Tag: engineer
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Former Meta Engineer Testifies on Teen Mental Health
[ad_1] On the same day whistleblower Frances Haugen was testifying before Congress about the harms of Facebook and Instagram to children in the fall of 2021, Arturo Béjar, then a contractor at the social media giant, sent an alarming email to Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg about the same topic. In the note, as first reported…
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Libya Dams Were in Danger, Engineer Warned
[ad_1] It had been clear for years that the dams protecting Derna, on Libya’s Mediterranean coast, were in danger of giving way. Torrential rains were not new. Decade after decade, they had pounded the area, washing away the soil that helped soak up water as it ran down from the dry hills above town. Climate…
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DOJ charges former Apple engineer with theft of autonomous car tech for China
[ad_1] A former Apple software program engineer was charged with stealing Apple’s autonomous expertise for a Chinese language self-driving automobile firm, the Division of Justice introduced Tuesday. Weibao Wang labored as a software program engineer at Apple from 2016 to 2018, a DOJ indictment stated. Wang labored on Apple’s Annotation Workforce and was granted “broad entry” to databases which…