On this week’s podcast, The Drill Down co-host emeritus Tom Cheredar joins us as Microsoft gets cozy with creators, AT&T buys Time Warner, the Nintendo Switch, is your webcam part of a botnet?, a self-driving beer truck, Young Lando Calrissian, are aliens talking to us from space? … and much, much more!

This week’s Drill Down podcast, Russia hacks U.S. elections, the Samsung Galaxy Note is toast, Amazon comes to your corner, President Obama sends us to Mars!… and much, much.

On this week’s Drill Down podcast, the largest hack of all time, Twitter & SoundCloud may have new owners, Apple plans its own version of the Echo, Snapchat makes a Spectacle of itself, humans are one flight closer to Mars … and much, much more.

In case you missed it last night, SpaceX founder Elon Musk made a big speech at the 67th International Astronautical Congress in Guadalajara, Mexico. His goal? To present a plan for colonizing the planet Mars and the possibility of human beings becoming a multi-planetary species as something that’s actually attainable, maybe even in the fairly near future.

Read more on potentially historical step forward below, and find a video of what a trip to Mars might look like along with the full Musk presentation video if you wish to watch it.

This week, The Drill Down co-host emeritus Tom Cheredar joins us for our rundown of Apple‘s September 7th event, including a new Apple Watch and the iPhone 7. Also, Sony‘s new Playstation 4 Pro, YouTubers freak out about censorship & monetization, SpaceX destroys Facebook‘s satellite, and much, much more.