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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.

The quickly disappearing web

The internet is forever. Well, it was supposed to be. What happens when websites start to vanish at random?

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How one creator visualized AI by using very little AI

The artist behind The Verge’s ‘Friend or Faux?’ feature explains the practical effects behind its design.

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President Joe Biden wanted Gigi Sohn to fix America’s internet — what went wrong?

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