Niantic lays off 8% of staff, cancels four projects as it struggles to recapture the success of Pokémon Go
Despite the company announcing a new NBA game
A number of industries are well known for their fads: fashion, food, health. But technology has experienced just as many short-lived crazes over the years. From mobile games so popular they caused a danger to the public, to "futuristic" television sets that slowly died off. Here are the tech world's biggest fads from the last decade.