Amazon’s outgoing Echo head is Blue Origin’s new CEO
Blue Origin CEO Bob Smith is retiring at the end of the year and his replacement is coming from Jeff Bezos’ other company. Dave Limp, an Amazon veteran who had planned to step down from his role as head of the company’s consumer devices division, is taking over the CEO
Read moreFord halts work on $3.5B EV battery factory with China’s CATL
Ford confirmed Monday it has immediately stopped work at a $3.5 billion factory in Michigan that was supposed to make cheaper lithium iron phosphate batteries using tech from China’s CATL. “We’re pausing work and limiting spending on construction on the Marshall project until we’re confident about our ability to competitively
Read moreSignal’s Meredith Whittaker: AI is fundamentally ‘a surveillance technology’
Why is it that so many companies that rely on monetizing the data of their users seem to be extremely hot on AI? If you ask Signal president Meredith Whittaker (and I did), she’ll tell you it’s simply because “AI is a surveillance technology.” Onstage at TechCrunch Disrupt 2023, Whittaker
Read moreNew SEC cybersecurity disclosure rules: What you need to know to stay in compliance
The SEC requires companies to report both material cybersecurity incidents and cybersecurity risk management processes in a standardized way.
Read moreMax Q: Things got disrupted
Hello and welcome back to Max Q! I'm home after attending TechCrunch Disrupt, our flagship event in SF. We had some incredible programming and startups onstage for our Battlefield competition.
Read moreApple executives break down AirPods’ new features
AirPods only got a passive mention during the keynote at Apple’s event. It’s understandable — the iPhone 15 and Apple Watch Series 9 (and Ultra 2) were center stage. Besides, the headphones didn’t get the same manner of hardware updates. As a press release issued after the event confirmed, the
Read moreThey Say Error Handling in Go Is Easy, but Is It?
Error handling in Go is simple, but it has its gotchas. Let’s compare it to Java’s defined error handlingContinue reading on Better Programming »
Read moreBuilding an Automated Patient Onboarding App With APIs
How to create a document automation app for a healthcare application using the Document Automation Hub APIContinue reading on Better Programming »
Read moreOperationQueue + Asynchronous Code
Photo by Austris Augusts on UnsplashIn Swift using OperationQueue for asynchronous code may seem like pure hell because, under the hood, Operations are considered complete if the compilation of their synchronous code is completed.In other words, compiling the example described below will output a broken execution order since, by the time
Read moreEngineer to Engineering Manager: For Better or for Worse
You’ve spent your entire career looking at the microscopic details of computing systems. When moving into management, you learn to shareContinue reading on Better Programming »
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