Dec. 14, 2016

Biggest Tech Failures and Successes of 2016

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If you love technology, it may be time for a group hug: This year has been rough for consumer technology.

From exploding smartphones and hoverboards to the proliferation of fake news on social media, many of our tech hardware, software and web products suffered embarrassing failures. Behemoths like Google, Facebook and Samsung Electronics were on the firing line as a result.

Yet the year was not entirely bleak. There were major strides in several areas of consumer tech, including Wi-Fi, virtual reality and encryption.

What follows is a year in review on the tech that needed the most fixing, and the tech that was actually fixed in 2016.