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Why Cloudflare CEO Matthew Prince is the internet’s unlikely defender

What free speech, war zones, and Aristotle have to do with internet infrastructure.

Nilay Patel
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Alex Heath
Avatar’s Paul Sun-Hyung Lee wants to geek out with the fans of the future

As Paul Sun-Hyung Lee sees it, truly loving a genre franchise means wanting to share it and pass it along to the next generation of fans.

Charles Pulliam-Moore
Final Fantasy VII Rebirth’s creators want you to embrace the stress

Don’t worry, there’ll be plenty of ‘wonder and excitement’ to embrace as well.

Ash Parrish
The direct influence of Twin Peaks on Zelda

An interview with Twin Peaks co-creator Mark Frost reveals a fateful conversation with Nintendo in 1990.

Scott Meslow
For Netflix’s live-action Avatar to work, Zuko had to find his heart a little faster

Avatar: The Last Airbender actor Dallas Liu opens up about turning to YouTube and co-star Paul Sun-Hyung Lee to figure out who the new Prince Zuko really is.

Charles Pulliam-Moore
Platformer’s Casey Newton on surviving the great media collapse and what comes next

The editor of the popular tech newsletter talks about leaving Substack and where he’s seeing successful business models in media.

Nilay Patel
Why Sen. Brian Schatz thinks child safety bills can trump the First Amendment

The Democratic senator from Hawaii on regulating social media: ‘An algorithm doesn’t have a First Amendment right.’

Nilay Patel
Mark Zuckerberg’s new goal is creating artificial general intelligence

And he doesn’t want to control it. Maybe.

Alex Heath
Monarch: Legacy of Monsters’ new titans were inspired by the weird freakiness of nature

Monarch: Legacy of Monsters VFX supervisor Sean Konrad opens up about the challenges of creating new nightmares for Godzilla’s kaiju canon.

Charles Pulliam-Moore
Why Flexport CEO Ryan Petersen took his company back

His replacement got the boot barely a year into the job. What brought Petersen back?

Nilay Patel
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Sean Hollister
Epic CEO Tim Sweeney: the post-trial interview

An interview with Epic Games CEO Tim Sweeney.

Sean Hollister
Hirokazu Kore-eda is so back

The director of Monster talks about the complexities (and simplicities) of portraying multiple points of view

Robyn Kanner
With Dream Scenario, Nic Cage wants to let you in on a secret

Dream Scenario’s Nic Cage wants you to know that there’s a difference between maximalism and pushing the boundaries of filmmaking as an art.

Charles Pulliam-Moore
The influences of Godzilla Minus One go beyond the atom bomb

Director Takashi Yamazaki opens up about taking the king of monsters back to its roots for a modern audience.

Charles Pulliam-Moore
Wix CEO Avishai Abrahami on why the web isn’t dying after all

The co-founder of website builder Wix is embracing generative AI, and he’s not too worried that it might destroy the business models of the web.

Nilay Patel
Hayao Miyazaki is very convincing

Longtime Evangelion animator Takeshi Honda had already signed up to work on another film when The Boy and the Heron director came calling. “When Miyazaki says that to you, really there’s no way to say no,” Honda says.

Andrew Webster
The creators of Monarch: Legacy of Monsters aren’t just trying to make a Godzilla spinoff show

Monarch co-creators Chris Black and Matt Fraction and director Matt Shakman open up about why their new MonsterVerse series is so focused on ordinary humans.

Charles Pulliam-Moore
Microsoft is finally making custom chips — and they’re all about AI

The Azure Maia 100 and Cobalt 100 chips are the first two custom silicon chips designed by Microsoft for its cloud infrastructure.

Tom Warren
Rick and Morty’s Dan Harmon and Scott Marder are trusting the process for season 7

Rick and Morty co-creator Dan Harmon and executive producer Scott Marder say that being in a healthier space personally is a big part of what’s making the new season so sharp.

Charles Pulliam-Moore
Secretary of Energy Jennifer Granholm on cleaning up ‘clean’ energy

The US is the world’s biggest producer of oil and gas. Can Granholm chart a path to a more sustainable future?

Justine Calma
Blizzard’s president on the studio’s ‘new era’ under Xbox

Mike Ybarra is confident about the studio’s future.

Jay Peters
Andrew Webster
Andrew Webster
“If I were highly skilled enough to use PowerPoint, I could retire and become a professor full-time.”

That’s Tom Hiddleston, speaking to The Verge just ahead of the premiere of the first season of Loki on Disney Plus in 2021. It’s an interesting conversation — touching on everything from Loki lectures to the existence of free will — and it’s especially fun to revisit it as the show’s second season starts streaming today.

Nothing CEO Carl Pei on the Phone 2, AI, and the future of gadgets

Nothing wants to invent the future. But you don’t get to invent the future if you can’t first make it in the smartphone biz.

David Pierce