Ex-Apple employee charged with stealing self-driving car secrets – TechCrunch

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A former Apple employee who downloaded a plan for a self-driving car circuit board and booked a flight to China was arrested at the San Jose airport on July 7th. The man, Xiaolang Zhang, had made known that he was going to go work for a Chinese self-driving car startup and was bouncing with the secrets, perhaps as a bounty or shortcut.

The charges were reported earlier today by Reuters.…

Ex-Apple Worker Accused of Stealing Self-Driving Automobile Tech

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Federal prosecutors have charged a former Apple worker with stealing commerce secrets and techniques associated to Apple’s autonomous car program.

Xiaolang Zhang allegedly labored on Apple’s secretive self-driving automobile undertaking. Zhang left Apple in April saying he was going to work for a Chinese language electrical car firm referred to as Xpeng Motors. He’s accused of copying…

The creators of Dark Sky, who sold their popular weather app to Apple in March 2020, are back with a new take on weather forecasting. The team recently announced the launch of their new app, Acme Weather, which they claim offers a better and more reliable forecast than the one they had at Dark Sky. The app will also offer a range of unique weather notifications, including fun ones like alerts…

Ex-Apple Engineers Build a Speed-Spotting Lidar for Self-Driving Cars

It’s lunchtime, and the worker bees of Mountain View who aren’t interested in their company’s own catering are walking down East Middlefield Road in search of grub. It’s a lovely esplanade, but all the trees and light poles make these pedestrians hard to spot.

That makes things tricky for a human driver, and extra troublesome for a robot trying to learn to work the wheel. But on a large…