U.S. Government officials overruled engineers, let Boeing 737-MAX keep flying.

“Some engineers for the Federal Aviation Administration wanted to ground the Boeing 737 Max soon after a second deadly crash, but top officials in the agency overruled them.” Officials “held off grounding the plane despite growing international pressure.” https://apnews.com/article/boeing-max-crashes-faa-ea8fac0ad2758b08c58d2d64756fbf37   h/t …

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Elon Musk Publicly Humiliates His Engineers Again

by Chris Black We thought it was over, but Elon Musk is back to publicly humiliating his engineers before ultimately firing them. In this case, he even went as far as to publicly disclose a worker’s disability. https://twitter.com/iamharaldur/status/1632843191773716481 Elon Musk …

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Russian engineers developed an AI based avatars app for old iPhones. Apple didn’t let it go live.

https://medium.com/swlh/russian-engineers-developed-an-ai-based-avatars-app-for-old-iphones-apple-didnt-let-it-go-live-aaeb3ff16298 “Too similar to Animoji, which creates a misleading association with Apple products.”, — The App Store Review Team In other words, your app is better than Animoji, and they don’t want the competition. h/t philippbatura