Our News Roundup this week covers three topics. We start with a second week in a row of Amazon news, this time the announcement of a drone-based delivery trial in Cambridge, England. Next, we discuss a couple of pieces of news about autonomous driving – Google’s restructuring of its self-driving car efforts into Waymo, a separate entity under the Alphabet umbrella, and Uber’s self-driving cab testing in San Francisco. Lastly, the news of yet another massive Yahoo hack.

Our usual Question of the Week segment this week becomes Questions of the Year, as our way of looking back on 2016. We answer a set of questions about the year that’s ending soon, from what surprised us the most this year to which companies we changed our minds about during the year. Next week, we’ll follow up with predictions for 2017 (and a review of last year’s predictions for 2016).

Our short third segment is a quick discussion of Apple’s delayed AirPods launch and the AirPods themselves, which Jan has been using this week.

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Show notes:

Here are some useful links relating to this week’s episode:

• News Roundup:
  • Amazon’s drone delivery project, Prime Air.
  • Alphabet’s new Waymo unit and Uber’s SF trial
  • Yahoo hack announcement.

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