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The NYC subway’s new tap-to-pay system has a hidden cost — rider data

Dr Disrespect is the villain who could change the future of TV

Guy ‘Dr Disrespect’ Beahm opens up about his Twitch alter ego

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The art and craft of scientific glassblowing

Modern chemistry still needs glassblowers

This little self-driving boat is changing the way we search for shipwrecks

This backpack has it all: Kevlar, batteries, and a federal investigation

Pack of lies

The Verge tech survey 2020

We polled Americans about which big tech companies they trust with their personal information

Robots aren’t taking our jobs — they’re becoming our bosses

To expose sexism at Uber, Susan Fowler blew up her life

The risks and rewards of blowing the whistle at Uber

Inside Clinc, the AI startup facing troubling allegations of sexual harassment

Behind the scenes, employees allege a pattern of inappropriate behavior and are speaking out

As Lambda students speak out, the school’s debt-swapping partnership disappears from the internet

The company has partnered with Edly to sell ISAs to investors

The high cost of a free coding bootcamp

Students at Lambda School say the program hasn’t delivered on its promise

The Craigslist of guns: inside the online “gun show that never ends”

Armslist: the online marketplace of guns

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Ikea 2.0: inside the furniture giant’s big bet on the smart home

The Swedish furniture giant has conquered living rooms, bedrooms, and bathrooms — but can it hang on to the future of the home?

Google and YouTube moderators speak out on the work that gave them PTSD

They scrub the internet of violent and disturbing content, and it haunts them forever

Exclusive: documents show Foxconn refuses to renegotiate Wisconsin deal

Why won’t Foxconn tell Wisconsin what it’s building?

Emotional baggage: inside the toxic work environment at Away

Away’s founders sold a vision of travel and inclusion, but former employees say it masked a toxic work environment

The dark side of electronic waste recycling

How an e-waste sting uncovered a shocking betrayal

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The Last Stand

As insect invaders approach, researchers use a combination of indigenous knowledge and Western forestry science to save a valuable tradition

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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

The flying taxi future is coming, but it’s elitist and underwhelming

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

The everything town in the middle of nowhere

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

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

The lonely ballad of the fuck button

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

In the hot seat

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

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

Can an electric car startup save itself from its founder?

Rising Signs: Inside astrology app Co—Star

It’s feeding millennials’ astrological fascinations with mystical algorithms and an old-school approach to the zodiac

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Read the full transcript of Mark Zuckerberg’s leaked internal Facebook meetings

Highlights from two hours of leaked audio from recent Q&A sessions with Facebook’s CEO

In leaked audio, Mark Zuckerberg rallies Facebook against critics and the US government

‘Go to the mat and fight’

Storm chasers are searching the clouds for the key to climate change

"It is the intellectual and experimental challenge of our lifetime."

The high hopes of the low-tech phone

How the phone of the future hid a multimillion-dollar fraud campaign

Ferguson five years after the killing of Michael Brown

The 2014 protests made it a focal point for police brutality, but now Ferguson faces many other challenges

Meet the US’s spy system of the future — it’s Sentient

The classified artificial brain being developed by US intelligence programs

Big Alcohol is pouring billions into weed drinks, but does anybody want it?

No one is more nervous about the legalization of marijuana than the beer industry

They said you could leave electric scooters anywhere — then the repo men struck back

How Joey Salads could meme his way into Congress

The YouTuber brings his pranks — and reactionary dog-whistles — on the campaign trail.

Nomads travel to America’s Walmarts to stock Amazon’s shelves

To stock Amazon’s shelves, merchants travel the backroads of America in search of rare soap and coveted toys