We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Phones, laptops and other telecom devices serve as essential bridges that connect the world. However, the telecom industry is also exposed to several ongoing threats and vulnerabilities, as malicious actors continue to advance with more sophistication and even innovation. The Truecaller Insights 2021 U.S. Spam and Scam Report estimates a staggering $29.8 billion was lost to phone scams in the United States in 2020 alone. Steven Wilson, head of Europol's European Cybercrime Center (EC3), said in a report that financially motivated cybercriminals will always find ways to exploit new and existing business processes and technologies.

A machine learning engineer (MLE) is a key part of a team working for a business that wants to benefit from machine learning and artificial intelligence functionality. In general, these professionals are the guardians of some of the most powerful technologies around. Let's look at more on what MLEs do from machine learning professionals in the tech field who spoke to us about what it means to fill one of these job roles. Join nearly 200,000 subscribers who receive actionable tech insights from Techopedia. At a very basic level, a machine learning engineers has to understand the nuts and bolts of how these projects get put together, and how they get shepherded toward completion.

In the Editorial, Editor-in-Chief Tom Baranowski, PhD, Professor of Pediatrics, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX, identifies many lessons that can be learned from the success of the popular AVG Pokémon Go(tm), in which players can log hours of walking as they physically chase the animated Pokémon creatures based on video images displayed on their smart phones. Dr. Baranowski encourages researchers to conduct well-designed studies to assess the health effects of AVGs. Game developers could then use this information to create new games that would be both fun to play and promote beneficial physical activity. "Pokémon Go(tm) stimulated substantial amounts of physical activity in many likely-otherwise sedentary game players without intending to! We might call this stealth exergame programming, and we have a lot to learn about how to achieve this!" says Dr. Baranowski.