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Tuesday, April 23, 2024
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Topic: Alexa

Amazon gives option to disable human review of Alexa recordings

Matt Day -
The new policy allows Amazon customers to opt out of human review of their voice recordings amid criticism it violated customers’ privacy.

Amazon is being sued for allegedly using voice software pioneer’s technology in Alexa

Matt Day -
A complaint said Alexa and Echo were strikingly similar to the patented technology that voice software developer VoiceBox Technologies showed Amazon in 2011.

Siri, Cortana, Alexa: Why our AIs have personalities and a female voice

James Vlahos -
Conversation designers widely report that people flirt with, sexually proposition, and even harass bots.

Is Alexa always listening? New Amazon patent seems to suggest so

Stephen L. Carter -
An Alexa that’s always listening will likely prove more useful than an Alexa that isn’t. And, in any case, always-on devices are certainly our future.

Amazon to let Alexa users delete voice commands in privacy push

Matt Day -
A set of updates offers users the ability to say ‘Alexa, delete everything I said today’, or, in a coming update, delete their most recent utterance.

Amazon’s Alexa reviewers can access home addresses of customers

Matt Day -
Amazon says access is highly controlled, regularly audited and it has a zero tolerance policy for abuse of such internal tools & systems.

The Brexit black hole, and eavesdropper Alexa

Achyut Mishra -
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Thousands of Amazon workers are listening to what you tell Alexa

Matt Day -
Amazon's team comprises employees under non-disclosure contracts working in outposts like Boston, Costa Rica, India and Romania and processing as many as 1,000 audio clips per shift.

Siri and Alexa are helping the world become a more literate place

Christopher Cannon -
Lessons from history tell us literacy has always emerged from oral traditions.
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Opinion

Pakistan finance minister should learn from Manmohan Singh and engineer an economic revival

F.S Aijazuddin -
Muhammad Aurangzeb has been clamped with more manacles than he has wrists. His immediate task is to negotiate a new loan programme with the IMF.

Iran and Israel don’t have free will to start a war. It’s contingent on geopolitics

Rajeev Chandrashekhar is modern, moderate. But tragically loyal to bigoted BJP

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Economy

Economists vs statisticians — the battle being fought over the soul of India’s GDP data

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Economists say there are weaknesses in India’s GDP data. But statisticians claim the accusations are based on flawed understanding, saying while GDP has problems, the economists are looking in the wrong places.

Defence

‘No brides for Agniveers’: In Rajasthan’s ‘Shaheedon ki nagri’, few takers for defence coaching centres

Sushil Manav -
Coaching centres for Army aspirants in Jhunjhunu are shutting down due to plummeting admissions in the face of a lack of job guarantees under Agnipath Scheme.

National Interest

These 6 states are key for Modi’s ‘400 paar’ target. They’re also where Opposition can stop him

Shekhar Gupta -
While this contest looks so predictable in large swathes of our political landscape, it is also more keenly contested than 2019 in some states.

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