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Politics, world news, photos, video, tech reviews, health, science, and entertainment news. twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # Matt Vella ## Matt Vella ## Matt Vella *  May 10, 2018 ### [Francis Ford Coppola on Art, Immigration and Going to School with Donald Trump](https://time.com/5272351/francis-ford-coppola-art-donald-trump/) [ENTERTAINMENT](/section/entertainment/) *  Nov 20, 2017 ### [Top 10 Video Games](https://time.com/5030122/top-10-video-games-2017/) The most noteworthy games that came to the Switch, Xbox One, PS4, and PC in 2017 [BUSINESS](/section/business/) *  Jun 22, 2017 ### [What Silicon Valley Can Learn from Travis Kalanick's Uber Fail](https://time.com/4828097/what-silicon-valley-can-learn-from-travis-kalanicks-uber-fail/) [WORLD](/section/world/) *  Jun 21, 2017 ### [Silicon Valley Needs to Rewrite Its Hero-Founder Myth](https://time.com/4826416/uber-travis-kalanick-hero-myth/) That's the lesson in Uber CEO Travis Kalanick's stunning fall [IDEAS](/section/ideas/) *  Jun 15, 2017 ### [Uber Fail: Upheaval at the World’s Most Valuable Startup](https://time.com/4819557/uber-fail-upheaval-is-wake-up-call/) Chaos at the world's most valuable venture-backed company is forcing Silicon Valley to question its ... [BUSINESS](/section/business/) *  May 23, 2017 ### [We Ranked the 40 Greatest _Star Wars_ Moments](https://time.com/4788422/best-star-wars-moments/) From Yoda's wisdom to Vader's rage, these are the most influential and memorable beats of a 40-year-... [ENTERTAINMENT](/section/entertainment/) *  Apr 13, 2017 ### [Universal Basic Income: A Utopian Idea Whose Time May Finally Have Arrived](https://time.com/4737956/universal-basic-income/) A 500-year-old idea may hold the key to solving some of the world's most vexing economic problems [BUSINESS](/section/business/) *  Apr 13, 2017 ### [Tesla's Electric Shock](https://time.com/4737950/teslas-electric-shock/) [WORLD](/section/world/) *  Apr 7, 2017 ### [We Ranked Every Possible Detail of the _Fast & Furious_ Movies](https://time.com/4726355/fast-and-the-furious-movies-ranked/) [ENTERTAINMENT](/section/entertainment/) *  Apr 6, 2017 ### [Gilbert Baker, Who Designed the Rainbow LGBTQ Pride Flag](https://time.com/4728310/gilbert-baker-baker-rainbow-flag-lgbtq/) 'He was moved by the idea that it is not only a natural phenomenon but one you have to be in the rig... [IDEAS](/section/ideas/) *  Jan 31, 2017 ### [The 25 Most Influential Super Bowl Ads of All Time](https://time.com/4653281/super-bowl-ads-commercials-most-influential-time/) From talking frogs to co-opted Internet memes, we ranked the most important game day ads ever [BUSINESS](/section/business/) *  Jan 13, 2017 ### [Nintendo Switch Price Revealed During Livestream](https://time.com/4634072/nintendo-switch-price/) The Japanese company's new console will cost $299 when it becomes available in March [BUSINESS](/section/business/) *  Dec 27, 2016 ### [Tina Fey Remembers Carrie Fisher: 'I Feel So Lucky That I Got to Meet Her'](https://time.com/4618491/carrie-fisher-dead-tina-fey/) The two actor-writers worked together on the second season of 30 Rock [ENTERTAINMENT](/section/entertainment/) *  Dec 27, 2016 ### [Did Virtual Reality Experience a New Dawn or a Massive Flop This Year?](https://time.com/4618376/virtual-reality-success-or-flop/) The long-heralded technology had its coming out with several new, consumer-oriented headsets. But VR... [BUSINESS](/section/business/) *  Oct 27, 2016 ### [A Shocking Internet Attack Shows America's Vulnerability](https://time.com/4547329/a-shocking-internet-attack-shows-americas-vulnerability/) [BUSINESS](/section/business/) Meta: null ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"Organization","@id":"https://time.com/","name":"TIME","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/","name":"Home"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/author/matt-vella/","name":"Matt Vella"}}]},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"Person","@id":"https://time.com/author/matt-vella/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/author/matt-vella/"},"name":"Matt Vella","jobTitle":null,"description":"","url":"https://time.com/author/matt-vella/","worksFor":{"@type":"Organization","name":"TIME","url":"https://time.com/"}}] ```