Samsung thinks it’s solved the mystery of the exploding Note 7, Sprint grabs a new business partner, SpaceX returns to work and oh, cars might fly soon. On this week’s episode, El Kaiser and J.D. dive into a pile of tech-news headlines before Apple-watcher Don Donofrio drops by to discuss the company’s 2016 efforts.

* Galaxy Note 7 fires caused by battery and design flaws, Samsung says (The New York Times)

* Galaxy Note7: What we discovered (Samsung Global Newsroom)

* Failure Analysis of Samsung Note 7 (UL)

* Samsung Galaxy S8 release date rumored to be scheduled for April 15 (Tech Times)

* Trump appoints anti-regulation Net Neutrality enemy to head FCC (Gizmodo)

* The SEC is reportedly investigating why Yahoo took so long to disclose that it was hacked (TechCrunch)

* Yahoo postpones close of Verizon transaction to Q2 2017, citing work needed (VentureBeat)

* Sprint acquires 33 percent of TIDAL and creates game-changing partnership (Sprint Newsroom)

* Ringing in 2017 with updates to our Google Voice apps (Google blog)

* Saving you bandwidth on Google+ through machine learning (Google blog)

* A new generation of Chromebooks, designed for millions of students and educators (Google)

* All Chromebooks debuting in 2017 and beyond will run Android apps (Ars Technica)

* Announcing Intune for Education & new Windows 10 PCs for school starting at $189 (Windows blog)

* Mac sales declined nearly 10% last year as Lenovo, Dell and others gained ground (9to5Mac)

* App Store app prices to rise in the UK by >25% following Brexit exchange rate fluctuation...