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The Verge’s features pursue rigorous, forward-looking journalism. Here you’ll find our most ambitious, award-winning reporting, profiles, essays, and oral histories across all the intersecting areas we cover, from technology to TV/film, climate change to creators.

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Is tennis the sport of the future?

Kevin Nguyen

The rise and fall of OpenSea

Insider accounts of the company reveal a chaotic work environment, ever-shifting priorities, and troubles with the SEC

Ben Weiss
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Pump and Trump

Inside the MAGA-fueled fever dream of the 2024 Bitcoin Conference.

Gaby Del Valle
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The AI Keeps the Score

Dvora Meyers

How the Stream Deck rose from the ashes of a legendary keyboard

Jon Porter
 and Sean Hollister

How one small company’s SEO garbage made it to Sports Illustrated and USA Today

The man behind the AI gaffes has a yearslong history of filling the internet with garbage.

Mia Sato

The Excel superstars throw down in Vegas

David Pierce

The invisible seafaring industry that keeps the internet afloat

Josh Dzieza
Features

Peloton is a media company now, with media company problems

Victoria Song

How Vice became ‘a fucking clown show’

The wild expenses, shady deals, and greed that ruined Vice.

Elizabeth Lopatto

Indie, rocked

Pitchfork exploded as the music industry changed, then was cut down to size by another wave of technological change. Was that it?

Elizabeth Lopatto

‘Burning Man for rednecks’: inside the King of the Hammers off-road race

While the event is known as one of the biggest motorsport events in the world, it’s also a place to showcase technology, land stewardship, and just a tiny bit of nightlife.

Emme Hall

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AI at Work

The text file that runs the internet

For decades, robots.txt governed the behavior of web crawlers. But as unscrupulous AI companies seek out more and more data, the basic social contract of the web is falling apart. 

David Pierce

The Perfect Webpage

Mia Sato

How Lego builds a new Lego set

Sean Hollister

Goodbye to all that harassment

Sarah Jeong

Extremely softcore

Zoë Schiffer

How Twitter broke the news

Nilay Patel

The year Twitter died: a special series from The Verge

Verge Staff

The great scrollback of Alexandria

Verge Staff

The people who ruined the internet

SEO experts got very rich filling the web full of garbage. But are they to blame, or is Google?

Amanda Chicago Lewis

The obsessive tormentor who made professors’ lives miserable

Erika Hayasaki

The end of the Googleverse

For two decades, Google Search was the invisible force that determined the ebb and flow of online content. Now, for the first time, its cultural relevance is in question.

Ryan Broderick
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Why it’s impossible to compete with Google Search

A couple of ex-Googlers set out to create the search engine of the future. They built something faster, simpler, and ad-free. So how come you’ve never heard of Neeva?

David Pierce
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President Joe Biden wanted Gigi Sohn to fix America’s internet — what went wrong?

‘Dark money’ and the never-ending election cycle kept a qualified consumer advocate out of the Federal Communications Commission.

Makena Kelly

The greatest tech books of all time

Verge Staff

Goodnight Phone

Gina Wynbrandt

Inside the AI Factory

How many humans does it take to make tech seem human? Millions.

Josh Dzieza
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The store is for people, but the storefront is for Google’s web crawlers

The SEO arms race has left the web drowning in garbage text, with customers and businesses flailing to find each other.

Mia Sato
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The Kia Boys will steal your car for clout

A loose collective of teenage car thieves has stolen tens of thousands of Hyundai and Kia vehicles, often posting the results on YouTube, Snapchat, and TikTok.

Taylor Dorrell

The wild, true story of Chicago’s most infamous police impersonator

The “Kid Cop” duped the PD as a teenager — and that was just the beginning.

Matt Stroud
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Node by Node

Justine Calma

How Google tried to fix the web — by taking it over

Google promised to create a better, faster web for media companies with a new standard called AMP. In the end, it ruined the trust publishers had in the internet giant.

David Pierce

Taken for a ride

Ian Frisch

The Verge made a beautiful magazine, and you can preorder it now

The Homeland anthology collects some of our most ambitious investigative journalism, with stunning art and photography.

Verge Staff
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Inside Elon’s ‘extremely hardcore’ Twitter

Twitter’s staff spent years trying to protect the social media site against impulsive billionaires who wanted to use the reach of its platform for their own ends, and then one made himself the CEO.

Zoë Schiffer
, Casey Newton
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Features

The battle of the standards: why the US and UK can’t stop fighting the metric system

James Vincent

Working Through It

Mia Sato
Transpo

Henrik Fisker wants to sell you an EV you can actually afford

Patrick George

The Verge Holiday Gift Guides 2022

Verge Staff