The Verge is an American technology news website headquartered in Lower Manhattan, New York City and operated by Vox Media.

[10][11] Between March and April 2011, up to nine of Engadget's writers, editors, and product developers, including editor-in-chief Joshua Topolsky, left AOL, the company behind that website, to start a new gadget site.

[12][15][16] In early April 2011, Topolsky announced that their unnamed new site would be produced in partnership with sports news website SB Nation, debuting some time in the fall.

[15][17] Topolsky lauded SB Nation's similar interest in the future of publishing, including what he described as their beliefs in independent journalism and in-house development of their own content delivery tools.

[23] Development of Vox Media's content management system (CMS), Chorus, was led by Trei Brundrett, who later became the chief operating officer for the company.

[24] Following news of his untitled partnership with SB Nation in April 2011, Topolsky announced that the Engadget podcast hosted by Patel, Paul Miller, and himself would continue at an interim site called This Is My Next.

[citation needed] On June 11, 2014, The Verge launched a new section called "This Is My Next", edited by former editor David Pierce, as a buyer's guide for consumer electronics.

[2] It hired Tom Warren, former Neowin editor-in-chief and WinRumors blogger, as their new United Kingdom based senior editor.

[41] The Verge rebranded and redesigned its website in September 2022 with a sharper, more simplistic logo, more colorful visual design, and new typefaces.

Its new home page format resembled a news feed, incorporating external conversations from social media and reporting from other publications.

[42] In December 2024, The Verge began to paywall some content behind a subscription service; this offering covers "premium" reports, newsletters, and reviews, as well as fewer advertisements and other features.

Patel also writes in the post that the reason for moving to a subscription model was for the site to survive an increasingly difficult market for "the kind rigorous, independent journalism we want to do."

[59] Circuit Breaker, a gadget blog, launched in 2016,[60] has amassed nearly one million Facebook followers and debuted a live show on Twitter in October 2017.

[62] In December, Twitter and Vox Media announced a live streaming partnership for The Verge's programs covering the Consumer Electronics Show.

[63] The series Next Level, hosted and produced by Lauren Goode, debuted in 2017 and was recognized in the "Technology" category at the 47th annual San Francisco / Northern California Emmy Awards (2018).

[64][65] In August 2017, The Verge launched the web series Space Craft, hosted by science reporter Loren Grush.

In the video, Etienne admits not being an experienced builder when he assembled the PC, having built only four computers at that point, with The Verge build being his first on camera.