While Amazon Alexa has been an innovative leader among digital assistants, the Alexa division at Amazon has been posting terrible losses recently. In the first quarter of 2022, the hardware division lost more than $3 billion and the largest part of that is attributable to Alexa being unprofitable. With sweeping layoffs hitting the unit responsible for Alexa, it could forecast the end of the popular digital assistant. Read full article here
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Improving media literacy could boost trust towards the news, IMPRESS report suggests
The UK media is regulated by the likes of IPSO and Ofcom. The report by press regulator IMPRESS highlights the link between low levels of media literacy and trust in the news. The study found that three quarters of those who did not know if journalists were regulated did not trust the news. It suggests that improving media literacy is one way to stem the erosion of trust, and shows that audiences have an appetite for information on news processes. Stakeholders need to collaborate in order to rebuild trust in the news, and independent media is well placed to do this. Read full article here
Merv
February 1, 2023
