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Anthony Levandowski, ex-head of Uber's self-driving car unit, was fined $179 million over theft of intellectual property -- and promptly declared bankruptcy. 

Waymo filed a lawsuit against Uber alleging that Otto — a startup purchased by Uber last year — stole confidential information.

The startup behind the Otto smart lock has suspended operations after a firm withdrew an acquisition offer. It's now evaluating its options.

Also today: Companies developing self-driving tech unleash the lawyers, Mobile World Congress 2017 is set to heat up the smartphone industry.

Ohio takes a step in innovative transportation technology with the announcement that an Otto self-driving truck will begin traveling on public roads.

A crew led by former Googlers have their sights on converting the country's long-haul trucks to self-driving technology.

Some ex-Google autonomous car guys want to make semi trucks drive themselves, Twitter looks at shaking up the length of a tweet, and Nvidia is ready for VR.