Tech Roundup: Amazon Flying Warehouse, French "Right to Disconnect" & More

2016 has come and gone. As we step into another year with full of dreams and expectations, let's take a look at some of the 2016's biggest tech winners and losers -

Winners of 2016 - Apple, Alphabet, Microsoft, Amazon and Facebook for becoming the tech superpowers, improvements in the field of artificial intelligence and virtual reality, Google Pixel and Xiaomi Mi Mix for making people sit up and take notice of smartphones once again, Snap Spectacles for proving the cooleth of a wearable, Microsoft's Surface Studio for redefining an all-in-one PC, the advances in self-driving technology from Tesla, Google and Uber, Apple's battle with FBI over privacy on iOS after San Bernardino shooting, Amazon's cashier-free grocery shopping.

Losers of 2016 - The whole fake news controversy, Facebook's U-turn over merging of Facebook and WhatsApp data, everything about Yahoo! and its billion user data breach, Twitter's struggle for existence, the fading allure of a smartwatch, Samsung Galaxy Note 7 battery fiasco and its bungled recall, Apple's courageous move to get rid of headphone jack in iPhone 7 and its poor handling of battery complaints with the new MacBook Pro, Uber's legal and regulatory roadblocks and its wishy-washy relationship with drivers, Amazon's poor working conditions at Scottish warehouse, music streaming exclusivity wars, Google's continuing scattershot approach towards social messaging.

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