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these are the top 5 tech turkeys of this year I know it's a little early there's still time for a company to completely alter this list but that's a risk we're willing to take let's talk turkey coming in at number 5 is the end of the whole wham-o uber feud the tech world has seen some crazy battles over the years Apple suing Microsoft Apple suing Samsung the US Department of Justice suing Microsoft then there was way most suing uber over theft of trade secrets in February this seemed like there would be a serious battle that could go on forever and it went on for days for days as in one more day than three days the two companies decided to settle wham-o ended up owning 0.34% of ubers equity that amount could be worth around two hundred and forty five million dollars waynebow was seeking 1.8 billion dollars in damages so this was like a firecracker that ended up being a dud if the two companies were just going to settle there was little reason to go and waste a Court's time at all and number four is airpower I've seen wireless power device has been pushed for years the wireless chief standard was a huge step forward I will say I was really surprised when Apple jumped onto the Qi standard bandwagon then it announced air power a device that could power multiple products at one time air power was also supposed to let devices talk to each other regarding power consumption this was back in September 2017 then a year went by in that time Apple took a lot of references to air power off its site but there's a tiny shred of hope air power was mentioned in the iPhone 10's manuals number three is Elon Musk and his use of Twitter I don't even know where to start with this one on one hand we've got this guy who's regular compared to the fictional Tony Stark on the other hand we've got these tweets this tweet by musk got Tesla in hot water with a DOJ because musk claimed in 2017 testa would produce 5000 model threes per week by December 2017 the company didn't hit that mark until June of this year this tweet got musk in even more trouble he got slapped with a 20mm dollar fine Tesla the company was hit with its own 20 million dollar fine musk also had a step down as chairman of Tesla's Board of they'll remain CEO why because the SEC said the tweet was misleading which cost test a stock price to jump over 6% and let's not even talk about the whole submarine thing criminy at number 2 is Facebook and Cambridge analytical okay let's recap this mess data from as many as 87 million people was improperly shared with Cambridge analytical a data analytics firm the information collected by Cambridge analytical may have been misused for political ads during the 2016 US presidential election the company also had a connection to the Trump presidential campaign Facebook did take actions to correct things by purging pages linked to a Russian troll farm the company also tried to make changes to avoid election shenanigans before the US midterm elections this year then for some reason the company introduced a new video chatting gadget by the name of portal that's right Facebook is trying to sell camera-equipped devices for your home after all of this good luck with that before we get to number one let's discuss an honorable mention Google a lot went wrong for the company this year but let's keep it light the pixel 3 was one of the worst kept secrets in a long time it was leaked so much that even Google made fun of that fact when it formally introduced the pixels and the biggest tech turkey of 2018 was u.s. net neutrality getting audit pied back in 2015 the FCC made net neutrality a formal thing in the United States the concept of net neutrality is basically all bits are treated the same you should receive data from any service without an internet service provider interfering then the u.s. got a new FCC Commissioner they comically large coffee mug object PI led the Commission in killing the previous rules and also stripped the agency of its authority to regulate the internet now noting Horrible's happened yet we don't have fast lanes for specific services yet but this is like deciding to keep your front door unlocked sure nothing could happen for a while but there's a big opportunity for something to go wrong several states are trying to build workaround methods to ensure net neutrality but that can cause issues with the federal government we'd like to formally apologize to actual turkeys there's nothing inherently wrong with being a turkey to you I say gobble gobble gobble Amaya Zach tired I'll see you online