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Apple’s Tim Cook denies his disinterest in design led to Ive’s departure

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by on July 2, 2019 at 6:58 am
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After Jony Ive’s departure from Apple last week, the Wall Street Journal yesterday reported that he left Apple because of top management and CEO Tim Cook’s decreasing interest in design. Now, Cook has slammed the report saying the story is ‘absurd’ and it shows a lack of understanding about how the design team works at Apple. The Apple CEO sent an email to NBC’s reporter Dylan Byers, and explained that the conclusions from WSJ’s report “don’t match reality.” He also added that he’s confident that the design team will thrive under Jeff Williams, Evans Hankey, and Alan Dye’s leadership, and deliver…

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Google wants to make the 25-year-old robots.txt protocol an internet standard

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by on July 2, 2019 at 6:28 am
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Google’s main business has been search, and now it wants to make a core part of it an internet standard. The internet giant has outlined plans to turn robots exclusion protocol (REP) — better known as robots.txt — an internet standard after 25 years. To that effect, it has also made its C++ robots.txt parser that underpins the Googlebot web crawler available on GitHub for anyone to access. “We wanted to help website owners and developers create amazing experiences on the internet instead of worrying about how to control crawlers,” Google said. “Together with the original author of the protocol,…

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Inconvenience store: Tacoma shop’s facial recognition AI is a racist nightmare

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by on July 2, 2019 at 12:41 am
Posted In: Around the Web, artificial intelligence


A convenience store in Tacoma has installed a facial recognition security system to deny customers entry unless they’re approved by an AI. This news has likely been well-received by the city’s discrimination attorneys. State-of-the-art facial recognition sucks. AI simply isn’t good at recognizing faces unless they’re white. This simple fact has been confirmed by academics, experts, and the biggest technology companies on the planet. Here at TNW we’ve dedicated significant coverage to the danger facial recognition technology poses to persons of color, as have many of our peers. But, for whatever reason, Blue Line Technologies — the company responsible for the…

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