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Uber Fires Former Google engineer Anthony Levandowski

Accepted submission by DannyB at 2017-05-30 20:19:41 from the poor downtrodden Uber dept.
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Uber Fires Former Google Engineer at Heart of Self-Driving Dispute [nytimes.com]

Uber has fired Anthony Levandowski, a vice president of technology and the star engineer leading the company’s self-driving automobile efforts, according to an internal email sent to employees on Tuesday.

Mr. Levandowski’s termination, effective immediately, comes as a result of his involvement in a legal battle between Uber and Waymo, the self-driving technology unit spun out of Google last year. Waymo claims that Uber is using trade secrets stolen from Google to develop Uber’s self-driving vehicles, a plan aided by Mr. Levandowski, a former longtime Google employee.

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