How to future-proof a 30-year-old computer
Verge producer Will Poor attempts to fix up his family’s Mac Classic. The journey takes him to the finer points of soldering, message board...
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Pirate Radio » The PIRATE Act
Congress is in the process of passing a non-partisan bill to increase support for enforcement against illegal pirate radio operations: Fines...
Pirate Radio » Dial Up!
How the Hmong diaspora uses the world's most boring technology to make something weird and wonderful. Episode two of The Verge's Pirate Radi...
Pirate Radio » Outside the wire
When the US entered Afghanistan, local DJs were hired to help with the war effort. And when the American military pulled out, they abandoned...
Machine Of Loving Grace | Better Worlds Pt. 5
Welcome to Better Worlds, The Verge's new series of short fiction, audio, and animation that explores how technology can shape our society a...
Skin City | Better Worlds Pt. 4
Welcome to Better Worlds, The Verge's new series of short fiction, audio, and animation that explores how technology can shape our society a...
The Burn | Better Worlds Pt. 3
Welcome to Better Worlds, The Verge's new series of short fiction, audio, and animation that explores how technology can shape our society a...
Monsters Come Howling in Their Season | Better Worlds Pt. 2
Welcome to Better Worlds, The Verge's new series of short fiction, audio, and animation that explores how technology can shape our society a...
Online Reunion | Better Worlds Pt. 1
Welcome to Better Worlds, The Verge's new series of short fiction, audio, and animation that explores how technology can shape our society a...
Introducing Better Worlds
Welcome to Better Worlds, The Verge's new series of short fiction, audio, and animation that explores how technology can shape our society a...
@dril tweets: a reading of his best work
Last month, Dril published Dril Official “Mr. Ten Years” Anniversary Collection, a 420-page collection of his best tweets of the last decade...
VR pioneer Jaron Lanier on dystopia, empathy, and the future of the internet
Jaron Lanier is one of virtual reality’s most recognizable figures. He’s credited with popularizing the term itself, and he co-founded VPL,...
Why watch people play video games?
About a month ago my colleague Dan Seifert admitted on Twitter to, basically, not understanding me as a person: "i will never understand the...
What to do when 20,000 bees unexpectedly swarm your Manhattan skyscraper
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Astronaut Samantha Cristoforetti on tweeting from space and brewing the first zero-G espresso
Samantha Cristoforetti is an Italian astronaut with the European Space Agency. She currently holds a few spaceflight records — including bei...
How to build your own personal Westworld
Last year in Los Angeles, a mysterious cult began recruiting people through emails, phone calls, and one-on-one consultations. For nine mont...
Astronauts Scott and Mark Kelly on NASA’s twin experiment and the future of space travel
Mark and Scott Kelly are the only twins that have ever traveled to space — and their experience will be invaluable if we want to get to Mars...
The Space Shuttle Columbia tragedy: a conversation with my parents who worked the accident
On February 1st, 2003, the Space Shuttle Columbia broke apart over Texas and Louisiana as it returned from a 16-day mission in space. The ca...
Keystone XL and Dakota Access pipelines controversy explained
Now that President Trump has resurrected the hotly contested Keystone XL and Dakota Access Pipelines, here's what you need to know about the...
The delicate science of counting crowds
Here’s how we know how many people were in the crowd for Donald Trump’s inauguration — and why you won’t hear the number on TV. www.youtube....