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Google approved official Android app of anti-lockdown pressure group promoting breach of Germany s COVID prevention rules
About a year ago, the two major app stores decided to bar tens of millions of app developers from publishing COVID-related apps, no matter how useful those might be, unless they enter into public-private partnerships or co-publish their apps with certain types of entities. Both Apple and Google claimed that this was done in the interest of public safety.
A couple of weeks ago I announced my own app development company s antitrust complaints in multiple jurisdictions over those rules and their arbitrary application. While apps that could make (or early on could have made) a positive contribution to the fight against SARS-CoV-2 get rejected (which is why the team that developed an app named Coronavirus Reporter is suing Apple in the District of New Hampshire), apps that let players act as bioterrorists (telling them to infect the world )
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A new report says that Apple poached a top Porsche engineer to work on its Apple Car.
Dr. Manfred Harrer was previously the boss of Porsche s Cayenne project and was considered one of the best engineers at VW.
A new report says that Apple poached one of Porsche s top engineers to work on its Apple Car project.
Apple is serious. Seven years after CEO Tim Cook commissioned the secret Titan project, the mysterious iCar is now taking shape. According to Business Insider research, the Americans poached the long-standing head of chassis development at Porsche to build their own car. Cayenne boss Dr. Manfred Harrer (48) was considered one of the best engineers in the Volkswagen Group.
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The son of a disgraced former Volkswagen boss has emerged as one of the key players in developing a new miracle battery which could transform the landscape of the automotive industry.
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Business Insider Germany, Martin Winterkorn Junior reportedly turned down a job at Apple to instead be part of a major project at QuantumScape – a US start-up which enjoys backing from the likes of Volkswagen and Bill Gates.
The company, founded by former Stanford University scientists, intends on delivering a new solid-state battery which would offer the benefits of quick charging and a significant driving range for electric vehicles, giving Volkswagen Group a considerable advantage over other car makers.
Sielaff will reportedly start his new job in Gothenburg, Sweden after his obligatory gardening leave, which is expected to last three months, before heading off to Geely’s design headquarters in Shanghai.
In the meantime, Horbury will continue to oversee design development of Geely Auto Group’s brands as well as the company’s design studios in Shanghai, China; Gothenburg, Sweden; Barcelona, Spain; California, USA; Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia and Coventry, England. The British automotive designer, who turns 70 years old in a few weeks’ time, has led Geely Design since 2011 and is said to retire after Sielaff’s arrival.
His successor is certainly well known in the global design scene, putting out cars like the EXP 100 GT and Bacalar, the latter reviving Bentley’s Mulliner bespoke coachbuilding service. Throughout his tenure, the brand also introduced the new Continental, Flying Spur and refreshed Bentayga.