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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 people who ruined the internet

SEO experts got very rich filling the web full of garbage. But are they to blame, or is Google?

Amanda Chicago Lewis
So long, small phonesSo long, small phones
Sean Hollister
The Quest 3 is Meta’s last chance to win the headset war before it truly begins

Meta doesn’t just need another hardware building block — it needs games.

Sean Hollister
Protesters take over NYC streets to tell Joe Biden to ‘end fossil fuels’

Demonstrators flood city streets ahead of a key United Nations climate summit with a clear message for Joe Biden: ‘end fossil fuels.’

Justine Calma
Where is Microsoft’s handheld Xbox?

With Steam Deck competitors on the rise, Microsoft has been focused on phones for Xbox Cloud Gaming so far.

Tom Warren
The end of the Googleverse

For two decades, Google Search was the invisible force that determined the ebb and flow of online content. Now, for the first time, its cultural relevance is in question.

Ryan Broderick
iMac at 25: a visual history of Apple’s iconic all-in-one computer

It’s a computer, a monitor, an internet communicator, and one of the most iconic lines of tech in history.

Umar Shakir
The video call revolution is deadThe video call revolution is dead
Jay Peters
Why it’s impossible to compete with Google Search

A couple of ex-Googlers set out to create the search engine of the future. They built something faster, simpler, and ad-free. So how come you’ve never heard of Neeva?

David Pierce
President Joe Biden wanted Gigi Sohn to fix America’s internet — what went wrong?

‘Dark money’ and the never-ending election cycle kept a qualified consumer advocate out of the Federal Communications Commission.

Makena Kelly
Sean Hollister
Sean Hollister
I’m slightly pissed at NACS.

My heart was set on a Hyundai Ioniq 5 this year. But it looks like the industry may turn against its industry-standard CCS charging plug — in favor of Tesla’s fake-it-till-you-make-it “North American Charging Standard,” aka NACS. Ford is switching, Hyundai is considering it, and just today Polestar and Electrify America joined the Tesla bandwagon.

The Ioniq would be a $50K investment — I didn’t have range anxiety about that before, but I do now! Yes, CCS will be around for a while yet, but I’m still annoyed that today’s non-Tesla EVs no longer look futureproof.

Goodnight PhoneGoodnight Phone
Gina Wynbrandt
Inside the AI Factory

How many humans does it take to make tech seem human? Millions.

Josh Dzieza
The store is for people, but the storefront is for Google’s web crawlers

The SEO arms race has left the web drowning in garbage text, with customers and businesses flailing to find each other.

Mia Sato
Richard Lawler
Richard Lawler
New York City’s orange Wednesday, in pictures.

The Verge snapped some photos of the apocalyptic scene in the Big Apple yesterday — from amber skies to desolate streets. To stay updated, you can follow the EPA’s air quality monitoring tool AirNow. Its forecast for Thursday is still bad — not quite a Code Maroon (hopefully) but a Code Red for “unhealthy” air.

A biker at a street corner against an orange sky hazy with smoke.
Manhattan’s skyline, shrouded in smoke.
1/6Photo by Chris Welch / The Verge
The Kia Boys will steal your car for clout

A loose collective of teenage car thieves has stolen tens of thousands of Hyundai and Kia vehicles, often posting the results on YouTube, Snapchat, and TikTok.

Taylor Dorrell
What New York City looked like stifled in wildfire smokeWhat New York City looked like stifled in wildfire smoke
Amelia Holowaty Krales and Justine Calma
The wild, true story of Chicago’s most infamous police impersonator

The “Kid Cop” duped the PD as a teenager — and that was just the beginning.

Matt Stroud
AMD’s and Nvidia’s latest sub-$400 GPUs fail to push the bar on 1440p gaming

I wish 1440p GPUs were more mainstream after years of 1080p dominance.

Tom Warren
Node by NodeNode by Node
Justine Calma
How Google tried to fix the web — by taking it over

Google promised to create a better, faster web for media companies with a new standard called AMP. In the end, it ruined the trust publishers had in the internet giant.

David Pierce