When Nilay Patel was four years old, he drove a Chrysler into a small pond because he was trying to learn how the gearshift worked. Years later, he became a technology journalist. He has thus far remained dry. Nilay Patel is co-founder and editor-in-chief of The Verge, the technology and culture brand from Vox Media. In his decade at Vox Media, he’s grown The Verge into one of the largest and most influential tech sites, with a global audience of millions of monthly readers, and award-winning journalism with real-world impact. Honored in Adweek’s “Creative 100” in 2021, under Patel’s leadership, The Verge received its first Pulitzer and National Magazine Award nominations. Patel is a go-to expert voice in the tech space, hosting The Verge’s Webby award-winning podcasts, Decoder with Nilay Patel and The Vergecast, and appearing on CNBC as a regular contributor. He received an AB in Political Science from the University of Chicago in 2003 and his J.D. from the University of Wisconsin Law School in 2006.
Casey Newton and Kevin Roose launched the first episode of their new podcast Machine Gods today, after a successful run doing Hard Fork at the NYT. I’m dead serious about that logo tattoo. Thinking… armband?
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Apple’s first foldable is an early adopter special.
The Illinois governor on AI, data centers, privacy, and Trump.
Elon Musk is pushing SpaceX’s Starlink to become a major competitor to AT&T, Verizon, and T-Mobile. But becoming a fourth major carrier in the United States has a long, messy, and expensive history.
The musician and YouTuber on investigating the surveillance state and becoming the face of the anti-Flock movement.
Maybe the thi— no, fou— wait, fifth time’s the charm for WB.
The future of computing might be always-on, autonomous agents, but should we hand Meta or OpenAI this much personal data?
Congress missed its chance on social media. Can it act on AI?
I asked Cloudflare CEO Matthew Prince about his personal million-dollar donation to the Omarchy Linux project, which has dragged companies like 1Password into controversy due to creator David Heinemeier Hansson’s strident anti-immigrant views. Judge for yourself.
Verge features writer Josh Dzieza discusses his investigation into the Stratos data center, and how Utah residents fought back against it.