Heartbreaking: the most terminally online reporter you know just made a great print.

The Safe Street Rebel group has waged a war against robotaxis in an effort to end vehicle dominance in the city and promote public transport

Christianity formed my deepest instincts, and I have been walking away from it for half my life.

Not an artistic judgement. Just a technical one.

Wherein The Funny Rabbit On Your Phone Rambles Aimlessly About Conventions, Drug Abuse, And The Current State Of Digital Interaction In An Era Of Social Monopoly

Real Life is a magazine about living with technology. The emphasis is more on living. We publish one piece a day—essays, features, uncategorizable—four or five days a week. We launched with funding from Snapchat, but we operate with editorial independence and without ads.

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WSJ's Joanna Stern put on a headset to live in the virtual world for 24 hours and shares what she learned.

One customer asked for "a Sprite, extra spicy."

We've got a crossposted episode for you this week: Mike recently joined The Cato Daily Podcast with Caleb O. Brown for a discussion about the "hacking" fiasco in Missouri and the state's treatment of the journalists who exposed its...

The Verge is a big thing that feels small; we’re going to keep it that way.

After a decade covering the Zucks, Googles, and Ubers of the scene, the Verge editor in chief reflects on tech’s troublesome relationship with the rest of the world.

Laffy Taffy created a dream joke writing job. But is it real?

Cryptocurrency promises to liberate the monetary system from the clutches of the powerful. Instead, it mostly functions to make wealthy speculators even wealthier.

The RZA is one of the godfathers of hip-hop and leader of the Wu-Tang Clan. Naturally, we invited him on to ask him three questions about Tang, one of the godfathers of powdered orange drinks.

The Vergecast discuss the Apple’s fall hardware event

A new promo message for Microsoft Teams broke the Windows desktop shell and the taskbar for Windows 11 Insider users. Why can cloud services break Windows PCs?

Wilbert Awdry, who created Thomas the Tank Engine, disliked change, venerated order, and craved the administration of punishment.

Photographer Vinca Petersen recounts how a movement born of music and hedonism quickly became a vehicle for civil disobedience and defiance of authority.

iPhone Photography Awards (IPPAWARDS) is the first and the longest running iPhone photography competition since 2007.

Andrew Brown comes face to face with his academic nemesis

“To be truly countercultural in a time of tech hegemony, one has to, above all, betray the platform.”

The Windows Vista song is spot-on.

The Ringed City, while a beautiful way to conclude Dark Souls, mostly left us with nothing but questions. As time went on, more and more…

A new history of Christian communism glosses over the tradition’s complications in the interest of a statist conclusion.

A curated list of sites with an extra bit of fun.

In the late 2000s I was sleeping with all of my friends. This didn’t make me special; we were young in one of the several ways people move to cities like New York in order to be young. We were in general not doing much with our lives and so we did what generation after generation of young people have done in order to combat that particular circumstance: We tried to generate enough sex drama amongst ourselves that we didn’t have to notice that we weren’t doing much of anything, that things were harder than they were promised to be, that we had very little money and that everyone else seemed ...

There is a moment in "Shrek" when the despicable Lord Farquaad has the Gingerbread Man tortured by dipping him into milk. This prepares us for another moment when Princess Fiona's singing voice is so piercing it causes jolly little bluebirds to explode; making the best of a bad situation, she fries their eggs. This is not your average family cartoon. "Shrek" is jolly and wicked, filled with sly in-jokes and yet somehow possessing a heart.

In our November cover story, Taylor Swift talks to Chuck Klosterman about whether or not she really hates Katy Perry