Gadgetory

friends followers snapchatters we're gathered here today to pay our respects and last tributes to all the technology that died in 2016 we start with the tragically short one day life of Microsoft's first AI chat bot teenager teh to teach it how to speak like a millennial Microsoft sent a free on Twitter on March 23rd but the Internet is a horrible place and it was only a matter of hours before people corrupted her and taught her to say racist things Microsoft took Tay offline later that same day another piece of Microsoft's tech went up in smoke on 4/20 the company announced it would stop making the Xbox 360 game system it had a good 10-year run before facing its final boss and succumbing to the ultimate red ring of death on May 10th gamers faced another tragic loss Disney announced it would discontinue the Disney infinity game no amount of pixie dust and clapping could bring back this Skylander style game in more than a hundred figurines which toy stores will still gladly sell to you for $15.99 a pop social media lost the hero that started the live broadcast video on your phone crazed meerkat paved the way for periscope and Facebook live in 2015 but it was crushed by the competition and removed from the App Store in September before meerkat had its 15 minutes of fame vine was giving everyone their 6 seconds of fame in October Twitter announced that it would kill off the mobile app for the short looping video clips the news hit us like a whale of a duck army but if it wasn't for vine we wouldn't know about eyebrows on fleek of course the most gruesome of all gadget deaths this year was the samsung galaxy note 7 which was recalled replaced and recalled again after the company realized it could not save the phone that was prone to spontaneously catching fire ashes to ashes dust to dust CNET I'm Bridget Carey