By Steve Huff 10/09/12 10:50am

15 Minutes Into the Future

Elon Musk (Photo: Mark Lennihan/AP)

Old-School Car Dealers Whining That Tesla Dealerships are Illegal

Elon Musk‘s aerospace venture is off to a good start with the recent launch of SpaceX’s Dragon cargo ship, but his Tesla stores selling expensive electric Model S sedans are running into problems with fossil-fueled competitors.

Several state associations of auto dealers are invoking older laws protecting conventional methods of selling cars by claiming the way Tesla sells cars is unfair to other dealers and possibly even illegal. Here’s one example out of several cited by Automotive News: Read More

By Steve Huff 9/14/12 6:32pm

Planet Google

Still from a trailer for Innocence of Muslims

Google Refuses White House Plea to Remove Controversial Anti-Muslim Video

Google will not delete an inflammatory video currently playing a role in Muslim protests around the world, in spite of a take-down request from the White House.

The search giant is only censoring Innocence of Muslims in India, Indonesia, Egypt and Libya, where violent and deadly protests have broken out following the video’s translation into Arabic. Reuters reports on the company’s legalistic explanation for not just wiping the video completely from the web: Read More