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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.

Windows turns 35: a visual history

From Windows 1.0 to Windows 10

Tom Warren
Let’s build the cities we want to see in 100 years

It’s time for an infrastructure revolution

Andrew J. Hawkins
It’s time to build a better internet

It’s time to fix a fragile, vital system

Adi Robertson
The host of Scam Goddess is in for the long con

Laci Mosley’s podcast celebrates the art of the grift

Zoë Schiffer
Meet the man who could lead the GOP’s war on platform moderation

Brendan Carr is next in line to run Trump’s FCC. His first task? Regulating social media.

Makena Kelly
What we’re voting for: public health

The US has the power to stop pandemics before they start

Nicole Wetsman
What we’re voting for: democracy

It’s time to get serious about power and accountability

Russell Brandom
The 8th Wonder of the WorldThe 8th Wonder of the World
Josh Dzieza
Waymo and Cruise safety drivers face a bleak choice: pandemic or pollution?

‘The sky looked like Tang, yet they still got us setting up cars that are covered in ash’

Andrew J. Hawkins
The Pixel 5 and 4A 5G play it safeThe Pixel 5 and 4A 5G play it safe
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The crypto millionaire that acquired BitTorrent—and waded into the trade war

When Chinese millionaire Justin Sun acquired BitTorrent, was he trying to skirt the trade war? Or fly right in the face of it, no matter the cost?

Christopher Harland-Dunaway
Inside Pinterest, more tales of workplace discrimination

Four people who worked on Pinterest’s finance team speak out about an unequal culture

Zoë Schiffer
Your move, PS5Your move, PS5
Sean Hollister
The sky is on fire in San Francisco, and we flew a drone through it

Millions of acres are burning across the West Coast

Justine Calma
How video chat fuels the American deportation machine

Inside the cruel bureaucracy of ICE’s immigrant detention centers

Gaby Del Valle
The legacy of the skate video lives on in TikTok

Skateboarding is more accessible and inclusive than ever, thanks to social media platforms

Nick Statt
You can cop-proof your phone, but there’s a better way to stay safe

The scramble to reclaim digital footprints can hide the deeper logic of protest and the trade-off between risk and reward

Russell Brandom
Recording police brutality: how one snap decision changed this town
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We’ve all seen videos of police violence go viral, and some lead to big changes. But what happens to the people filming those videos after they decide to hit record?

Mariya Abdulkaf