Features
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Prisoners at San Quentin are trapped with COVID. We talked to them
How Tulsa, Oklahoma, almost won Elon Musk using the language he knows best: memes
Silicon Valley, Clubhouse, and the cult of VC victimhood
Artists have turned boarded-up businesses into powerful Black Lives Matter art
Through fire and fear, Paradise, California’s teens take control of their lives
Widgets, hideable pages, App Library, and App Clips: a lot of new concepts for one update
Employees at Crisis Text Line tried telling the board about a pattern of racial insensitivity at the company — but when that didn’t work, they went to Twitter
Can Nextdoor really be a social network for communities if black people don’t feel safe on it?
Engineers have been abused, harassed, and spat at, while conspiracy theorists have launched arson attacks against mobile infrastructure
President Trump and his allies are now openly threatening violence against Americans — it’s time to remove them from the internet
As the president rages, Twitter finds its courage
Instacart promises a safer way to shop, but workers tell a different story
Small things now, hopefully bigger things later.
The CEO of Google and Alphabet joins The Vergecast
Survival companies are capitalizing on coronavirus fears to sell bunkers that can withstand the apocalypse.
As schools go remote, so do tests and so does surveillance
The website defined frat culture in 2010, but can it survive a decade later?
Over a dozen former employees tell The Verge about major problems plaguing the electric scooter company