A former Apple employee has pleaded guilty to stealing trade secrets from the company regarding its highly secretive self-driving car project. Xiaolang Zhang was charged on Aug. 22 at a court in San J...
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Coin Switch Hires Sudheer Tumuluru as Its Main Crypto Engineer
Coin Switch – a digital currency investing app – has announced Sudheer Tumuluru as the head of its crypto engineering department. Coin Switch Has Added Many People to Its Payroll Sudheer previously se...
AI Ethics Asks Whether It Makes Any Sense To Ask AI If AI Itself Is Sentient
AI Ethics and the question of whether to ask AI if it is sentient. getty If I ask you whether you are sentient, you will undoubtedly assert that you are. Allow me to double-check that assumption. Are ...
Google Parts With Engineer Who Claimed Its AI System Is Sentient
Google fired an engineer who contended that an artificial-intelligence chatbot the company developed had become sentient, telling him that he had violated the company’s data security policies after it...
Engineer Who Fled Charges of Stealing Chip Technology in US Now Thrives in China
(Bloomberg) — Few companies are better positioned to benefit from the crippling shortage of computer chips than ASML Holding NV, a Dutch manufacturer whose equipment plays an integral role in ma...
Ex-Tesla Engineer Building Silicon Anode Plant As U.S. Amps Up EV Battery Production
Sila cofounder and CEO Gene Berdichevsky is developing anode materials that can improve energy density and the lower costs of EV batteries. Sila Sila, a battery materials startup cofounded by one of T...
Former Coinbase Engineer Donates $1M to Fund Bitcoin Development
Brink, an independent non-profit organization, has received $1 million from a former Coinbase engineer, Craig Hammell, to support Bitcoin development. Announcing the donation in a tweet, Brink noted t...
TreasureDAO engineer alleged to have past involvement in questionable NFT projects
On Wednesday, decentralized finance, or DeFi, detective @zachxbt published a long thread about TreasureDAO’s frontend engineer Just Cheese, or JC, and his alleged past involvement in several non...
Spotify is hiring a senior backend engineer to explore web3
advertisement Spotify could be taking its first steps into crypto, according to a job listing posted on Linkedin. The streaming company is hiring a senior backend engineer to explore new technologies ...
Crypto VC Paradigm hires anon developer and high school student as research engineer
advertisement Anonymous developer Transmissions has joined crypto derivatives platform Paradigm. He tweeted the news that they had joined as a research engineer today. Transmissions will continue to c...
What Is Autonomy? This Framework Aims to Help Warfighters and Engineers Figure It Out
To successfully develop autonomous teaming aircraft like Boeing’s Loyal Wingman drone, warfighters … [+] and engineers will have to have a common frame of reference the Mitchell Institute ...
Renowned Computer Engineer Cracks Trezor Wallet Containing $2 Million Worth of Crypto
NYC-based entrepreneur Dan Reich has recently regained access to more than $2 million worth of crypto left in a Trezor One hardware wallet with the help of renowned computer engineer and hardware hack...
Engineer hacks Trezor wallet, recovers $2M in ‘lost’ crypto
A computer engineer and hardware hacker has revealed how he managed to crack a Trezor One hardware wallet containing more than $2 million in funds. Joe Grand — who is based in Portland also known by h...
An Indian engineer will run Google’s new blockchain division — Quartz India
Yet another senior executive of Indian origin is running a major unit of a global company; this time, it’s Google’s new blockchain division. Engineer Shivakumar Venkataraman has been appointed to over...
Expect more than 4 rate increases in 2022, and a lot of market volatility, says JPMorgan’s Dimon: ‘If we’re lucky’ the Fed can engineer a “soft landing.”‘
JPMorgan Chase & Co. JPM, +0.10% CEO Jamie Dimon said the consumer remains in great shape in 2022 but also said volatility could be elevated in financial markets as the Federal Reserve aims to nav...