CNN BUSINESS | These GameStop traders struck gold. Then came the hard part.

(CNN) – Best friends AJ Vanover and George “Rash” Adams were once making $35,000 a year working together at a battery store in rural Missouri. But a bet on GameStop last year changed their lives. So what happens after you strike market gold? –watch–

CNN politics | Hackers breached Florida health care system, potentially exposing data on 1.3 million people

(CNN) – Hackers breached the computer networks of a southeast Florida health care system in October and may have accessed sensitive personal and financial information on over 1.3 million people, the health care system announced this week.

Social Security numbers, patient medical history and bank account information are among the data that have been exposed in the breach of Broward Health, a network of over 30 health care facilities serving patients across roughly 2 million-person Broward County, Florida, according to a notice the health care provider filed with the Office of the Maine Attorney General.

About 470 of the data breach victims live in Maine. Like other states, Maine law requires organizations that hold state residents’ personal data to file a disclosure when they’ve been hacked.  –read more– 

HGTV | 100 Beautiful Kitchen Island Inspiration Ideas

Explore pictures of gorgeous kitchen islands for layout ideas and design inspiration ranging from traditional to unique.  –view gallery–  

CNN Opinion | Why this modified pig heart transplant is a huge deal

(CNN) – The news last week that David Bennett, a 57-year-old Maryland man, nearing death, had undergone cardiac transplant surgery with a genetically modified pig heart sent shock waves through the medical community and was hailed as a breakthrough in bioengineering, potentially ushering in a new era in solid organ transplantation. While our experience with this technology is still developing and much more research needs to be done, the operation and bravura science that made it possible provide a breathtaking glimpse into a future where patients will potentially spend days rather than months or years on a transplant list.   –read more– 

CNBC make it | Bill Gates has ‘never been a big New Year’s resolution person’ — why that’s smart, according to a clinical psychologist

Plenty of people make New Year’s resolutions. Bill Gates isn’t one of them.

“I’ve never been a big New Year’s resolution person. I don’t have any specific goal in mind for 2022,” the 66-year-old billionaire Microsoft co-founder wrote in his annual end-of-year blog post last month. “But what I do hope is that next year is a lot more settled than this one.”

Instead of setting goals for the coming year, Gates asks himself a series of questions that help him take “stock of [his] work and personal life,” according to his 2018 “Year in Review” essay. What went wrong over the past year? What went right? What does he hope for over the next 365 days?  –read more–  

CNN entertainment | Sidney Poitier, Oscar-winning actor and Hollywood’s first Black movie star, dies at 94

(CNN) – Sidney Poitier, whose elegant bearing and principled onscreen characters made him Hollywood’s first Black movie star and the first Black man to win the best actor Oscar, has died. He was 94.

Clint Watson, press secretary for the Prime Minister of the Bahamas, confirmed to CNN that Poitier died Thursday evening.

Poitier overcame an impoverished background in the Bahamas and softened his thick island accent to rise to the top of his profession at a time when prominent roles for Black actors were rare. He won the Oscar for 1963’s “Lilies of the Field,” in which he played an itinerant laborer who helps a group of White nuns build a chapel.  –read more–

Bleacher Report | Rafael Nadal on Novak Djokovic Being Held in Australia: ‘He Knew the Conditions’

Rafael Nadal stressed the importance of vaccines and said Novak Djokovic knew what the rules were ahead of the Australian Open when he was asked about the situation surrounding the No. 1 men’s player in the world ahead of the tournament.

Tumaini Carayol of the Guardian shared Nadal’s comments:  –read more–