A famous example is the fake news epidemic that swept Facebook during the 2016 American presidential election.[55] Recall that the news feed algorithm doesn’t consider how true or reputable a post is; it only cares about maximizing engagement.[56] Fake newsmongers took advantage of this to attack politicians they didn’t like, posting outrageous and

As UXPin says, “Wireframes are the skeleton. Prototypes demonstrate the behavior. Mockups are the skin.”[1480]

(The general pattern is that India is Western companies’ blueprint for how to tackle the developing world, and after products get traction there the next stop is usually Southeast Asia.[1048])

So it’s no wonder why Time called Instagram “one of the smartest acquisitions ever.”[975]

But in 2017, Instagram copied Snapchat’s most famous feature, Stories,[973] which demolished Snapchat, slowing the app’s growth by 82%.[974] Instagram had proved, yet again, why it was such a valuable asset for Facebook.

Uber hasn’t been in the best financial straits, losing over $1 billion a year. A big reason for that has been its continued insistence on growth over profits.[910]

As BlackBerry sank into third place behind iPhone and Android, it got stuck in a vicious cycle called the “chicken-and-egg problem.”[130] Developers wouldn’t build apps for the BlackBerry platform if it didn’t have any users, and users wouldn’t buy BlackBerries unless there were enough apps.[131] Imagine if no one would walk into a party unless

Like the cake example, an artificial neural network keeps track of many variables and assigns each variable a “weight”: the amount of butter, the time to bake, or the oven temperature, to name a few.[1398] As you give the artificial neural network feedback, it tweaks the weights to get closer to the right answer, much like you adjusted your cake

Google’s self-driving car project Waymo has started collaborating with Lyft to create self-driving cars,[926]