A former Apple software engineer has been charged by the US Department of Justice for allegedly stealing valuable autonomous vehicle technology and this is not the first time for Apple.
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One of the two Apple engineers accused of stealing trade secrets related to the firm's self-driving car project has pleaded guilty. The stolen material included plans for a circuit board.
Porsche managers met with Apple late last year according to the car company's CEO, Oliver Blume. The contents of the discussion aren't known but Blume said the two firms are on the same wavelength.
Christopher Moore, former Tesla Autopilot software director, has been hired by Apple in order to accelerate efforts of Apple's not-so-secret self-driving car plans codenamed Project Titan.
Apple reportedly wants to launch its self-driving cars under Project Titan in 2024. However, several of the company's top executives have left it recently which may really hamper such plans.
According to a new report in the Financial Times, Apple is in talks to make a major investment in McLaren, or purchase the company outright. The investment would be related to Apple's car project.
It looks like Apple is rethinking its self-driving car project and as a result has laid off many employees. The project doesn't appear to be dead, but it's unknown what the new direction will be.
In an astonishingly hostile remark today, Tesla CEO Elon Musk concluded that Apple is the place for those who can't make it at Tesla, jokingly referring to it as the 'Tesla graveyard'.
Rumors that Apple is developing a car have been swirling for some time, but the company is now said to be tripling the size of its development team, as it aims to meet its target 'ship date' of 2019.
From Microsoft's Rooms and Intel's Skylake, to Indian Denim, Windows 10 patches, HTTP/2, privacy intrusions and Sony's wonky smartglasses, we look back at highlights from this week's top tech news.
Apple is being sued by A123 for poaching some of its most important engineers, which seemingly violates their non-compete clause. The engineers are helping Apple build a large battery division.