Google predicted Donald Trump would win the election
The final tally from Google searches for Trump and Clinton is downright eerie in how close it came to predicting Donald Trump’s surprise victory
Why Google’s new Pixel phone is a Trojan horse
Google’s new Pixel phone feels like a shot at Apple’s iPhone. But perhaps more importantly, it shores up Google’s software sovereignty—and its AI future
What were Google’s most frequent U.K. searches after Brexit?
The second-most popular question for the search engine giant: ’What is the EU?’
Will Microsoft be LinkedIn’s saviour? Don’t bet on it.
Microsoft doesn’t have a very good track record when it comes to big acquisitions, and its purchase of LinkedIn will be its largest deal yet
The meaning of AlphaGo, the AI program that beat a Go champ
A Q&A with Geoffrey Hinton, the godfather of ’deep learning’—which helped Google’s AlphaGo beat a grandmaster—on the past, present and future of AI
Why does Trudeau keep sucking up to foreign tech companies?
Despite the PM’s love for Silicon Valley, relying on foreign tech firms for jobs risks turning Canada into a branch-plant economy
Bill Gates: ’Let’s science the expletive-expletive out of this.’
In predicting an imminent clean energy miracle, Bill Gates echoed the famous line from the movie ’The Martian’—a new rallying cry for science and progress
In a crowded music-streaming kingdom, Google makes its bet
The music-streaming market looks like a Game of Thrones map. And Google Play Music has made its play for the crown. Will it work?
The world can’t get enough of the Toronto Blue Jays
Worldwide, people are taking to Google to search for the Blue Jays. Even the most powerful man in the world isn’t getting this much attention.
Can Google predict who will win the election?
It’s possible that what we search for could be more indicative of how we’ll vote in elections than what we tell pollsters, but so far the evidence is mixed