Compare and contrast.
Over the weekend, news emerged that Twitter will delete joke stealing tweets based on copyright infringement complaints.
We just have one question: How will this affect brands?
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Madewell's Email Unsubscribe Form Is The Worst
Don’t just click the big button that says unsubscribe — first, uncheck the smaller box to confirm that you really mean it.
It can take a while to muster up the energy to unsubscribe from a brand's promotional emails. When you finally do it, you want it to be fast and painless.
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That's why the unsubscribe page for Madewell's emails is particularly infuriating.
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You might quickly hit unsubscribe and close the window. But! That's not enough. Before pressing the big UNSUBSCRIBE button, you have to uncheck a box then hit the button.
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And it seems to be working....
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Elon Musk, Stephen Hawking Warn Of Killer Robot War
No fate but what you make: Leading artificial intelligence researchers plead for a ban on autonomous weapons.
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First came gunpowder. Then, nuclear bombs. The next evolution of warfare, experts fear, will be defined by robots -- or more precisely, the absence of human decision-making.
In an open letter presented Monday at the International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence in Buenos Aires, a who's who of robotics and AI researchers call for a ban on autonomous weapons systems, arguing that the current trajectory of weapons science and recent legal arguments used by the United States to justify novel forms of extrajudicial killing may herald an abysmal and dystopian future.
"If any major military power pushes ahead with AI weapon development, a global arms race is virtually inevitable," states the letter, published by the Future of Life Institute and co-signed by SpaceX and Tesla founder Elon Musk, theoretical physicist Stephen Hawking, and MIT professor Noam Chomsky, as well as Steve Wozniak, the co-founder of Apple, and Demis Hassabis of Google DeepMind.
Musk has previously described AI as "potentially more dangerous than nukes," worrying that by unleashing the power of robots, human beings will act as a "biological boot loader for digital super-intelligence." These comments echo those of Hawking, who told the BBC last year that "artificial intelligence could spell the end of the human race."
The letter states that unlike nuclear arms, which require enormous financial investment and rare raw materials to develop, automated weapons are relatively cheap, lending themselves to widespread manufacture. The experts argue that these weapons may become so ubiquitous that it's only a matter of time before they are sold on the black market, offering up robot killers to dictators, warlords, and terrorists.
"Autonomous weapons are ideal for tasks such as assassinations, destabilizing nations, subduing populations and selectively killing a particular ethnic group. We therefore believe that a military AI arms race would not be beneficial for humanity," the letter explains.
While automated weapons might reduce human causalities for the aggressor, proponents argue, they also lower the threshold for waging war. What's more, such weapons could also negatively impact future AI research, the letter's signatories say.
"Just as most chemists and biologists have no interest in building chemical or biological weapons, most AI researchers have no interest in building AI weapons — and do not want others to tarnish their field by doing so, potentially creating a major public backlash against AI that curtails its future societal benefits."
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The Apple Watch Is Coming To Best Buy Next Week
Best Buy will be the first major U.S. retailer beside Apple to sell the new wearable.
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Best Buy will sell Apple Watches online and in more than 100 stores nationwide starting Aug. 7, making it the first major national retailer — besides Apple — to do so.
Though Best Buy will carry Apple Watch Sport and Apple Watch as well as an array of accessories, it will not offer the gold-cased Apple Watch Edition. By the holidays, a total of more than 300 Best Buy stores will carry the watch, Apple said Sunday.
"The Apple Watch is an important addition to an emerging product category, and we know our customers want it," Jason Bonfig, senior category officer at Best Buy, said in a press release.
Customers began pre-ordering the Apple Watch in April, but the gadget, which starts at $350, wasn't available for purchase in Apple's retail stores until just last month.
Expanding Watch's availability to Best Buy will almost certainly lead to an increase in sales, but it's unclear what that will mean in the grand picture of the gadget's success, since Apple won't disclose how many watches have been sold. Last week, in its latest quarterly earnings report, the company said its category of "other" devices — which includes the watch, iPod, and Apple TV — went to $2.6 billion from $1.7 billion the previous quarter.
"As you know, we made a decision back in September, quite several months ago, not to disclose the shipments on the watch," CEO Tim Cook told analysts on an earnings call. "That was not a matter of not being transparent. It was a matter of not giving our competition insight. It's a product that we worked really hard on."
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Kim Kardashian Asked To Edit Tweets And Twitter's CEO Called It A "Great Idea!"
In response to her tweet and email, Twitter co-founder and interim CEO Jack Dorsey chimed in, calling an edit feature a “great idea!”
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On Friday night, the reality star said she asked Twitter to allow users to edit tweets, a feature available on other social media platforms including Facebook and Instagram.
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