Tesla takes a nuts-and-bolts approach to 2022

Open source video player VLC will get a new UI this year with 4.0 launch

Enlarge / An orange traffic cone has long been the logo and symbol for VLC media player. News website Protocol ran an extensive piece on the history and status of the popular open source video player VLC, and the story includes new details about the next major version of the software. Among other things, VLC […]

ISPs spent $235 million on lobbying and donations, “more than $320, 000 a day”

Enlarge (credit: Getty Images | fStop Images – Antenna ) The biggest Internet service providers and their trade groups spent $234. 7 million on lobbying and political donations during the most recent two-year congressional cycle, according to a report released yesterday. The ISPs and their trade groups lobbied against strict net neutrality rules and on […]

California DMV gives Cruise and Waymo OK to charge for rides

Enlarge / A Cruise robotaxi test vehicle in San Francisco. (credit: Cruise) The autonomous vehicle developers Cruise and Waymo both got a little closer to running true driverless robotaxi services in and around San Francisco. In May, both Waymo and Cruise applied to the Ca Department of Motor Vehicles for deployment permits (as opposed to […]