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Stories on the best and most important gadgets and platforms that launched in 2004 and pieces about the cultural events that still affect the way we live now. The Verge, blogging like it’s 2004.

Right now, everyone seems ready to throw down. More than ever, it’s important to fight smart—and not give up until you land a decisive blow.

A special series from The Verge that confronts the legacy and mythmaking of the Vietnam War, 50 years after the fall of Saigon.

Twitter used to be so many things. A kind of melancholic look back at its place in our culture and society.

An interactive comic that kind of proves the web is still where it's at

A special series exploring two decades of American life under the Department of Homeland Security

Twenty-nine years ago, officers of the Los Angeles Police Department beat Rodney King nearly to death. It was filmed by George Holliday, a bystander with a Sony Video8 Handycam, and the resulting footage, broadcast by news stations nationwide, was graphically violent and shocking. When the four officers were later acquitted, LA descended into riots.

In 2017, President Donald Trump and the Wisconsin GOP struck a deal with Foxconn that promised to turn Southeastern Wisconsin into a tech manufacturing powerhouse.

Stunning story of a natural disaster

The network of routes known as the Silk Road connected Asia and Europe for centuries before fading in importance in the 1400s. Now, Hewlett-Packard has revived the route as a faster, overland alternative to shipping electronics from China to European markets by sea. A look at one section of the modern-day route, now more commonly traveled by train instead of by camel.

Humanity is ramping up the risk of global health disasters by intruding deep into the world’s bat habitats, breeding grounds for deadly viruses. In this five-part series, Reuters pinpoints the places where the next outbreaks are likeliest.