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Perhaps both things can be true–the responsibility, and the avoidance of it–but that’s not what we discussed after the cameras got turned off. Kernen felt I’d adopted a holier-than-thou posture by specifically bringing up the Nazism and white supremacy that sparked violence in Charlottesville, Virginia. Did Fast Company talk about moral responsibility when President Obama brought rappers who were former drug dealers into the White House, Kernen asked me? The implication is that I was applying a double standard when it came to President Trump. … [Read more...] about Bias In Business Can’t Be Ignored, From Google To Charlottesville

Then, of course, there’s the story itself: Pinterest has ambitions to redefine the world of search, by applying machine learning and artificial intelligence to the nascent domain of visual search, looking beyond text (and even voice) to enable people to use images and photos—or simply a camera lens—to unlock information. Despite far fewer resources than competitors, Silbermann’s team (which includes a star talent poached from Google, a woman named Li Fan) has made significant strides and brought a preliminary product to market, via a feature called Lens. Whether or not Pinterest ultimately dominates the future of visual search, its efforts offer a compelling way for us to introduce our readers to a field that we think will be increasingly important. … [Read more...] about Why Pinterest Deserves The Spotlight

JH: Who is that? [Laughs] If you’ve run a big company, enterprise computing is the underpinning of how something gets built. If you’re Tesla and you’re starting the company, you go and seek somebody who has a made-for-enterprise system: low cost, simple, and you’re going to make one product. So there is a pure genius running the company, but it isn’t the genius that drove that; it’s the economics. It’s also the waste at Ford that caused it to not evolve in that regard. That’s something I want to fix: You should have no advantage ordering your Tesla versus ordering your Ford. Ford’s not stupid. It’s not that they don’t get it. It’s the weight of that [older] enterprise system. That’s the area where disruption sneaks in, and I call it a thief in the night. It steals your livelihood. … [Read more...] about Ford CEO Jim Hackett On The Future Of Car Ownership And Driving