The High-Stakes Race to Engineer New Psychedelic Drugs
“This is my life,” Wallach says. “There is nothing else I’d rather be doing. If I was given a billion dollars, today, the first thing I would do is build a…
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Google Fires Engineer Who Claims Its A.I. Is Conscious
SAN FRANCISCO — Google fired one of its engineers, Blake Lemoine, on Friday, more than a month after he raised ethical concerns about how the company was…
Google fires AI engineer Blake Lemoine, who claimed its LaMDA 2 AI is sentient
Blake Lemoine, the Google engineer who publicly claimed that the company’s LaMDA conversational artificial intelligence is sentient, has been fired,…
Engineer behind the USB-C iPhone repeated the trick with AirPods
Ken Pillonel is the engineer who created the world’s first USB-C iPhone several months ago, selling the device for thousands of dollars on eBay. He’s…
Jury convicts ex-CIA engineer for leaking the agency’s hacking toolset
Joshua Schulte, the former CIA engineer arrested for what's being called the biggest theft of classified information in the agency's history, has been…
Ex-CIA engineer Joshua Schulte convicted over massive ‘Vault 7’ leak in 2017
On Wednesday, a jury in New York convicted ex-Central Intelligence Agency engineer Joshua Schulte on all nine charges he faced (as first reported by…
An ex-Apple engineer reveals why you couldn’t copy/cut/paste text on the original iPhone
It's been nearly 15 years since Steve Jobs unveiled the original iPhone in 2007. This is the device that, we could say, kickstarted…
Ex-Apple engineer explains why the original iPhone couldn’t copy and paste
The iPhone is a formidable device, the main computer many people interact with during the day. The same goes for Android handsets, of course.…
Former Amazon engineer convicted in 2019 Capital One data breach
A Seattle jury has found Paige Thompson, a former Amazon software engineer accused of stealing data from Capital One in 2019, guilty of wire fraud and five…
The curious case of the flying engineer
Get on a plane? Business class, I hope. Image: Maskot/ GettyIt's easy to have a clichéd image of an engineer.Staring into a screen for at least 14 hours…