The best tech reporting of 2016

2016 was pretty bad. We lost a number of great artists and writers; we dragged ourselves through an endless presidential election; there were terrorist attacks in the U.S. and across the world; numerous police shootings; and then there was Zika and Brexit.

But there was some good. The Olympics turned out pretty great (outside of that whole fake police report embarrassment), there’s this epic rock-paper-scissors battle video that should be mandatory viewing for anyone depressed, Beyoncé made the world “Lemonade” and India planted 50 million trees in one day.

Another winner of 2016 was tech journalism, which really shone across the industry. So as we head into the end of the year, we asked you to submit some of the best reads from 2016. We also sprinkled in recommendations from our own reporters and editors.

We hope you enjoy.

• The Wall Street Journal’s ongoing Theranos coverage, by John Carreyrou

Theranos Retreats From Blood Tests

Theranos Whistleblower Shook the Company—and His Family

Michael Loccisano / Getty

• Pokémon Go Brings Augmented Reality to a Mass Audience

The New York Times, by Mike Isaac and Nick Wingfield

The Verge

• The Financial Times’ coverage of Apple

Apple builds secret team to kick-start virtual reality effort

Apple hiring automotive experts to work in secret research lab

Apple in talks on McLaren supercars takeover

• Speak, memory: When her best friend died, she rebuilt him using artificial intelligence

The Verge, by Casey Newton

• The Business of Too Much TV

Vulture, by Josef Adalian and Maria Elena Fernandez

Ma Ping - Pool / Getty

• The Perfect Weapon: How Russian Cyberpower Invaded the U.S.

The New York Times: Eric Lipton, David E. Sanger and Scott Shane

• Machine Bias: There’s software used across the country to predict future criminals. And it’s biased against blacks.

ProPublica, by Julia Angwin, Jeff Larson, Surya Mattu and Lauren Kirchner

• Behind The Crash Of 3D Robotics, North America's Most Promising Drone Company

Forbes, by Ryan Mac and Aaron Tilley

Michael Kovac / Getty Images

• Inside Evan Spiegel's very private Snapchat Story

Recode, by Kurt Wagner

• How to Make a Bot That Isn't Racist

Motherboard, by Sarah Jeong

Andrew Spear/ The Washington Post / Getty

• There is a blind spot in AI research

Nature, by Kate Crawford and Ryan Calo

Drew Angerer / Getty

• Sam Altman’s manifest destiny

The New Yorker, by Tad Friend

• The Sadness and Beauty of Watching Google’s AI Play Go

Wired, by Cade Metz

This article originally appeared on Recode.net.

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