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The best and worst technologies of 2025

This year proved that artificial intelligence can be useful and private -- if we insist on it.

Two robots on a teeter totter.
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It’s my annual tradition to take stock of big themes in technology, with a focus on positive developments for you in the past year. Here is the tally of the mostly good, but occasionally crummy, year in technology for 2025.

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