When Nilay Patel was four years old, he drove a Chrysler into a small pond because he was trying to learn how the gearshift worked. Years later, he became a technology journalist. He has thus far remained dry.

Nilay Patel is co-founder and editor-in-chief of The Verge, the technology and culture brand from Vox Media. In his decade at Vox Media, he&rsquo;s grown The Verge into one of the largest and most influential tech sites, with a global audience of millions of monthly readers, and award-winning journalism with real-world impact. Honored in Adweek&rsquo;s “Creative 100” in 2021, under Patel&rsquo;s leadership, The Verge received its first Pulitzer and National Magazine Award nominations.

Patel is a go-to expert voice in the tech space, hosting The Verge&rsquo;s Webby award-winning podcasts, Decoder with Nilay Patel and The Vergecast, and appearing on CNBC as a regular contributor. He received an AB in Political Science from the University of Chicago in 2003 and his J.D. from the University of Wisconsin Law School in 2006.

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The T-Mobile / Sprint merger should be stopped, say antitrust experts

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Reminder to the Trump administration: do not talk about your plans to do crime over text messages

The iPhone 11’s Deep Fusion camera arrives with iOS 13.2 developer beta

The NFL in 4K HDR gets off to a rocky start on Fox Sports

Inside the first-ever NFL broadcast in 4K HDR

is editor-in-chief of The Verge, host of the Decoder podcast, and co-host of The Vergecast.

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A YouTuber dissected an iPhone Duo and thinks he found the cause of crackgate

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