Verge Hack Week 2014 – The Verge The Verge is about technology and how it makes us feel. Founded in 2011, we offer our audience everything from breaking news to reviews to award-winning features and investigations, on our site, in video, and in podcasts. 2026-04-16T19:36:37+00:00 https://www.theverge.com/rss/stream/5794558 https://platform.theverge.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/01/verge-rss-large_80b47e.png?w=150&h=150&crop=1 Mike Case <![CDATA[Our future government will work more like Amazon]]> https://www.theverge.com/2014/8/23/6058299/our-future-government-will-work-more-like-amazon 2014-08-23T14:00:03-04:00 2014-08-23T14:00:03-04:00
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As part of Verge Hack Week, we've invited great minds from around Vox Media to contribute their thoughts on the future of everything - from food to fashion to the written word. In this installment, we welcome Vox Media product team coordinator Mike Case.

There is a lot of government in the United States. Several hundred federal agencies, 535 voting members in two houses of Congress, more than 90,000 state and local governments, and over 20 million Americans involved in public service.

We say we have a government for and by the people. But the way American government conducts its day-to-day business does not feel like anything we, the peop …

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]]> Ryan Gantz <![CDATA[The future of self-driving cars: welcome to Autocon 2035]]> https://www.theverge.com/2014/8/22/6057071/the-future-of-self-driving-cars-welcome-to-autocon-2035 2026-04-16T15:36:37-04:00 2014-08-22T14:46:29-04:00
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As part of Verge Hack Week, we've invited great minds from around Vox Media to contribute their thoughts on the future of everything - from food to fashion to the written word. In this installment, we welcome Vox Media's director of user experience Ryan Gantz.

Good evening ladies, gentlemen, and fellow Sentients! Welcome to the 20th annual Autocon, presented by Google Motors and Lockheed-Uber. I know you're all excited for new product demos, and to learn what the pending merger of our two companies means for your job and future. But to kick things off, we thought it would be fun to take a look back at a few important milestones from the …

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]]> Dan Rubenstein <![CDATA[In the future, we’ll all be like my grandfather]]> https://www.theverge.com/2014/8/22/6057049/in-the-future-well-all-be-like-my-grandfather 2014-08-22T14:21:44-04:00 2014-08-22T14:21:44-04:00
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As part of Verge Hack Week, we've invited great minds from around Vox Media to contribute their thoughts on the future of everything - from food to fashion to the written word. In this installment, we welcome SBNation producer and host Dan Rubenstein.

As essentially impossible as it is to be completely encouraged about the future of media or technology, there may be nothing that drives my optimism and ability to (hopefully) put things in their proper perspective than my grandfather Ben, who passed away the better part of 20 years ago.

His life spanned many, if not all of the huge cultural shifts of the 20th century, and he toed that fanta …

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]]> Katie Drummond Carl Franzen <![CDATA[These are the 23 most viral cats of all time]]> https://www.theverge.com/2014/8/22/6053477/cats-timeline 2014-08-22T11:34:33-04:00 2014-08-22T11:34:33-04:00
A cashcat from the popular Tumblr Cashcats.biz, which did not make the list because it features an assortment of cats | Cashcats.biz
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Welcome to the first annual Verge Hack Week. We're totally blowing up our site: we've given our reporters and editors the entire week to play with new tools and experiment with new storytelling ideas, while members of our amazing product team have gathered in New York to help build all sorts of interesting new things. Learn more.

Katie Drummond: cat lover since 1986, human cat companion since 1992.

Carl Franzen: cat lover since 1987, human cat companion since 2012 (it would have been sooner, but his dad was "allergic").

Trust us. We know cats.

We know the soft touch of whiskers on a cheek in the wee morning hours. The faint patter of fo …

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]]> Russ Frushtick <![CDATA[Will owning a FitBit finally make me cool?]]> https://www.theverge.com/2014/8/22/6056703/will-owning-a-fitbit-finally-make-me-cool 2014-08-22T11:20:40-04:00 2014-08-22T11:20:40-04:00
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As part of Verge Hack Week, we've invited great minds from around Vox Media to contribute their thoughts on the future of everything - from food to fashion to the written word. In this installment, we welcome Polygon executive producer Russ Frushtick.

In the early 1990s, the power of the slap bracelet was unquestioned. It was a dangerous tool, wielded by the most popular and fashionable members of my second grade class. Wannabes would cluster around, ogling the latest acquisition, be it a sparkly, hypnotic number or one featuring the likeness of a preferred Ninja Turtle. I was drawn in by the fame of it, a wearable social weapon with which …

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]]> Michael Zelenko <![CDATA[Check out the first generation of your favorite websites]]> https://www.theverge.com/2014/8/22/6054573/check-out-the-first-generation-of-your-favorite-websites 2014-08-22T10:55:09-04:00 2014-08-22T10:55:09-04:00
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Welcome to the first annual Verge Hack Week. We're totally blowing up our site: we've given our reporters and editors the entire week to play with new tools and experiment with new storytelling ideas, while members of our amazing product team have gathered in New York to help build all sorts of interesting new things. Learn more.

Before websites were wild, dynamic, all-encompassing entities that contained the depressing entirety of the human experience, they were simple affairs: a phone number, a mailing address, a bulletin board, and maybe even a random chat room if you were really lucky. It was a simpler - and uglier - era. Thanks to Th …

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]]> Thomas Houston <![CDATA[It’s all in the details: these miniatures changed movies]]> https://www.theverge.com/2014/8/22/6054153/best-movie-miniatures-from-alien-to-blade-runner 2014-08-22T10:35:55-04:00 2014-08-22T10:35:55-04:00
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Welcome to the first annual Verge Hack Week. We're totally blowing up our site: we've given our reporters and editors the entire week to play with new tools and experiment with new storytelling ideas, while members of our amazing product team have gathered in New York to help build all sorts of interesting new things. Learn more.

Perhaps it's having grown up in the '80s and a hearty dose of nostalgia in the face of overwrought visual effects in modern movies, but there's something indescribably powerful about the special effects in films like Blade Runner, Alien, and Dark City. It was an era before CG took over, a time when nearly a centu …

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]]> Sean O'Kane <![CDATA[The best vines from space (so far)]]> https://www.theverge.com/2014/8/22/6054731/the-best-vines-from-space-so-far 2014-08-22T10:29:52-04:00 2014-08-22T10:29:52-04:00
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Welcome to the first annual Verge Hack Week. We're totally blowing up our site: we've given our reporters and editors the entire week to play with new tools and experiment with new storytelling ideas, while members of our amazing product team have gathered in New York to help build all sorts of interesting new things. Learn more.

The first tweet from space was sent in 2009 - but considering how rapidly social media platforms grow, it's kind of amazing how long it's taken for astronauts to start using other services to share their unique view of our planet. Sure, they have "more important" things to do like "science experiements" that "bene …

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]]> Ross Miller <![CDATA[Every Simpsons episode ever, as reviewed by you (a work in progress)]]> https://www.theverge.com/2014/8/22/6053829/every-simpsons-episode-reviewed 2014-08-22T10:21:23-04:00 2014-08-22T10:21:23-04:00

Every Simpsons episode ever, as reviewed by you

This is a review of every Simpsons episode for the first 25 seasons - that's 552 episodes in all! We've asked The Verge community to sign up to review up to four episodes of the show each during FXX's 12-day marathon. This is a work in progress - and because it's a community effort, we expect a few missing episodes here or there (we'll be going to back to fill in the gaps later). Click here for more information. Updated daily!

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]]> Leslie Price <![CDATA[Screw perfection: the new normal on social media is just normal]]> https://www.theverge.com/2014/8/22/6056251/screw-perfection-the-new-normal-on-social-media-is-just-normal 2014-08-22T10:06:27-04:00 2014-08-22T10:06:27-04:00
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As part of Verge Hack Week, we've invited great minds from around Vox Media to contribute their thoughts on the future of everything - from food to fashion to the written word. In this installment, we welcome Racked national editor Leslie Price.

Aesthetically driven, the fashion, beauty, and health industries have glommed on to Instagram and other visual-sharing platforms, with users uploading streams of inspirational, FOMO-inducing photos. Whether it's hot dog legs on the beach; a pretty manicure; or a latte with a designer handbag artfully arranged next to it, these unblemished vignettes play right into our collective insecurities. Let's …

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