May 04
Mineta, formerly the mayor of San Jose, served as the nation’s transportation secretary during the 9/11 terror attacks.
May 03
Black holes are as fascinating as they are terrifying. Nothing is quite as strange as what happens to space and time in these celestial bodies.
May 03
Apple has hired a longtime Ford engineer and executive to work on its long-gestating car project, according to Bloomberg. Desi Ujkashevic had been with the automaker since 1991. Before leaving the company in March, Ujkashevic was Ford’s global director of automotive safety engineering.
She previously oversaw the global body engineering team, safety engineering for Ford of Europe and the global design technical operations division. In her early years at Ford, according to her LinkedIn profile, Ujkashevic held roles in vehicle engineering, testing and durability. She has also worked on Ford’s electric vehicle efforts and regulatory issues. In other words, she seems like exactly the kind of person you’d want to hire for an EV project.
Apple is said to have started work on an autonomous vehicle in 2015. However, those efforts have suffered several setbacks over the years, partly as a result of strategy and staffing changes. Doug Field, who was said to have led Project Titan, left Apple to rejoin Ford last September. However, the reported hire of Ujkashevic is another indication that Apple is still trying to build its own EV.
For what it’s worth, in a recent LinkedIn post, Ujkashevic said she was “excited to start my next adventure and I hope to continue to contribute to society and advancing technology with a purpose […] ultimately making a better world!”
May 03
'Pro-Life Spiderman' Slings Web of Idiotic Conspiracies to Instagram While Climbing Salesforce Tower
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Let’s hope that the upcoming Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse doesn’t include every rendition of the wall-crawler, especially not today’s California variety.
May 03
When Apple released the Magic Keyboard, it essentially gave iPad owners the ability to transform their tablet into a laptop. At least, from a hardware perspective.
May 03
The CW’s Arrowverse may be on the decline, but the DC Extended Universe of content over at HBO Max just keeps growing. The newest project may be a series about Machiavellian ARGUS director and emotionless Task Force X (aka the Suicide Squad) overseer Amanda Waller, with Viola Davis returning to play the character.
May 03
I don’t own an Xbox Series X/S yet. I’ve been tempted, but my PS5 has held me over enough to not feel any urgency to go green. However, that changed a bit this week after Microsoft revealed two glorious new colors for the Xbox Series X/S controller.
May 03
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) reportedly bought access to people’s location data from a private date company that was banned by Google, according to documents obtained by reporters at Motherboard through a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request. The public health agency was planning on using…
May 03
Yesterday, Politico broke the news that the U.S. Supreme Court plans to overturn Roe v Wade, the long-enduring legal decision that enshrined a constitutional right to abortion—news since confirmed by the conservative-leaning Court. Much has been said about the factors leading up to this planned decision and the other…
May 03
On Monday, a leaked draft opinion revealed that the U.S. Supreme Court is likely to soon repeal Roe v. Wade. If finalized, the ruling would reverse nearly five decades of nationwide legal abortion access.
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