This week, has the glow come off Tesla‘s perfect record?, the first iPhone jailbreaker has hacked self-driving cars, it’s time for drones to be registered, a fresh batch of data breaches, and streaming music just got a little more Fab … all this and more on this week’s The Drill Down podcast.

Podcast

What We’re Playing With

Andy: Automatic, diagnosing my 2008 Mac Pro, Steam Link
Dwayne: Roomba 880, The Shannara Chronicles
Tosin: BB8 by Sphero

Headlines

• Two-Thirds of Earliest Tesla Drivetrains To Need Replacement In 60,000 Miles, Owner Data Suggests
  • ‘Welcome back, baby’: Elon Musk celebrates SpaceX rocket launch – and landing
• Early iPhone hacker George Hotz is building a self-driving system using off-the-shelf components
  • Tesla argues George Hotz’s homemade self-driving car won’t succeed
• Google Pairs With Ford To Build Self-Driving Cars

Audible Book of the Week

• Star Wars: The Force Awakens by Alan Dean Foster
• Sign up at AudibleTrial.com/TheDrillDown

Music Break: Flying by The Beatles

Hot Topics

• FAA announces drone owners must register by February 19th, 2016
  • The FAA’s Drone Registration Site Is Now Up And Running
• Database leak exposes 3.3 million Hello Kitty fans
  • Dwayne went to the Hello Kitty Exhibit at the Seattle EMP
• Dangerous ‘back door’ in software used by US govt was caused by NSA
• Database configuration issues expose 191 million voter records

Music Break: Come Together by The Beatles

Final Word

• Beatles arrive on Apple, Spotify, Amazon, Google Christmas Eve
  • The Beatles’ songs are played 50 million times in the first 48 hours of their music being available to stream online

The Drill Down Video of the Week

• Louis Vuitton Enlists ‘Final Fantasy’ Character As New Model

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Geeks Of Doom’s The Drill Down is a roundtable-style audio podcast where we discuss the most important issues of the week, in tech and on the web and how they affect us all.

Hosts are Geeks of Doom contributor Andrew Sorcini (Mr. BabyMan), marketing research analyst Dwayne De Freitas, and Box tech consultant Tosin Onafowokan.