We started this year full of energy and hope, eager to escape the dumpster fire that was 2017.
2018s been a hell of a ride, with plenty of ups, downs, and unexpected twists.
Lets take a closer look at the crazy year that was in tech.
Introducing the first Pizza Hut fully autonomous delivery concept vehicle.
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The analytics firm stole 50 million users data through a personality quiz app.
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If this wasnt enough,Ubers self-driving car killed a woman in Arizona statein the US.
While the car was in the autonomous mode, it had a human safety driver at the steering wheel.
May
May was an action-packed month, as we started things off with Googles I/O developer conference.
Its now begunrolling out to Pixel phonesin the US.
Despite that, the FCCs rules against net neutrality kicked in a month later.
In big business news,Adobe purchased ecommerce CMS giant Magnetofor $1.68 billion.
Its customers include Canon and Rosetta Stone.
And in a bit of sad news,content curation and discovery site StumbleUponclosed down.
On May 25, General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR)started rolling out across the European Union.
This move was certainly a big win for the company in its quest to establish itself asan open-source-friendly organization.
Fine of 4,34 bn to@Googlefor 3 types of illegal restrictions on the use of Android.
In this way it has cemented the dominance of its search engine.
Denying rivals a chance to innovate and compete on the merits.
Its illegal under EU antitrust rules.
As of now,Microsoft is the most valuable tech companyon the planet.
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September
This was a jam-packed month.
The EU parliament voted onthe controversial copyright reform popularly known as the meme ban.
That means it can also affectmemes, YouTube videos, and sports images.
High-tech medical startupTheranos finally shut down its fraudulent blood testing business.
Uber finally had to pay for its security lapse in 2016.
In August, Musk jokingly tweeted that if Tesla shared touched $420, hed take the company private.
Am considering taking Tesla private at $420.
Elon Musk (@elonmusk)August 7, 2018
Facebook had a crappy September too.
The company declared that29 million users data was leakedbecause of a bug.
What the fuck, Zuck?
They said they planned to recharge their batteries and work on a new project soon.
October also marked one year anniversary of the #MeToo movement online.
To celebrate this,Google built an interactive mapto show the effect of the campaign across the world.
In some positive news for Tesla(finally!
), itsurpassed Mercedez-Benz sales figuresin the US between July and September.
A Forbes report also pointed out that its about to overtake BMW as well.
Credit: Samsung
Samsungslapped four cameras on the back of a phone, because why not?
NASA landed itsInSight probe on Mars surface.
It has a dedicated twitter handle so you might keep up on what its doing.
Aaah…soaking up the Sun with my solar panels.
(Like, literally.)
That party wound up soon enough, asthe cryptocurrencys value dipped below the $4,500mark in November.
We can totally see them competing for this crown in 2019, just like the old days!
December
Another month, another reason to hate Facebook.
The company disclosed that a bug caused6.8 million users photos to be exposedto developers and third-party apps in September.
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It wasnt the only social web link under fire.
Not in the least.
That’s one heck of a mixed bag.
He likes to say “Bleh.
That’s one heck of a mixed bag.
He likes to say “Bleh.”
