{"id":204738,"date":"2026-01-15T15:56:13","date_gmt":"2026-01-15T15:56:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?p=204738"},"modified":"2026-01-15T15:56:13","modified_gmt":"2026-01-15T15:56:13","slug":"the-8-worst-technology-flops-of-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?p=204738","title":{"rendered":"The 8 worst technology flops of 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Welcome to our annual list of the worst, least successful, and simply dumbest technologies of the year. This year, politics was a recurring theme. Donald Trump swept back into office and used his executive pen to reshape the fortunes of entire sectors, from renewables to cryptocurrency&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.technologyreview.com\/2025\/12\/18\/1130106\/the-8-worst-technology-flops-of-2025\/\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Welcome to our annual list of the worst, least successful, and simply dumbest technologies of<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":204739,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-204738","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-tech"],"featured_image_urls":{"full":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/204738-the-8-worst-technology-flops-of-2025.jpg",1200,600,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/204738-the-8-worst-technology-flops-of-2025-150x150.jpg",150,150,true],"medium":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/204738-the-8-worst-technology-flops-of-2025-300x150.jpg",300,150,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/204738-the-8-worst-technology-flops-of-2025-768x384.jpg",640,320,true],"large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/204738-the-8-worst-technology-flops-of-2025-1024x512.jpg",640,320,true],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/204738-the-8-worst-technology-flops-of-2025.jpg",1200,600,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/204738-the-8-worst-technology-flops-of-2025.jpg",1200,600,false],"chromenews-featured":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/204738-the-8-worst-technology-flops-of-2025-1024x512.jpg",1024,512,true],"chromenews-large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/204738-the-8-worst-technology-flops-of-2025-825x575.jpg",825,575,true],"chromenews-medium":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/204738-the-8-worst-technology-flops-of-2025-590x410.jpg",590,410,true]},"author_info":{"display_name":"Jonathan Jeriah","author_link":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?author=1"},"category_info":"<a href=\"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?cat=35\" rel=\"category\">Tech<\/a>","tag_info":"Tech","comment_count":"0","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/204738","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=204738"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/204738\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/204739"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=204738"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=204738"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=204738"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}