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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.

The 2021 Escalade’s curved screens are a taste of what’s to come

Whether you like it or not

Sean O'Kane
How an experimental story about gender and warfare shook the sci-fi community

Isabel Fall’s story raised questions about how we read online

M.L. Clark
The Craigslist of guns: inside the online “gun show that never ends”

Armslist: the online marketplace of guns

Colin Lecher and Sean Campbell
Sony’s electric car is the best surprise of CES
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A real working car stuffed full of Sony tech

Sean O'Kane
Sonos said what every smaller tech company was thinking: working with big tech sucks

Google is explicitly denying it copied Sonos’ technology

Dieter Bohn
Up close with Mercedes-Benz’s Avatar concept car
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That’s right: Avacar

Sean O'Kane
Concept cars and concept foldables betray a lack of confidence

If you don’t know what to make, you promise to make everything

Dieter Bohn
CES 2020 is here, and here’s how to set your expectations

Buckle up for gadget news

Dieter Bohn
Situation: there are too many competing smart home standards

Surely a new one will fix it, right?

Dieter Bohn
Ikea 2.0: inside the furniture giant’s big bet on the smart home
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The Swedish furniture giant has conquered living rooms, bedrooms, and bathrooms — but can it hang on to the future of the home?

Thomas Ricker
Google and YouTube moderators speak out on the work that gave them PTSD

They scrub the internet of violent and disturbing content, and it haunts them forever

Casey Newton
Exclusive: documents show Foxconn refuses to renegotiate Wisconsin deal

Why won’t Foxconn tell Wisconsin what it’s building?

Josh Dzieza
Like it or not, the Marvel empire redefined cinema this decade

Dread it, run from it — destiny arrives all the same

Julia Alexander
Emotional baggage: inside the toxic work environment at Away

Away’s founders sold a vision of travel and inclusion, but former employees say it masked a toxic work environment

Zoë Schiffer
How Sony bought, and squandered, the future of gaming

PlayStation Now had the keys to the cloud gaming kingdom, but Sony barely stuck a toe in the door

Sean Hollister
The dark side of electronic waste recycling

How an e-waste sting uncovered a shocking betrayal

Colin Lecher
Google’s third era

What’s next now that Sundar Pichai is CEO of Alphabet

Dieter Bohn
Driving the Taycan, Porsche’s first electric car
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All the speed you’d expect from a Porsche, with zero emissions

Sean O'Kane
Pirate Radio: a special series from The Verge

Features and podcasts that explore the complicated narrative of what illegal transmissions can do and who they reach

Verge Staff
The Last Stand

As insect invaders approach, researchers use a combination of indigenous knowledge and Western forestry science to save a valuable tradition

Willy Blackmore
How the Hmong diaspora uses the world’s most boring technology to make something weird and wonderful

Reimagining the conference call line as a radio show

Mia Sato
Tesla Cybertruck first ride: inside Elon Musk’s electric pickup truck
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Riding shotgun in the polarizing prototype

Sean O'Kane
The flying taxi future is coming, but it’s elitist and underwhelming

German startup Volocopter unveiled a new flying taxi station in Singapore, but it was gone within a week

Alexis Ong
Volkswagen’s ID Space Vizzion is an electric wagon that goes 300 miles

With electric longboards in the trunk

Sean O'Kane