Ex-Google engineer charged with theft of autonomous car secrets

San Francisco: A former Google engineer was hit with criminal charges on Tuesday alleging he stole trade secrets from the technology giant’s self-driving car project and took them to Uber. If convicted on the charges, Anthony Levandowski faces a up to10 years in prison and a fine of $250,000, according federal prosecutors who announced the criminal […]

Johnson & Johnson to pay $572m for opioid addiction crisis

Washington: An Oklahoma judge on Monday ordered US health care giant Johnson & Johnson to pay $572 million (Dh2.1 billion) in damages for its role in fostering the state’s opioid addiction crisis. In the first civil trial of a drugmaker over an epidemic that has caused hundreds of thousands of overdose deaths, Judge Thad Balkman […]