From WordPad to Omegle: Tech we bid farewell to in 2023

From WordPad to Omegle: Tech we bid farewell in 2023

Google discontinued its AR glass - Google Glass Enterprise Edition after the tech giant's vision for hands-free computing failed to achieve mainstream success.

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Lenovo also shut down its Legion Gaming Phone business earlier this year. While the devices received praise from critics and reviewers, they failed to compete with popular gaming phones.

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Amazon laid to rest its fitness trackers lineup - Halo. The company also refunded users who purchased the device and deleted all health-related data.

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Microsoft also waved goodbye to the iconic text editor - WordPad. Introduced with Windows 95, the app will be removed from Windows 11 in a future update.

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Another Microsoft product laid off this year is Cortana. The digital voice assistant was designed to compete against Siri and Google Assistant.

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Omegle, the popular chat platform where you could talk to strangers online shut down in November.

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Hyperloop One, the startup that wanted to revolutionize the way we travel ceased operations after nearly a decade of work after failing to secure any customers.

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