Thomas’ first gadget memory was typing 7734 into his father’s inverted, HP-35 scientific calculator. Clearly fated to tech blogging, he would have to wait another 20 years before the rise of the medium. A degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering led Thomas to Silicon Valley just prior to the dot-com boom. In June of 2011, Thomas wrote his 1,362,258th word for Engadget, leaving to help launch The Verge.

Thomas Ricker

New under-display fingerprint sensor is slow but promising

ScreenDrive: Mini Cooper S Countryman is the ultimate ‘90s gadget

Test-riding the (2017) VanMoof Electrified S

Don’t drone drunk

Samsung’s new SmartThings and Wi-Fi mesh router goes up for preorder on Sunday

Plex Live TV is live

Luminoodle Basecamp: because sometimes you need a 20-foot light rope

Essential Home is an Amazon Echo competitor that puts privacy first

Watch Samsung’s 9.1-inch OLED display stretch without breaking

HomeKit and WeMo, together at last

is a deputy editor and Verge co-founder with a passion for human-centric cities, e-bikes, and life as a digital nomad. He’s been a tech journalist for 20 years.

Deputy Editor

Valve just imported 50 tons of game consoles in two days

Hisense aggressively cuts the price of its RGB LED TV on release day

Homebridge 2.0 is here, and it speaks Matter

Tesla hits Musk’s threshold for ‘safe unsupervised’ driving

Amazon’s trying to turn its massive shipping operation into another AWS

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