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Stellantis has cut 400 salaried engineering, tech, and software positions

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Dodge and Chrysler’s parent company, Stellantis, has announced plans to lay off around 400 salaried workers from various positions across engineering, technology, and software. “This isn’t going to be the last,” said a person who was briefed on the situation to Automotive News on Friday. What are your thoughts?

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Inflation Bites U.S. Engineering Salaries

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engineering salaries, according to the IEEE-USA 2023 Salary and Benefits Survey. engineers and other tech professionals who were IEEE members grew 6 percent from US $160,097 in 2021 to $169,000 in 2022, excluding overtime pay, profit sharing, and other supplemental earnings, the just-released report indicated.

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Artificial Intelligence is a Top Priority for Tech Leaders in 2024

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With all the concern surrounding artificial intelligence, it’s no surprise that top tech leaders surveyed by IEEE chose AI as the most important technology for 2024. “ Like in the IEEE 2023 survey of tech leaders, the executives said they are concerned about ransomware attacks, phishing, and insider threats.

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DOE awards Virginia Tech $3M for EV charging cybersecurity project

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The US Department of Energy (DOE) has awarded Virginia Tech a $3 million grant for research on electric vehicle charging infrastructure cybersecurity as part of a larger $80 million investment by the department on advanced technologies research ( earlier post ). —Jonathan Petit, senior director of research at OnBoard Security.

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Tech: Biomimetic Engineering Is Evolving ADAS

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As a CTO working in this area of innovation, I field a lot of requests from people in both the tech investment and advanced driver assistance systems (ADAS) industry communities wishing to better understand biomimetic radar. Velcro® is probably the best known example of biomimetic engineering. The History of Biomimetic Engineering.

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Lavoie Series 1 is an e-scooter built with McLaren racing tech

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LAVOIE, a subsidiary of McLaren Applied, introduces the Series 1 electric scooter – created using supercar and cutting-edge global racing engineering excellence. McLaren Applied’s LAVOIE is committed to improving personal mobility.

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5 Ways the Chip Shortage Is Rewiring Tech

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Yuh-Jier Mii, R&D chief at the world’s largest contract chip manufacturer, TSMC, recently told Spectrum he personally believes it will take two to three years to get enough new fabrication facilities online to adequately address the shortfall. The end, unfortunately, is not near. In the past, design was separate from procurement.

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