After a tumultuous 12 months in tech, culture and politics, this annus horribilis (as many found it) is finally on the way out the door. On this last episode of the year, El Kaiser and J.D. discuss the week’s tech news before exploring the highlights, lowlights and other notable events of 2016. Thanks for listening this year, Jammers, and we’ll be back in 2017!

Links to This Week’s Stories

* CES 2017 rumor roundup (TrustedReviews.com)

* Smart Living: Consumer expectations for smart home technology (Consumer Technology Association)

* Brick-and-mortar is out, brick-and-mobile is in (Consumer Technology Association)

* ASUS releases CES 2017 ZenFone video teaser, new phone (phoneArena.com)

* Samsung claims sleek new laptops are lightest on market, at just 1.8lbs (Ars Technica)

* New Galaxy S8 leak highlights Samsung’s big decision (Forbes)

* How Apple alienated Mac loyalists (Bloomberg)

* Apple extends discounts on USB-C adapters and accessories until March 31 (MacRumors)

* Apple AirPods teardown (iFixit)

* AirPods teardown reveals charging case may have been cause of delay (MacRumors)

* Apple’s Tim Cook assures employees that it is committed to the Mac and that ‘great desktops’ are coming (TechCrunch)

* LinkedIn resets some Lynda.com users’ passwords following data leak (Venturebeat)

* Yahoo says 1 billion user accounts were hacked (The New York Times)

* Airbnb is building a flight-booking tool (Bloomberg)

* Amazon Fire tablets updated with kids’ reading app, Amazon Rapids, and a more powerful Alexa (TechCrunch)

* Building Jarvis (Mark...