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The Morning After: Hyundai may be giving up on the combustion engine Welcome back to The Morning After. Hope you had a great weekend and are ready for 2021 to be over and done with. (I know I am.) Today, we’ve drawn together the latest tech news from the last few days and several end-of-year pieces on the biggest stories of the year. Continue Reading . . . https://www.engadget.com/the-morning-after-hyundai-may-have-given-up-on-the-combustion-engine-123440502.html

10 weird, but essential, additions to any survival kit This story was originally featured on Field & Stream. If you fire up your favorite search engine and hunt for a list of survival kit components, you’ll find that most of them repeat the same things over and over. Continue Reading . . . https://www.popsci.com/story/diy/unusual-survival-kit-items/

Another T-Mobile cyberattack reportedly exposed customer info and SIMs T-Mobile has suffered another cyberattack after being rocked by a massive data breach in August. This time around, attackers accessed “a small number of” customers’ accounts, according to documents posted by The T-Mo Report. Continue Reading . . . https://www.theverge.com/2021/12/28/22857619/t-mobile-cyberattack-data-breach-december-2021-cpni-sim-swap

Samsung resumes Android 12 rollout, updates some foldables, and more S21s Samsung is starting to roll out its Android 12-based One UI 4 update again after the company paused its original release due to reports of bugs and soft bricks from users, according to XDA Developers. Continue Reading . . . https://www.theverge.com/2021/12/28/22857057/samsung-android-12-galaxy-s21-z-flip-fold-one-ui-4

NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope is about to transform into its final form NASA’s incredibly powerful James Webb Space Telescope has been in space for three days now, but perhaps the riskiest part of its journey to deep space is just getting underway. Continue Reading . . . https://www.theverge.com/2021/12/28/22816310/nasa-james-webb-space-telescope-jwst-deployment-sequence

HBO Max offers first look at Westworld season 4, Barry, and the 2022 release slate The Dec. 22 premiere of The Matrix Resurrections on HBO Max concludes a risky year in which all of WarnerMedia’s major theatrical releases simultaneously hit the streaming platform. The results of the experiment are a great unknown; few of Warner Bros. Pictures’ movies took off at the U.S. Continue Reading . . . https://www.polygon.com/22849990/hbo-max-2022-releases-westworld-season-4-house-of-dragon-barry

NASA has finally launched the James Webb Space Telescope At long last, NASA has launched the James Webb Space Telescope. On Christmas morning, the telescope launched from Europe’s Spaceport in French Guiana on an Arianespace Ariane 5 rocket after 14 years of development and a number of delays. Continue Reading . . . https://www.engadget.com/nasa-james-webb-space-telescope-launch-123452649.html