Apple electric car project

Apple reportedly canceled its electric-car project earlier this week, ending around a decade of research and development on the ambitious project. While we knew the tech giant had spent billions on its efforts, a New York Times report on Wednesday put a precise figure on it: $10 billion. It’s an astonishing amount of money for a project that will never see the light of day, and even more so when you consider that many of those working on it apparently suspected that the endeavor would come to nothing. Internally, the…

Photo: CFOTO/Future Publishing (Getty Images)Apple’s long-anticipated (and much delayed) project to build an electric car is going to that junkyard heap in the sky, according to a new report from Bloomberg. And much of the team will transition to working on generative AI, though it’s unclear how many people might be laid off.The M3 MacBook Pro: Made Dark for HalloweenApple executives, Jeff Williams and Kevin Lynch, recently shared the news with several hundred staffers on the project that it would “begin winding down,”…

Apple engineers deal with a lot of confidential information, but leaking those secrets could land you in jail. Xiaolang Zhang was sentenced to 120 days in prison this week after being convicted of stealing Apple’s self-driving car technology, according to California court filings first reported by 9to5Mac Thursday. The former Apple engineer will also pay over $140,000 for attempting to hand Apple’s classified data to a Chinese competitor.The M3 MacBook Pro: Made Dark for HalloweenZhang worked on “Project Titan,” the…

Apple has yet to confirm the existence of the Apple Car, but it appears this thing hit another snag on the way to its big reveal. WatchThe M3 MacBook Pro: Made Dark for Halloween CCShare SubtitlesOffEnglishShare this VideoFacebookTwitterEmailRedditLinkview videoThe M3 MacBook Pro: Made Dark for HalloweenTop Takeaways from the Apple EventMarch 8, 2022The New M3-Powered iMacs Are Triggering Serious Deja VuNovember 6, 2023The Apple Car won’t make its debut until 2028, according to a report from Bloomberg…

Photo: Eric Thayer (Getty Images)Though they held out longer than most, Apple has reportedly finally succumbed to the great tech layoffs of 2022.The Big Tech titan reportedly laid off around 100 of its contract-based recruiters over the past week, according to sources speaking in a recent Bloomberg report. Those alleged layoffs come amid a hiring slowdown at Apple and during a wider tech downturn that’s forced tens of thousands of tech workers to start looking for new jobs.Apple’s recent layoffs notably did not affect…