It is very close to the end of 2016 as I write this. Of course that means that there are a number of articles about the best and worst aspects of 2016. I’ve included a few of them in the list below. There are also stories about murder, companies left for dead as well as one company that made a lot of millionaires. Take a few minutes and catch up on the year in tech by clicking on a few of the headlines below.

• The year that wasn’t: 2016 as told by 120 fake news stories
• U.S. Now Asking Foreign Travelers for Instagram Usernames
• Review: The AirPods are fine wireless headphones for a certain type of person
• Google hits the reset button
• Where are the first 11 Microsoft employees today?
• Police ask: “Alexa, did you witness a murder?”
• Tech companies left for dead: Yep, still alive
• iPhone 7 was a top holiday gift, but Apple Watch is fading
• Microsoft Admits Serious Windows 10 Upgrade Error
• The 5 worst products of 2016
• Google’s Waymo self-driving car company now has Ford nipping at its heels

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