Another week in Tech has come and gone but what have we got to show for it? Well we’ve got the launch of the worlds first driverless taxis at London’s Heathrow Airport. We’ve talked about the tiny little automated pods that transport you from the business car park into Terminal 5 in only five minutes before, but now, if you happen to live in or around London, you too can go have a play in them. Pity they’re not in central London, maybe they would be a cheaper and safer alternative to the dodgy mini cabs on the way home from a night out.

We’ve heard that console gaming makes you a natural born UAV pilot, but now the US Air Force is taking their love of the PS3 to the next level and by ordering another 2200 PS3s to joining the 300 or so they were already using. Instead of practising their skills in Modern Warfare 2, they’ve been using them for HD video processing and wanted to boost the power of their PS3 cluster. It’s not the first time people have been using PS3 as processing clusters, after all the Folding@Home team have been using the distributed computing model on the PS3 in exactly that way in your own homes.

Talking about the PS3 and it’s Cell processor, I don’t know whether anyone’s told the USAF but, IBM is set to discontinue it’s line of PowerPC based Cell processors with it’s current PowerXCell-8i model. What this means for the next generation PlayStation is unclear, would Sony take the Cell chip in house or whether IBM will take the Cell line of chips in another direction? Never fear though, the current gen PS3 won’t be affected.

Retail giant, Tesco, announced this week that it’ll start selling Apple’s golden child, the iPhone, on it’s MVNO Tesco Mobile. It’s the fourth carrier to confirm that the iPhone will be gracing it’s network, although Tesco Mobile uses O2’s network so don’t think you’ll get better 3G coverage. Tesco already has several relatively cheap unlimited everything plans with texts, calls and data all included. If their current price plans are mimicked on their iPhone offerings, Tesco Mobile might be the way to go for the best value iPhone tariffs. Besides, now you can pick one up whilst you’re getting your soap, toilet duck and bog roll. How glamorous.

Talking of iPhones, the humble rickrolling iPhone worm evolved. Two new malicious variants of the worm have emerged, one that steals your ING Direct banking details and one that turns your pocket pal into a botnet zombie. Brilliant! Apple’s response? We told you it could happen, tough luck, don’t jailbreak your iPhone. The worms spread via WiFi or cellular networks between jailbroken iPhones with SSH installed and default root passwords. A rookie mistake not changing your root password, but if you’re not so ofay with the whole jailbreak process you might not even know that every iPhone has a default root password that basically allows someone nefarious to do anything they like with your precious iPhone without your knowledge. So if you’re rocking a jailbroken iPhone then download mobile Terminal and change your root password pronto!

That’s it for this week, hope you all had a good Thanksgiving and got some decent bargains today. Don’t forget, if you’re after a deal or two, you might find Cyber Monday rocks almost as many good and realistic deals this year as Black Friday.