The 10 Most Important Tech Stories of 2018

With surprise cameos from Burger King and Oscar Mayer

CES 2018 promised us robot dogs, air taxis and laundry-folding robots. Nearly a year later, these products remain out of reach for most of us, but it was still a productive year in tech—and one that will likely be remembered for being jam-packed with as much drama as a Shonda Rhimes script.

Here’s a look back at 2018’s tech highlight reel.

1. Blockchain

If there was an official tech buzzword of 2018, it was probably blockchain—that distributed ledger you’ve definitely heard of and can maybe sort of explain, even though you still might not understand it completely.

From Walmart to AB InBev, plenty of companies got in on the action, testing the technology to track products and ad campaigns. The

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