Why I love my Brother 1034D Serger

Cath Virginia is the senior designer here at The Verge, who creates illustrations and collages for our articles. However, she also has “dabbled” (as she puts it) in feature designs for articles such as 2004 was the first year of the future (which won the 2025 ASME Award for Best News and Entertainment Design), How…

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Why I love the Calligraphr font-creation app

Kristen Radtke is creative director at The Verge. “I work with the art team on the overall look and feel of the site across illustrations, photos, and branding,” she explains. “I also design feature stories and custom packages.” One of her favorite software packages is Calligraphr, and so we asked her about it. What exactly…

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If you can make this AI bot fall in love, you could win thousands of dollars

Ever wondered if you could get an AI bot to fall in love with you? Now you have the chance.  Freysa.ai is a team of anonymous developers building a series of increasingly meta challenges designed to influence how humans think about AI safety. The third challenge is starting sometime in the next 24 hours (you can…

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Auriea Harvey’s Digital Worlds Are Love Stories, Without Neat Ends

Installed on vintage hardware at the Museum of the Moving Image in Astoria, Queens, laid out chronologically, the first career survey of the innovative Net artist Auriea Harvey tells a story about mortality, and survival. In Harvey’s jewel-box worlds, there aren’t heroes or villains, just people, losing and loving, enmeshed in the slipstream of tech….

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