One of the many thousands of Intel employees let go this year is being sued by Intel for $250,000 after allegedly stealing over 18,000 files from Intel servers, some of which are reportedly top secret in nature. Intel hopes to recover this data, but to date, the engineer hasn’t responded …
Read More »Word App Up Spell
Former Apple software engineer and designer Ken Kocienda, whose work included the original iPhone and the development of touchscreen autocorrect, has created his first iOS app, Up Spell. The fast-paced, fun word game challenges users to spell all the words you can in two minutes and uses a lexicon of …
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Ex-Intel Engineer: Skylake QA Problems Drove Apple Away Now that Apple and x86 have made their impending breakup official, attention has turned to when the company made that decision and why. According to an ex-Intel engineer, Apple pulled the trigger as far back as 2015, after it saw how buggy …
Read More »An engineer’s guide to picking a startup
Anshu Sharma was a venture partner at Storm Ventures and is currently the chief executive at a still-in-stealth startup. One of the questions I often get from engineers I mentor is how do you decide on what early stage startup is worth working for? Often, this is long before you …
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