Esther gives a short briefing on the AILIA conference she attended in Ottawa last week. The two discuss how the ongoing economic disruptions caused by the coronavirus are impacting the language industry and freelance linguists. They review the ranking of the fastest growing language service providers of 2019 and wonder about a recent RFP published by US Department of Homeland Security, which is looking to procure a quasi-magic translation and interpreting device for less than a million US-Dollars.Links to the stories discussed in this episode:The Slator 2020 Language Service Provider Indexhttps://slator.com/data-research/the-slator-2020-language-service-provider-index/US Coast Guard Opens RFP to Replace ‘Human Translator’ with ‘Portable Translator’https://slator.com/technology/us-coast-guard-opens-rfp-to-replace-human-translator-with-portable-translator/Here Are the 20 Fastest-Growing Language Service Providers of 2019https://slator.com/data-research/here-are-the-20-fastest-growing-language-service-providers-of-2019/