Longform
Featuring beautiful illustrations, original photography, and engaging interactives, our Longform program invites readers to explore the spectrum of the subjects The Verge covers — tech, science, culture and transportation — in unbridled depth. Whether it’s a personal essay, a years-in-the-making investigation, or gripping narrative-driven feature, every piece in the Longform program is an opportunity to get the full story.
CMU's Head of Machine Learning on how humanity and AI will be inseparable
While some predict mass unemployment or all-out war between humans and artificial intelligence, others foresee a less bleak future.
Google X's Astro Teller on why delivery drones will mean the end of ownership
For the past five years the face of Google X has been Astro Teller, the so-called "Captain of Moonshots." For him, X is not a lab that churns out immediately useable technology or marketable products, but a place where innovation is "systemized" — imagine Henry Ford’s assembly line, but for ideas.
TaskRabbit's CEO on why people will still power an AI workforce
Five to 10 years from now, in my home, things will be largely solved so that I can spend more time with my family. You can imagine a world where you often spend time thinking about all the things that you need to do, but there will be so much automation that some of those things will be figured out for you.
Google Pixel review: Home run
Android by Google
Speak, Memory
When her best friend died, she rebuilt him using artificial intelligence
The inside story of Google’s bold bet on hardware
The inside story of Google’s bold bet on hardware
Rise of the RoboMasters
We went to China's Silicon Valley to see the front lines of the robot wars
iPhone 7 and 7 Plus review
The future in disguise
Welcome to Uberville
Uber wants to take over public transit, one small town at a time
Rewriting the tablet
How Lenovo brought a dream design to life
All Queens Must Die
On Santa Cruz Island, they killed the cows, sheep, and bees. Now it’s time to finish the job
Train to Nowhere
How Cincinnati tried, and failed, to build one of America’s first subways
Welcome to AirSpace
How Silicon Valley helps spread the same sterile aesthetic across the world
Facebook takes flight
Inside the test flight of Facebook’s first internet drone
Facebook 2026
Mark Zuckerberg on his plan to bring the internet to every human on earth
Eat, Pay, Love
A new app lets women charge for a night out. Will dating join the on-demand economy?
How Mr. Robot’s creator took the reins of season two
How Mr. Robot’s creator took the reins of season two
Exclusive: Why Microsoft is betting its future on AI
Inside Satya Nadella’s plan to outsmart Google
Dream Park
My partner and I step through a portal and into a bright, vaguely Mayan temple. I pick up a torch to light the way, and we set off on our adventure: over the course of less than ten minutes, we find a hidden passage,
E-Waste Empire
New York City discards millions of pounds of dead electronics each year. We follow its path from shelf to shredder
An exclusive look inside Microsoft’s plan to turn your Xbox into a PC
An exclusive look inside Microsoft’s plan to turn your Xbox into a PC
Duncan Jones went through personal hell while making Warcraft — and survived
Duncan Jones went through personal hell while making Warcraft — and survived
GoPro needs a hero
Can a shift to software save the action camera giant?
Dinner is Shipped
From Blue Apron to Plated, the definitive ranking of meals delivered in boxes
A Bitter Pill
Josiah Zayner’s gut was making his life hell — so he embarked on an extreme DIY fecal transplant
The secret rules of the internet
The murky history of moderation, and how it’s shaping the future of free speech
The Secret Six
A half-dozen groundbreaking Ferraris were built for the Prince of Brunei. Only one made it out of the jungle
Jimmyjane took vibrators from sleazy to chic — now, can it take them mainstream?
Jimmyjane took vibrators from sleazy to chic — now, can it take them mainstream?
Oculus Rift review
Virtual reality is always almost here
Remote, Controlled
How Vizio and Google radically reinvented the TV
Michelle Obama 360: An exclusive look at how the First Lady mastered social media
An exclusive look at how the First Lady mastered social media
The Dragonslayer
An exclusive interview with FCC Chair Tom Wheeler, the man who saved the internet
Life and death in the App Store
How a once-popular indie development studio found itself months from the end
The self-driving utopia we almost had
How we found (and lost) the dream of Personal Rapid Transit