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Last week, we had to read the sad story of the death of two men that were traveling in a Tesla that left the road athigh speed, and crashed into a tree. It subsequently burst into flames, it took firefighters hours to subdue the blaze. It’s believed that Autopilot was engaged at the time, andlocal media reportsthat no one was in the driver’s seat. The men, one aged 59 and the other 69, were reportedly in the front and rear passenger seats of the vehicle....

If you’ve been caught in the crashy, buggy, no-full-screen hell of Chrome on a Mac lately, there’s good news. According to Google,Chrome 14 is out, stable and ready to fix your problems. While there are fixes across all platforms, it’s the Mac users that should be happiest today: For all web pages, Chrome uses Lion’soverlay scrollbars, which appear only while you’re scrolling. We’ve also added initial support for Lion’sfull-screen mode, triggered by a full-screen button or Ctrl+Shift+F....

“Filipinos account for a lot of views in the Southeast Asia with tens of millions of views in a day.” This statement comes from Adam Smith, Google’s Director of Product Management, in response to the launch of YouTube’s first localized service in Southeast Asia. Is it surprising that YouTube has chosen to launch in the Philippines? Probably not, when taking into account just how powerful the traffic coming in from this area actually is....

Steve Rubel is one of the keynote speakers atThe Next web Conference 2011. He is Director of Insights forEdelman Digital, a division ofEdelman, the world’s largest public relations firm. Steve studies trends and innovations in media, technology and digital culture and actively shares his observations and insights atsteverubel.com, his monthlyAdvertising Age column, and onTwitterwith his 50,000+ followers. I asked Steve some questions about his ideas on the future of the web and we talked about partying, focus, Charlie Sheen and The Laws of Attention among other things....

I love the idea of a waterproof iPhone, I long for the day when manufacturers figure out a way to just make devices impervious to water without having to wrap a bulky case around them – but until then the LifeProof case is probably the closest we’re going to get. Most waterproof cases for anything are pretty bulky and force you to pay for your protection with size and weight. TheLifeProof casefor iPhone 4 is the polar opposite, with a super thin and light profile that barely increases the size of your phone at all....