{"id":209926,"date":"2025-12-25T07:55:09","date_gmt":"2025-12-25T07:55:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/209926\/"},"modified":"2025-12-25T07:55:09","modified_gmt":"2025-12-25T07:55:09","slug":"from-chatgpt-to-dodgy-box-wars-13-tech-trends-that-defined-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/209926\/","title":{"rendered":"From ChatGPT to dodgy box wars: 13 tech trends that defined 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-91174671_secondary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom4 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop4\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\" data-testid=\"title-summary\">It was a year that witnessed the rise of retro tech \u2013 and the first time a \u2018deepfake\u2019 video made an impact in an Irish election<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Tech highs and lows for 2025: Clockwise from top left, an iPhone Air, a retro Canon Ixus, a Tesla Model Y, ChatGPT and a dodgy box\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/e3811631-b124-49b2-8246-5ee3300e2808.jpg\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"100%\" data-testid=\"article-image\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_caption1 indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_secondary indo-66f0fec7_regular indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop3 indo-b48c4984_left\" style=\"color:var(--color-grey-60)\">Tech highs and lows for 2025: Clockwise from top left, an iPhone Air, a retro Canon Ixus, a Tesla Model Y, ChatGPT and a dodgy box<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">This year saw seismic changes in our lives from a tech perspective. It was the year when most of us started using AI a little more while the war against dodgy boxes threatened to suck ordinary users in for the first time. Here are 13 things that defined the year and may yet affect it further in 2026.<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">1. A good year for electric cars<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"It was a year that witnessed the rise of retro tech \u2013 and the first time a \u2018deepfake\u2019&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":209927,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[8819,61,60,279,80],"class_list":["post-209926","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-technology","tag-adrian-weckler","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-review-magazine","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209926","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=209926"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209926\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/209927"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=209926"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=209926"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=209926"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}