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Tech Deep Dive podcast: Google's self-driving car, Amazon boots Apple TV


SAN FRANCISCO - A frenzied week of tech news ended with a spirited podcast in our bureau here on Friday.

Reporter Marco della Cava gave us the inside scoop on what it's like to be chauffeured by one of Google's self-driving cars.

Columnist Bob O'Donnell, founder and chief analyst at TECHnalysis Research, talked about Amazon's plan to give Apple TV and Google's Chromecast the heave-ho at the end of the month.

Mark S. Luckie, Twitter's former manager of news, discussed his new novel, DO U, and what it's like to be Black in Silicon Valley.

Aarthi Ramamurthy, founder of Lumoid, described their Room of Drones and the company's try-it-out concept.

Cybersecurity reporter Elizabeth Weise gave the lowdown on the exciting start of National Cybersecurity Awareness Month, which began with a bang — a hack of Experian that exposed as many as 15 million T-Mobile customers' information.