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California is laying the groundwork to regulate self-driving cars, according to new regulations the state's DMV published on Friday.

The state plans to allow for testing of fully driverless cars on public road by the end of the year. Now vehicles need to have controls like a steering wheel and pedals and a safety driver who can take over when needed, but that will no longer be the case if manufacturers meet federal standards or get an exemption. Driverless cars will need a remote operator who can monitor their operation and communicate with passengers.

High demand: There are already more than two dozen companies testing self-driving technology in California, including Alphabet's Waymo, Tesla, and Uber, which obtained its permit this week after a disagreement with DMV.

Uber, which earlier this week said it will seek to hire a COO to help chief executive Travis Kalanick steer the ship, has settled on headhunting firm Heidrick & Struggles for the job, as Business Insider reported and Uber confirmed to Axios.

Track record: Heidrick & Struggles is responsible for the hiring of several high-profile executives, including Eric Schmidt as CEO of Google in 2001, and Satya Nadella as CEO of Microsoft in 2014.

The story has been corrected to show that Business Insider, not CNBC, first reported the news.

The president has quite a habit of reposting material he learned on far-right media, and now the AP is picking up another example: his claim that former President Obama wiretapped Trump Tower.

It came from Breitbart, which reprinted a claim from radio host Mark Levin. That was then picked up by the White House, and a staffer placed that piece in Trump's daily reading pile, according to a White House official who wouldn't speak publicly to the AP, citing a lack of willingness to talk about Trump's private routine on the record. Trump reportedly read that story on Saturday, and then started to tweet.

Waymo, Alphabet's self-driving car unit, has asked a federal judge in California for a preliminary injunction to block Uber's self-driving car project, according to new court documents obtained by news outlets.

Expert testimony: Waymo also filed the sworn testimony of Gary Brown, a forensic security engineer at Google since 2013, according to The Verge. Brown says that according to logs from Google's secure network, Anthony Levandowski, a Google engineer who left the company to start the self-driving car startup Uber acquired last year, downloaded 14,000 files from Google containing proprietary information before leaving the company in early 2016. Brown also names two other engineers, Radu Raduta and Sameer Kshirsagar, who he claims also downloaded proprietary files before leaving Google to join Levandowski.

In late February, Waymo filed a lawsuit against Levandowski's startup and Uber, claiming they stole intellectual property from Google.

What to watch: Uber has called the lawsuit "baseless," so it's likely to try to prove that its own technology is different from Waymo's. Last year, in an interview with Forbes, Levandowski emphasized his team didn't steal any intellectual property from Google and it has "all the logs" to show that.

Facebook has landed a deal with the MLS and Univision Deportes that gives the network exclusive rights to stream the 2017 Major League Soccer regular season matches in English, reports TechCrunch. The streams will also include Facebook commentators, interactive graphics, a fan Q&A and polling features that will enable users to engage with the commentators during the games.

Why this matters: The deal is pretty significant for Facebook, which has been competing with Twitter and other social networks to gain streaming rights to major league sports. And just last month, Reuters reported that the company is also in talks with Major League Baseball to live stream one game per week during the upcoming season.