Hashtag Trending May 4 – Google fires AI researcher; Android users switch to iPhone

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According the Engadget, The New York Times has learned Google fired a machine learning scientist about two months ago, after the company refused to publish a paper they wrote challenging earlier findings that computers could design some chip components more effectively than humans.

Cook also noted that not only was the iPhone performing well but that it was seeing “strong double-digit” growth for people upgrading their iPhone and former Android users switching over to iPhones.

Milestones like this have been common in smaller grids such as South Australia, but to achieve this in California, which is one of the world’s largest economies and biggest grids, is extremely significant.

Occlusion Grotesque is a project exploring what it means to design with nature and on nature’s terms. The project, created by Bjorn Karmann, is an experimental typeface that is carved into the bark of a tree.

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