How to build the best keyboard in the world

How to build the best keyboard in the world

Ryan Norbauer in his garage / workshop. | Photo: Taeha Kim / Norbauer & Co. The term “endgame,” among keyboard enthusiasts, is sort of a running gag. Endgame is when you finally dial in your perfect layout, case, features, switches, and keycaps, so you...
The stunning reversal of humanity’s oldest bias

The stunning reversal of humanity’s oldest bias

The Economist estimated that the decline in sex preference at birth in the past 25 years has saved the equivalent of 7 million girls. | Antoine Lassalle/Getty Images Perhaps the oldest, most pernicious form of human bias is that of men toward women. It often started...
Would you switch browsers for a chatbot?

Would you switch browsers for a chatbot?

Hi, friends! Welcome to Installer No. 87, your guide to the best and Verge-iest stuff in the world. (If you’re new here, welcome, happy It’s Officially Too Hot Now Week, and also you can read all the old editions at the Installer homepage.) This week,...
Tanks, guns and face-painting

Tanks, guns and face-painting

Of all the jarring things I’ve witnessed on the National Mall, nothing will beat the image of the first thing I saw after I cleared security at the Army festival: a child, sitting at the controls of an M119A3 Howitzer, being instructed by a soldier on how to aim...
No Kings: protests in the eye of the storm

No Kings: protests in the eye of the storm

Demonstrators in Los Angeles marched alongside an inflatable Donald Trump baby dressed in a diaper. As President Donald Trump kicked off a birthday military parade on the streets of Washington, DC, what’s estimated as roughly 2,000 events were held across the US...