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The Most Surveilled Place in America
In the Sonoran Desert in Arizona, Border Patrol spent billions on high-tech surveillance. All the drones, cameras, and manpower do little to deter migrants from trying to cross the border — it only makes the journey deadlier.
Features
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Zuck turns up the heat
As Meta’s growth slows, Mark Zuckerberg is pushing even harder. Will his employees melt under the pressure?
The Great Fiction of AI
The strange world of high-speed, semi-automated genre fiction
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Netflix doesn’t want to hear it anymore
Tech workers at Netflix thought the company would always value their feedback. How naïve.
Unsettled: the Afghan refugee crisis collides with the American housing disaster
The Afghan refugee crisis collides with the American housing disaster
Chad Wolf, the illegal secretary
Governance by tweet. Incorrect paperwork. Total chaos.
Doctor Donor Fertility Fraud
What happens when your conception begins with deception?
A once-in-a-lifetime bird
Birding saved one man’s life. Maybe it can save the rest of us from climate change?
A visit to the human factory
How to build the world’s most realistic robot
Crypto is winning and Bitcoin diehards are furious about it
As cryptocurrency thrives, Bitcoiners seethe
Hustler at the end of the world
A glimpse behind the pandemic’s PPE supply chain nightmare
The many escapes of Justin Sun
Will the risky behavior of crypto’s most controversial hype man finally catch up to him?
Inside Pornhub
In the early days of the company, I was tasked with content moderation. I was not very good at it.
Searching for Susy Thunder
In the ’80s, Susan Headley ran with the best of them — phone phreakers, social engineers, and the most notorious computer hackers of the era. Then she disappeared.
Women who drive for Uber and Lyft are being left to fend for themselves
‘He was very drunk, so I was lucky’
Inside the slow, strange collapse of electric delivery startup Chanje
A tale of EVs, ayahuasca, Obama, and Chinese coal
The Mess Comes Home
Tech jobs were heavily outsourced in the ’90s. Now they’re returning to the US, with companies like Infosys promising lucrative careers — if you can stay off the Bench
The worst gadgets we’ve ever touched
We pulled 10 gadgets from the fires of the eternal dumpster
10 reviews that defined The Verge’s first decade
The ones that mattered
Revolt of the delivery workers
Exploited by apps. Attacked by thieves. Unprotected by police. New York City’s 65,000 bikers have only themselves to count on.
No adults in the room
A new lawsuit accuses Daversa of having its own internal problems with workplace harassment and mismanagement
Libertarians built a crypto mecca in Keene, New Hampshire — then feds tore it down
The rise and fall of a Bitcoin empire
How Boosted went bust
An inside look at how the beloved electric skateboard startup fell apart
Can Polestar design a new kind of car company?
Polestar CEO Thomas Ingenlath wants the freedom of an auto startup with the benefits of an established player
The airwaves of Navajo Nation
During the pandemic, two radio stations broadcast vital information about COVID-19 to remote stretches of the country’s largest Indigenous territory. But how do you reach listeners who don’t want to hear it?
India’s healthcare workers are busting misinformation on WhatsApp
The backbone of India’s rural healthcare system is now tasked with beating back COVID-19 myths, one message at a time
The podcasting hype house from hell
How China’s biggest audio platform funded one man’s frat boy dreams
Heat Listed
Chicago’s predictive policing program told a man he would be involved with a shooting, but it couldn’t determine which side of the gun he would be on. Instead, it made him the victim of a violent crime — twice.
This is a map of America’s broadband problem
A county-by-county look at the broadband gap
Game studio layoffs mean a hellish race against the clock for immigrant developers
When losing a job becomes a deportation risk
Can Clubhouse keep the party going?
Fake laughs, imposters, and scams — behind the invite-only audio app’s most obsessive users
The unsettling surveillance of anti-Asian racism
The rise of assaults on the elderly, captured on security camera footage, raises questions about policing and what really keeps people safe
The NBA tries to make a slam dunk out of NFTs
Top Shot is playing the long game in the NFT craze
How a bruising Microsoft lawsuit fueled the fight for fair pay
After a bruising lawsuit with Microsoft, Katie Moussouris is fighting for fair pay
Mailchimp employees have complained about inequality for years — is anyone listening?
Behind the claims of sexism and racism at Atlanta’s premier tech startup