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Former Apple Engineer Gets Prison Time for Stealing Driverless Car Tech
Apple engineers deal with a lot of confidential information, but leaking those secrets could land you in jail. Xiaolang Zhang was sentenced to 120 days in prison this week after being convicted of stealing Apple’s self-driving car technology, according to California court filings first reported by 9to5Mac Thursday. The former Apple engineer will also pay…
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Apple’s Project Titan Dreamed Up A Car With Retractable Bumpers
Apple’s patent, released this morning and originally filed in November 2016, shows Apple at one point imagined an extendable, somewhat inflatable, bumper.
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Apple Lays Off 200 Employees Working On Secretive Self-Driving Car Project
Over 200 employees working on Apple’s self-driving cars project, code-named Project Titan, have been laid off. The move is being positioned internally as an “anticipated restructuring”, according to the earliest reports, though it’s not immediately clear that the job losses were actually expected by the people who were laid off.
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Apple’s Electric Car Could Be On The Road By 2019
Apple’s electric vehicle project, once a blurry rumour, is coming into increasingly clear focus. A major scoop from the Wall Street Journal today gives us details about the car’s team, manufacturing, and a ship-by date — of just four years.