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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.

How the Hmong diaspora uses the world’s most boring technology to make something weird and wonderful

Reimagining the conference call line as a radio show

Mia Sato
Tesla Cybertruck first ride: inside Elon Musk’s electric pickup truck
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Riding shotgun in the polarizing prototype

Sean O'Kane
The flying taxi future is coming, but it’s elitist and underwhelming

German startup Volocopter unveiled a new flying taxi station in Singapore, but it was gone within a week

Alexis Ong
Volkswagen’s ID Space Vizzion is an electric wagon that goes 300 miles

With electric longboards in the trunk

Sean O'Kane
Audi reveals its second electric car, the E-Tron Sportback

Coming to Europe in 2020 with over 200 miles of range

Sean O'Kane
The Afghan DJs hired and abandoned by the US military

They were hired to help with the war effort—and when the American military pulled out, those voices were left for dead

Christopher Harland-Dunaway
Up close with Ford’s electric Mustang SUV, the Mach-E
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Let the arguments begin

Sean O'Kane
The everything town in the middle of nowhere

How the tiny town of Roundup, Montana, became a hub in Amazon’s supply chain

Josh Dzieza
Behind Color Factory, one of the photogenic pop-ups trying to conquer the experience economy

Hair balls, random dicks, and other things that happen when humans storm your pop-up

Ashley Carman
The lonely ballad of the fuck button

LoveSync was meant for couples struggling in the bedroom — instead its crowdfunding campaign became a viral joke

Megan Farokhmanesh
In the hot seat

Behind Hot Ones’ ambitions to be the future of late-night TV

Bijan Stephen
What DC Comics needs to learn from Joker’s success

The film is a model for the future of DC’s films and a throwback to the company’s best years

Daniel Joyaux
Faraday Future’s still haunted by the past of its billionaire founder

Can an electric car startup save itself from its founder?

Sean O'Kane
Lexus teases its first electric vehicles with a wild drone-deploying concept car

The LF-30 is a weird harbinger of Lexus’ electric future

Sean O'Kane
Cinema’s digital impostors are coming

From Rogue One to Gemini Man, the rules around digital actor replacements are changing

Charles Bramesco
The Pixel 4 is more like an iPhone than any other Android phone

Google is bridging the gap between iOS and Android

Tom Warren
A closer look at the XC40 Recharge, Volvo’s first electric car

The XC40 Recharge won’t blow people away or engender rapturous headlines like the Tesla Model 3 or the Porsche Taycan, but it may actually have more to say

Andrew J. Hawkins