Former Apple car engineer pleads guilty to trade secret theft

[ad_1] A former Apple Inc engineer on Monday pleaded guilty to trade secret theft – one of two people accused of stealing trade secrets from the iPhone maker’s nascent self-driving car program. U.S. federal prosecutors have alleged that Xiaolang Zhang downloaded the plan for a circuit board for Apple’s self-driving after disclosing his intentions to […]

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Apple car director heads to Luminar after less than a year

[ad_1] Luminar Technologies Inc hired Christopher “CJ” Moore, a manager on Apple Inc’s car project and a former director of Autopilot at Tesla Inc, to lead global software development. Moore, who had joined Apple in August, will lead Luminar’s software team to develop autonomous safety features integrated with its lidar, or laser sensors, the auto-parts […]

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