Special Edition: 2025 in Tech - Winners, Surprises, & What's Next

The NewsWorthy

Erica Mandy

Daily News, Society & Culture, News

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🗓️ 13 December 2025

⏱️ 27 minutes

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We're taking a look back at the biggest tech stories of 2025, from surprising breakthroughs to the moments that didn't live up to the hype.

Tech Brew Ride Home host Brian McCullough joins us to break down the year's top trends, and what these shifts could mean for 2026.

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0:00.0	Today is Saturday, December 13th. As 2025 comes to a close, we're looking back at one of the
0:05.4	biggest drivers of change this year, tech. And counting down the top 10 tech stories, at least
0:11.0	according to our guest, he's Brian McCola, host of the Daily Podcast Tech Brew Ride Home,
0:16.0	covering all of Silicon Valley's news in a 15-minute daily roundup. He's sharing what broke
0:20.6	through, what
0:21.3	disappointed, what shocked the industry, and what all of it could mean for 2026. Let's get into the top
0:27.3	tech stories of 2025 from number 10 to the biggest tech story of the year.
0:34.5	Welcome, welcome to the Newsworthy special edition Saturday when we sit down with a different expert or celebrity every Saturday to talk about something in the news.
0:42.1	Don't forget to tune in every Monday through Friday for our regular episodes where we provide all the day's news in 10 minutes.
0:48.1	I'm Erica Mandy. It's now time for today's special edition Saturday.
1:13.2	Ryan McCola, thank you so much for joining us here on the Newsworthy again. Yeah, thanks for having me back. This is a great annual tradition we're doing here. I know. I'm loving it. Well, let's just start, before we get into the top 10, let's start big picture in just a couple of sentences. How would you describe tech in the year 2025? Back. Tech is back.
1:20.6	It rebounded. All sorts of things hit all-time highs from Nvidia stock to Bitcoin to things like IPO starting to happen again. So tech was a, the tech had a very good year as the year is ending.
1:26.9	There are lots of storm clouds on the horizon,
1:28.9	but I think we'll get to that. Yes, we will. Before we get into it, what were you thinking
1:33.5	about as you were creating your list? Like, what was the criteria for something to make the list?
1:38.7	Things that I think will look back historically as this was the year this broke through or
1:43.0	that happened. It's hard not to have made
1:45.6	it all about AI, but you'll see AI kind of weaves its way through half the things we're going to talk
1:51.2	about. Yeah. Let's go through the top 10 biggest tech stories of the year. And if we can, I'd love to
1:56.9	start with number 10 and work our way up to number one. So let's give us number 10.
2:02.1	Number 10 would be smart glasses as a new sort of consumer hardware product category.
2:08.2	But again, here's AI weaving its way in already because what's happened is this is a product
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