There’s never a dull moment in tech. Elon Musk and Ford CEO Jim Farley got into it on Twitter yesterday after a new Ford advertisement seemingly tossed shade at Tesla’s Autopilot. Heads up:The real lead here is that Ford’s new BlueCruise kit, a driverless car system, will launch on certain Mustang and F-150 models. Can we all take a moment to recognize how awesome the idea of an autonomous Mustang in the future is?...

While 99% of you are stuck here on Earth like a herd of disgusting millionaires – or worse, actualpoorpeople – a bunch of billionaires have spent their summer preparing for jaunts into the inky black beyond. Honest question:who cares? I love spaceas much as the next person. And I think it’s amazing that humans have managed to ascend beyond the clouds and into the very stars we’ve gazed upon from the moment our ancestors slithered out of the primordial ooze and began developing the iPhone....

Accordingto ComScore, for the first time in six months, Bing failed to grow its search market share in the US during a one month period. Microsoft directly controlled some 14.7% of the market in September. This news comes at a time in which there has been much speculation and hand wringing over thestaggering sumsof money that Bing loses for Microsoft. That Bing has stalled, at least temporarily, puts tremendous pressure on the Bing team to show to Microsoft’s investors that their project is worth the balance sheet damage that it has caused thus far....

Note that the title doesnotread: “Bing just released a Foursquarekillerfor Windows Phone.” They didn’t. Instead, Binghas releaseda new application called ‘We’re In’ that has the potential to let each of the four WP7 users in every city hang out together. Actually, people who don’t have the application (read: everyone who does not have a WP7 handset, so nearly everyone), can in fact use its mobile web version, but that is not nearly as much fun....

In a stunning move of corporate cooperation, Bing has teamed up with Facebook to deeply integrate the social giant into not just into its search results, but into its search algorithms, fundamentally changing the way it will create results. Accordingto Microsoft: “The best decisions are not just fueled by facts, they require the opinions and emotions of your friends. Search is now more than a fact finder — [In this update] we’re marrying fact-based search results with your friends’ street smarts to combine the best data on the Web with the opinions of the people you trust the most and the collective IQ of the Web....