Tag: Workers
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Apple’s Taiwanese tech contractor to replace workers with robots
The Taiwanese company behind much of Apple’s iPad and iPhone tech has revealed that it’s to replace thousands of its manual labour with machine workers in the next three years. Foxconn is a secretive tech manufacturing contractor which currently ”employs” ten thousand robots in tasks such as parts assembly and spraying, and this number will be upped…
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Foxconn workers arrested for leaking Apple components
Apple take leaks seriously. So seriously in fact, that four workers from the manufacturing arm Foxconn have been arrested and charged over stealing components from the iPad 2. Way back in December, images of iPad 2 cases featuring a rear-facing camera started showing up online – at the time, Foxconn reported its suspicions that the…