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Apple's secret car project might have a new boss The Wall Street Journal reports that Bob Mansfield is heading up Apple's secret car project the rumored internal code name for the rumored car project is project Titan now you're wondering who's Bob Mansfield in years past bob was Apple's head of hardware engineering development under him Apple introduced products like the iPad the iMac and MacBook Air you know devices that people generally like his job title at Apple in 2012 was senior vice president of technologies in an old press release Apple explained what that means the senior VP of technologies combines all of Apple's Wireless teams across the company in one organization Apple semiconductor teams also report sabab in that organization the semiconductor teams designed things like the processors and Apple's iPhones and iPads if you take a look at Apple's press info page of executive profiles you'll see the usual suspects like Tim Cook Jonathan Ive and Phil Schiller however Bob is nowhere to be found there isn't even another person named Bob on the page although there is a Robert there Journal says employees at Apple notice that all senior managers on project Titan are now reporting to Mansfield that would indicate that bob is the big boss of Titan so what do we know about Apple's Karr project officially nothing because Apple does not make a habit of telling people its plans however Tesla CEO Elon Musk says he expects Apple to release a car as soon as the year 2020 must told a German newspaper that Apple has hired people that Tesla has already fired he says we always jokingly call Apple the Tesla graveyard if you don't make it a Tesla you go work at Apple and if you thought must was just kidding he added I'm not kidding that's it for this tech news update I'm Mayas actor and you can stay on top of the biggest stories at cnet.com slash