Month: February 2020
US court rejects Apple’s appeal in patent dispute with VirnetX
In the latest turn of events in the decade-long legal battle between Apple and VirnetX, the US Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit has denied a request by the Cupertino-based company to reverse part of an earlier ruling which found that its iPhones had infringed on VirnetX’s VPN patents.…
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Karma Automotive to lay off 60 more workers at California headquarters
Karma Automotive is laying off 60 workers at its Irvine, Calif., headquarters, just three months after cutting 200 workers, according to documents filed with the California Employment Development Department. The Chinese-backed California-based startup filed the notice under the Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification Act, which requires employers to alert the…
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FAA’s proposed remote ID rules should make compliance easy
Jon Hegranes Contributor Jon is the CEO and co-founder of Kittyhawk, the leading provider of unmanned software and airspace systems. More posts by this contributor Separating fiction from feasibility in the future of drone delivery When Josh, my co-founder, and I founded Kittyhawk, we saw the need for a new…
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Jeff Bezos bought the most expensive property in LA with an eighth of a percent of his net worth
According to The Wall Street Journal, Amazon founder Jeff Bezos has reportedly just bought the most expensive property in Los Angeles from David Geffen, another unimaginably wealthy man, for $165 million. (It’s the Warner Estate, which spreads out over nine acres in Beverly Hills.) That’s a wild amount of money…
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Epic Games CEO Tim Sweeney thinks games can be political, but gaming companies should stay out of politics
Epic Games CEO Tim Sweeney is one of the biggest names in video games these days, thanks to the seemingly unstoppable success of Fortnite. And with the spotlight on him as the keynote speaker at the annual DICE Summit, (as recapped by The Hollywood Reporter, VentureBeat, and others) Sweeney gave…
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Mark Zuckerberg’s privilege to be forgotten
A lengthy piece from Steven Levy in Wired today revealed parts of a 2006 journal from Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg. You can read the Wired story here, and also our take on the most notable part of it, which is that Zuckerberg once considered something wild called “dark profiles.” But…
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