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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.

Audi reveals its second electric car, the E-Tron Sportback

Coming to Europe in 2020 with over 200 miles of range

Sean O'Kane
The Afghan DJs hired and abandoned by the US military

They were hired to help with the war effort—and when the American military pulled out, those voices were left for dead

Christopher Harland-Dunaway
Up close with Ford’s electric Mustang SUV, the Mach-E
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Let the arguments begin

Sean O'Kane
The everything town in the middle of nowhere

How the tiny town of Roundup, Montana, became a hub in Amazon’s supply chain

Josh Dzieza
Behind Color Factory, one of the photogenic pop-ups trying to conquer the experience economy

Hair balls, random dicks, and other things that happen when humans storm your pop-up

Ashley Carman
The lonely ballad of the fuck button

LoveSync was meant for couples struggling in the bedroom — instead its crowdfunding campaign became a viral joke

Megan Farokhmanesh
In the hot seat

Behind Hot Ones’ ambitions to be the future of late-night TV

Bijan Stephen
What DC Comics needs to learn from Joker’s success

The film is a model for the future of DC’s films and a throwback to the company’s best years

Daniel Joyaux
Faraday Future’s still haunted by the past of its billionaire founder

Can an electric car startup save itself from its founder?

Sean O'Kane
Lexus teases its first electric vehicles with a wild drone-deploying concept car

The LF-30 is a weird harbinger of Lexus’ electric future

Sean O'Kane
Cinema’s digital impostors are coming

From Rogue One to Gemini Man, the rules around digital actor replacements are changing

Charles Bramesco
The Pixel 4 is more like an iPhone than any other Android phone

Google is bridging the gap between iOS and Android

Tom Warren
A closer look at the XC40 Recharge, Volvo’s first electric car

The XC40 Recharge won’t blow people away or engender rapturous headlines like the Tesla Model 3 or the Porsche Taycan, but it may actually have more to say

Andrew J. Hawkins
Should we treat incels as terrorists?

Misogynist violence is complicated — but this is an extreme case

Adi Robertson
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Sean Hollister
Rising Signs: Inside astrology app Co—Star

It’s feeding millennials’ astrological fascinations with mystical algorithms and an old-school approach to the zodiac

Allie Jones
Read the full transcript of Mark Zuckerberg’s leaked internal Facebook meetings

Highlights from two hours of leaked audio from recent Q&A sessions with Facebook’s CEO

Casey Newton