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Enlarge / Erica Joy Baker (center), a top engineer at Patreon, said of former Uber CEO Travis Kalanick: “I don’t need to see Travis back.” (credit: Cyrus Farivar) SAN FRANCISCO—On the same day that the City by the Bay mourned the sudden passing of its tech-friendly mayor, Ed Lee, various tech leaders came together to […]
Enlarge / To genetically engineer RuBisCo, we’ll no longer need all the time and space involved with these plants. (credit: Roy Kaltschmidt) The single most abundant protein on the planet isn’t actually very good at its job. And, unfortunately, its job is important: to pull carbon dioxide out of the atmosphere and incorporate it into […]
Published time: 29 Oct, 2017 15:31 A Youtuber says her father was relieved of his position as an Apple engineer after she posted an unauthorized video of the new iPhone X online before the device’s official release. Brooke Amelia Peterson has issued a tearful Youtube video explaining how a “hands-on” look at the unreleased smartphone […]
– Audi Sport’s chief engineer, Stephan Reil, is leaving the high-performance subsidiary, which previously was known as Quattro GmbH and which has always enjoyed considerable independence form the mothership. Reil was a fixture at the company and perhaps the most prominent face there next to his various bosses, who included Werner Frowein, Frank van Meel, […]
Enlarge / Volkswagen AG Turbocharged Direct Injection (TDI) vehicles sit parked in a storage lot at San Bernardino International Airport (SBD) at dusk in San Bernardino, California, U.S., on Wednesday, April 5, 2017. Volkswagen agreed last year to buy back about 500,000 diesels that it rigged to pass U.S. emissions tests if it can’t figure […]
(credit: flickr / deltamike) The engineer whose blog post kicked off an internal storm at Uber isn’t done speaking up about her former employer. Ex-Uber engineer Susan Fowler has filed an amicus brief (PDF) with the Supreme Court, weighing in on a case about arbitration and an employee’s rights to file a class-action lawsuit. Fowler’s […]
Roy Lunn, the engineer behind the Le Mans-winning Ford GT40 sports car, the first Mustang concept and the forefather of the modern SUV and crossover thanks to his work developing the first unibody Jeep Cherokee, has died. He was 92. Lunn died in Santa Barbara, Calif., on Aug. 5 following a stroke, according to media […]
Legendary programmer Chris Lattner has had a roller coaster of a year. He left Apple (where he developed the Swift programming language) to help build Tesla’s Autopilot technology, only to leave months later after realizing that he wasn’t a good fit. However, Lattner might be settling down. He just announced that he’s joining Google (namely, […]
Mark Blinch/Reuters By now, most people have heard about the infamous “anti-diversity” memo written by a male Google engineer (now fired) that went viral over last weekend. There’s no point in rehashing the drivel about “biological differences” he wrapped up in scientific-sounding jargon (feel free read it for yourself here). But it’s worth correcting the record because, […]
Former Google engineer James Damore’s memo on diversity generated lots of controversy. So too, as it turns out, has the web giant’s subsequent decision to fire him. Employees across Silicon Valley are deeply divided about Google’s move, according to a survey conducted on Tuesday and Wednesday by Blind, an anonymous corporate chat app. When Blind asked […]
