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Fighting fires before they ever start, developers and homeowners in California are on the offense.
One year on Linux, two distros, a few tears, four desktop environments, and zero regrets about leaving Windows.
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Nvidia has built an empire on circular deals for chips. Can anything knock it down?
The fastest growing companies in the world aren’t AI companies, but the startups that supply them with warm bodies.
Inside the right wing’s effort to dismantle the organizations and safeguards that protect the truth.
A series about the devil’s bargain between the people who make things on the internet, the platforms that distribute them, and the way we consume content
Behind every influencer is an army of the influenced. These are the stories of credit card debt and piles of mass-produced clutter.
Is the promise of jobs worth all the water and chemicals it takes to manufacture chips in the Arizona desert?
The convoluted saga of Justin Baldoni, Blake Lively, and It Ends With Us is still raging on social media, thanks to influencers.
The internet has long been a source of information and support for transgender people. Now, trans rights and the internet itself are in a moment of crisis. What happens next?
Bands like Ekko Astral are bringing the urgency of online solidarity into the mosh pit.
The anonymity granted by the internet is a lifeline to many trans people. What happens when that privacy disappears?
How do resources on transitioning survive the era of surveillance and AI slop?
The internet once helped trans people connect and organize. Now it’s a dangerous liability. What comes next?
People who have documented their lives online are discovering the dark side of digital permanence.
The world’s largest encyclopedia became the factual foundation of the web, but now it’s under attack.
How the future of wind energy in the US might come down to NIMBYs and Nantucket.
Congress seemed to think a scrolling video platform was a national security threat. What changed?
Google dubbed an error from its Med-Gemini model a typo. Experts say it demonstrates the risks of AI in medicine.
The Trump administration wants to build data center projects on Superfund sites, and with as little oversight as possible.
After last week’s hack, the app has been breached again.
Getting copied is devastating — but not necessarily illegal. Who owns what in an era of unprecedented mass consumption?
They say Columbia is just one of five universities they’ve penetrated.
A musician’s dream begins on social media. So what happens next?
An investigative feature on the regime’s attempts to track down defectors using a vast surveillance dragnet and local muscle.
The Trump administration’s war on DEI is spurring scientists and researchers from Indigenous communities to seek new protections for their data.
Confronting Francis Ford Coppola’s Vietnam War film five decades later.
How the Vietnam War’s most horrific photograph became a benchmark for content moderation on social media platforms.
Can the impact of a conflict be measured? Can we reckon with what’s quantifiable?
A US military psy-op tried to scare Viet Cong soldiers with tape recordings of Vietnamese “ghosts.”
A special series from The Verge that confronts the legacy and mythmaking of the Vietnam War, 50 years after the fall of Saigon.
Operation Babylift was an earnest attempt to save children during the fall of Saigon. Decades later, a generation of adoptees wrestles with the aftermath.
It used to be easy to kill a conspiracy theory. But the internet has made them immortal — and politically powerful.
The US wants to bring back domestic chipmaking. But the first generation of factory workers never got answers about their kids born with birth defects.
The internet is forever. Well, it was supposed to be. What happens when websites start to vanish at random?
The artist behind The Verge’s ‘Friend or Faux?’ feature explains the practical effects behind its design.
Can the legal system protect the vibe of a creator? And what if that vibe is basic?
The machines that process mail-in ballots help count thousands of votes in a day — and Philadelphia officials know that every second matters.
