software programs running on the same computer. They then use machine-learning algorithms to decode those signals, which enables them to obtain passwords or other private information. These are called side-channel attacks because…

Even before a leaked Supreme Court opinion threw the future of abortion in the United States into turmoil, major corporations were adding a new benefit for their employees: coverage for abortion and other medical travel. The latest company to add the benefit was Amazon, which announced earlier this week that it will cover travel costs for employees who have to travel out of state for abortions or other medical procedures. This could make it possible for workers living in states that make abortion illegal to still get…