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...Apple co-founder Steve Jobs is said to have taken a strong personal interest in Siri, seeing it as the precursor to more powerful language assistants that might one day change the way people get things done...
...Steve Martin is the Steve Martin-iest person that you can possibly imagine. Lilah Raptopoulos Oh, that’s beautiful. I love to hear that. OK, Jo, Rob, what a joy....
...While the rivalry has been less noisy since, two former Apple engineers said the iPhone maker has held a “grudge” against Google ever since....
...Orit Mizrachi, who spent six years at Apple until late 2017, mostly as a legal administrative assistant, went to HR on two occasions alleging a hostile work environment....
...When Apple Maps first launched in 2012, it was so prone to errors that Scott Forstall, one of the company’s top lieutenants to late co-founder Steve Jobs, was forced to resign....
...“The goal is to influence people,” said Steve Hilton, a retired doctor and one of those protesting. “It would be good if the government took [climate change] seriously.”...
...This is not doomed to failure: Apple runs on cross-disciplinary teamwork between designers and software engineers....
...“He works all day long,” said one engineer at Alibaba’s headquarters in Hangzhou. “He doesn’t even go out for lunch and dinner. Instead, his assistant brings food to his office every day.”...
...Steve Turner, the union’s assistant general secretary for aerospace, said: “The assurances that the government claims to have secured are unenforceable, short-term and completely inadequate.”...
...“We would more rightly define it [Melrose’s record] as asset-stripping,” Steve Turner, assistant general secretary of the Unite trade union, recently told lawmakers on a parliamentary committee....
...“Ministers should be under no illusion,” said Steve Turner, Unite assistant general secretary, on Monday night after news of the job losses emerged....
...Sir James has 400 engineers working on the project, which began two-and-a-half years ago....
...His first job was working as an engineer in the early days of software company Kingsoft, where he later became president and led it to an IPO....
...Current and former workers say this new Microsoft is unrecognisable from the one under Steve Ballmer....
...Ford is letting Amazon put Alexa, the artificial intelligence software that powers its Echo home assistant, into Ford cars. The impact is also clear in retailing....
...Iovine worried about the industry’s prospects but was reinvigorated when he first met Steve Jobs in 2003 and saw what the latter was doing with technology....
...Tools like these, made available through the cloud, are part of a new approach that is very different from Microsoft under Mr Nadella’s predecessors, Mr Gates and Steve Ballmer, says Mr Sanfilippo, who is...
...Customer service assistants earn £30,000, rising to £50,000 for a station supervisor, with 52 days’ leave....
...When a SpaceX engineer tells him a supplier has quoted a price of $120,000 for a rocket part, for instance, Musk laughs and says it is no more complicated than a garage-door opener: the engineer eventually...
...In the beginning there were two Steves at Apple: Jobs and Wozniak. Google had Larry Page and Sergey Brin....
...Steve Jobs warned Apple’s leadership a year before his death that the company he founded faced an “innovator’s dilemma” over the growing threat from Google and promised a “holy war” on smartphones running...
...Samsung’s legal tactic mimics Apple’s lyrical retelling of the “revolutionary” iPhone’s creation by its late founder Steve Jobs at the 2012 trial....
...One of the many legacies of Steve Jobs at Apple has been the decluttered personal style of technology executives....
...Richard Lyons, dean of UC Berkeley’s Haas School of Business, and Silicon Valley serial entrepreneur Steve Blank are to head up a programme to commercialise university research and fostering innovation in...
...He joined Qualcomm as an engineer in 1990 and rose through the ranks to succeed his father as chief executive in 2005....
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