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This week on AwesomeCast 279, we're sharing our tech highlights from 2015 and making our predictions for 2016 in addition to our usual talk about awesome things in technology, including:

We have a full studio tonight! Chilla, Sorg, Katie, Will, and Doug - and Cynthia via remote!
\nAwesome Thing Of The Year time! Chilla is telling us about how the Apple Watch beat the rest.
\nInstacontent is Dudders' Awesome Thing Of The Year contribution.
\nDoug is giving it back to Sling TV by nominating it as his Awesome Thing Of The Year.
\nWill is on board with cordcutters as his Awesome Thing Of The Year.
\nComedy Central is great for cordcutters with their accessibility.
\nCynthia shares her Awesome Thing Of The Year - crowdfunding and how it helps make dreams and ideas possible.
\nWe joked about how we all would name Slack as our unanimous Awesome Thing Of The Year.
\nWe're talking about message read notifications (i.e. Facebook).
\nDiscussing severe inbox OCD with Doug.
\nWhat happened to YikYak? Dudders is revisiting her favorite app of last year.
\nSorg's Awesome Thing Of The Year is VR (as he pulls out his Google Cardbord).
\nShout out to Looking For Group and the fun Sorg had with their Oculus yesterday.
\nYou want to tune in - Dudders is playing with the Google Cardboard.
\nIt's time for 2016 predictions!
\nWe lied! First, we're going to check in on what predictions were made last year - and whether they happened.
\nNow for 2016 predictions!
\nDudders is calling for pet communication technology in 2016.
\nChilla is predicting AI advancement outside of apps and developed directly in products.
\nWill is predicting Apple will be innovators again - something new and interesting for iPhone7.
\nDoug believes 2016 will bring the first mainstream network podcast TV show.
\nCynthia's Holiday PSA: Help parents and grandparents sign up for Netflix this holiday season.
\nAnd, in conjunction with her PSA, Cynthia is predicting a switch to a Netflix-like platform in general.
\nSorg is making a bold prediction that tablets will outsell PCs in 2016.
\nAfter the show remember to:

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