The vlog included Brooke Amelia Peterson going to visit her father at the Apple campus, where she saw an unreleased iPhone X and recorded it, as well as special employee-only QR codes.

The video was soon noticed by the likes of 9to5Mac and YouTube users.

Apple requested the video was removed, but it was too late as the content had already spread.

Brooke Peterson said to the BBC: “At the end of the day when you work for Apple, it doesn’t matter how good of a person you are, if you break a rule, they just have no tolerance.

“Apple really did like my dad. And they let him go. Because he broke a rule. It was an innocent mistake, and he fully apologises.”

Filming on Apple’s campus is strictly prohibited.

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Google has installed Titan in thousands of computer servers and network cards that populate its data centres that controls Google’s cloud services, while scanning hardware to ensure it has not been with tampered with.

The search giant hopes the chip, that is the size of a small stud earing, carves out the cloud computer market worldwide, which is forecasted by Gartner to be worth nearly US$50billion.

A Google spokeswoman said: “The company plans to disclose Titan’s technical details in a blog post on Thursday.”

Neal Mueller, head of infrastructure product marketing for Google Cloud Platform, said in a recent interview: “If anything has been changed, Titan chip will prevent the machine from booting.”

‘Differentiating devices’

According to Reuters, data centre operators are worried that nation-state hackers or cyber criminals could compromise their services, which Asian hardware companies have mostly made, before reaching the United States.

“It allows us to maintain a level of understanding in our supply chain that we otherwise wouldn’t have,” Mueller added.

According to Synergy Research Group, neither Microsoft, who holds 13% of the cloud market share, not Amazon, who owns 41%, have admitted to having similar features.

With Google owning just 7% of the cloud market worldwide, Titan’s strategy hopes to differentiate its devices and attract enterprise customers from sectors with complex compliance regulations, such as those in medical and finance services.

Kim Forrest, vice president at Fort Pitt Capital Group, said to Reuters: “Having physical safeguards goes a long way to telling the story of how seriously Google takes people’s security.”

Google also uses Titan chips to protect servers such as YouTube and Gmail.

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Google is highly dependent on Apple, with the majority of its revenue coming from search result pages and ads, controlling roughly 18% of the smartphone market.

Most users update iOS every few months, so default settings of consumer iPhones change, making Google spend more money, frequently, to keep up-to-date with its traffic.

According to a Bernstein Research analyst, Google could pay as much as US$3billion a year to remain the default option in Safari.

Tech Crunch also noted that when Apple found out Google was competing with Android, the company removed the YouTube app from iOS and worked on Apple Maps instead – so the “multinational tech company isn’t afraid of saying no to Google when it comes to iOS features”.

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The search engine is battling against the rise of extremist content after finding that advanced programmes that use machine learning is more accurate and faster than humans at hiding illicit content from YouTube.

One of YouTube’s “major issues” is that users upload up to 400 hours of content every minute, making filtering content a challenge that “only an algorithmic approach is likely to manage”, according to the company.

YouTube announced that its machine learning systems have made “great leaps in tackling the problem”, with help from 15 other institutions, including the Anti-Defamation League, the No Hate Speech Movement, and the Institute for Strategic Dialogue.

‘Systems are more accurate than humans’

A YouTube spokesperson said to The Guardian: “While these tools aren’t perfect, and aren’t right for every setting, in many cases our systems have proven more accurate than humans at flagging videos that need to be removed.

“Our initial use of machine learning has more than doubled both the number of videos we have removed for violent extremism, as well as the rate at which we have taken this kind of content down. Over 75% of the videos we have removed for violent extremism over the past month were taken down before receiving a single human flag.”

Google plans to continue developing the machine learning technology and to collaborate with other technology companies to tackle online extremism.

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