Four(ish) stories (and a couple of tech product/service recommendations) for your listening pleasure. We cover autonomous big rigs (and why Sanjay has dumped Uber), underwater data centers, the house of cards of a startup, and the location of the impending intergalactic alien invasion.

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Links:

• Embark’s self-driving truck is ready to assist human drivers | TechCrunch
• Reflecting on one very, very strange year at Uber — Susan J. Fowler
• Want an Energy-Efficient Data Center? Build It Underwater - IEEE Spectrum
• Theranos: The House of Cards That Elizabeth Holmes Built
• Astronomers discover 7 Earth-sized planets orbiting nearby star - CNN.com