Judge Asks Prosecutors to Investigate Uber's Driverless Car Program

A judge asked federal prosecutors to investigate Uber Technologies Inc. and one of its engineers for potential theft of trade secrets from Google, heightening the stakes of a legal battle between Uber and Google parent Alphabet Inc. over driverless-car technology. U.S. District Judge William Alsup in San Francisco also temporarily blocked a limited part of Uber's driverless-car program, which Google alleges benefited from the stolen trade secrets. Also Thursday, Judge Alsup determined that the lawsuit Google filed against...