First, in this post, we'll take a look at the year's top articles from Singularity Hub, and next week we'll post some of our favorite writing from around the web. The year was a bit of a rollercoaster. We got the Impossible Whopper, an advanced robot dog called Spot, a "word processor" for gene editing, and the first image of a black hole. We also marked the dubious anniversary of the first genetically modified babies, scientists called for a global moratorium on germline engineering, and big tech continued to face a backlash from within and without. Machine learning algorithms beat top players in multiplayer video games, and a former world champion in the game of Go retired, saying AI cannot be defeated.