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Self-driving car engineer Anthony Levandowski files motion to force Uber into arbitration

April 2, 2020April 2, 2020 NewsEditorAlphabet, Anthony Levandowski, California, Claire Delaunay, district attorney, Don Burnette, Emerging-Technologies, engineer, Google, Judge, lior ron, otto, san francisco bay area, self-driving cars, U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, Uber, unmanned ground vehicles, waymo

Anthony Levandowski, the star self-driving car engineer who was at the center of a trade secrets lawsuit, has filed a motion to compel Uber into arbitration in the hopes that his former employee will have to shoulder the cost of at least part of the $179 million judgment against him. The motion to compel arbitration filed this week is part of Levandowski’s bankruptcy proceedings. It’s the latest chapter in a long and winding legal saga that has entangled Uber and Waymo, the former Google self-driving project that is now a…

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Stanford cancels classes in response to novel coronavirus outbreak

March 12, 2020March 12, 2020 NewsEditorcoronavirus, san francisco bay area, Stanford University

Following on the heels of several major cancellations of events the past few days, including the SXSW conference in Austin and the tech conference SaaStr, Stanford University, which is located in the heart of Silicon Valley in Palo Alto, California, announced late Friday that the school would cancel in-person classes for the final two weeks of the university’s winter quarter in response to the expanding outbreak of novel coronavirus, or COVID-19. In a statement posted by the university, Stanford’s provost Persis Drell announced that the university would cancel two weeks of…