Mashable Tech – Spoken Edition

There's nothing more unsettling than having your smartphone stolen from you. Your conduit to the connected world is severed, sure, but that's just the immediate problem. Your phone probably holds more information about you than any other device — photos, contacts, messages and notes — all of which are now in the hands of someone who might try to exploit you. It's not a happy thought.

Sure, you may have had a hard time adjusting to the dongle/AirPods lifestyle ever since the iPhone 7 came out this fall. But now that you and your 7 have gotten to know each other, you're feeling confident that this is the phone you want to commit to (for the next year, at least). And as an adult in the year 2016, you probably have a bunch of old iPhones laying around. And if you're anything like us, you probably want to get rid of them.

Mashable Choice highlights the best of everything we cover, have experienced first-hand and would recommend to others. I work the old-fashioned way: Chair below me, desk in front of me and my laptop on a platform raised high enough that I hope I don't get a permanent crick in my neck. My co-workers, though, manage a dizzying assortment of work styles, that include couch lounging, cubby reclining and standing desks.

Human beings have sent all sort of things into space, from Luke Skywalker's lightsaber to Lego mini-figures of Galileo and the Roman deities Jupiter and Juno, or even a pizza. Now it's the turn of a meat and potato pie, to boldly go where no pie has gone before. Well, sort of. Ahead of the World Pie Eating Championships, the tasty pastry was launched into the stratosphere from Wigan, north-west England.

LONDON — Move aside Monopoly. And charades for that matter. The game everyone will be playing this party season is Tinder. Yes, Tinder. Tinder just announced the launch of its app on Apple TV, which means you can now bring your swiping to an Apple TV screen and enjoy it with friends. It's the dating site's first move away from mobile devices in an effort to make the app a more collaborative experience. And by 'collaborative', we mean PARTY.

In 2016, even Australia was unsure why it was competing in the Eurovision song contest. The country is, after all, a long way from Europe. "Why is Australia in Eurovision?" was the sixth most popular "why is...?" search in Australia in 2016, according to Google's data.

President-Elect Donald Trump may want to ask his 10-year-old son about how hacking really works. The CIA is now pretty sure that the Russians hacked the Presidential election, not by attacking voting booths and polling places, but through the Democratic National Committee email hack that promoted the slow, steady release of embarrassing emails, which may have swayed public sentiment, if not the vote. But Donald Trump isn't having any of it.

Let the Apple fanboy freakouts commence: we might be in line for a brand-new iPhone color. According to Japanese Apple blog Macotakara, a site that's had a decent track record on Apple rumors, the 2017 version of the flagship device will be available in a red casing option. The outlet was also the first to float rumors of the removal of the headphone jack in the iPhone 7. That news, of course, wound up being very true (and a very big deal).

Once again, Facebook's being recognized as an incredible place to work. Glassdoor's annual list ranks it as the number one tech company to work for, based on the last year in employee reviews. Lori Goler, who's worked at Facebook since 2008 and serves as their "Head of People," is, of course, one of the people the company can thank for that. She's overseen Facebook's growth from 500 employees to more than 14,500 across 50 offices in 30 countries.

Apple just revealed the most downloaded apps of 2016 and the top spot should come as little surprise to those who have been paying attention: Snapchat. As if we needed more proof that Evan Spiegel's app was having its best year ever, Snapchat beat out Facebook, Instagram and Pokémon Go to be the most-downloaded free app in the App Store in 2016, according to Apple.