Iain Thomson from The Register joins Jason Howell to talk about Uber's announcement that it will halt its San Francisco pilot program for its self driving vehicles after revoking Uber's registration for 16 of its autonomous vehicles. Uber says it will redeploy its vehicles elsewhere.

Google confirmed that it plans to launch two new flagship wearable devices in the first quarter of 2017 along with Android Wear 2.0. The new lineup of watches will be OEM branded after a collaboration with Google.

Microsoft signed a $927 million dollar contract with the US Department of Defense, providing IT support to the US Defense Information Systems Agency. Microsoft will not in fact be opening up its source code to the DoD, which was originally reported when the story broke.

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg and COO Sheryl Sandberg held a live video end of year sit down to look back at 2016 and during the chat, Zuckerberg said the company is "not a traditional media company", a change from its opposition to the term in recent years.

Canada's telecom regulator declared that high-speed internet is in fact a basic service, and all Canadian citizens are therefore entitled to broadband internet services. Speed mandates are set at 50 megabits per second down and 10 megabits per second up, 10 times faster than current targets.

• Sam Machkovech from Ars Technica discusses gender roles in Super Mario Run, the Friday the 13th video game that's faithful to the movie's heritage, and a review of the new Assassin's Creed film.

Hosts: Jason Howell and Iain Thomson

Guest: Sam Machkovech

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