Matt Vella

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Francis Ford Coppola on Art, Immigration and Going to School with Donald Trump

The filmmaker on making art in Hollywood, immigration and going to Donald Trump's school Wine, hotels, films are all businesses in which you've had success. What has one taught you about the other? It's all...

By Matt Vella

Top 10 Video Games

The most noteworthy games that came to the Switch, Xbox One, PS4, and PC in 2017

By Lisa Eadicicco and Matt Vella

What Silicon Valley Can Learn from Travis Kalanick's Uber Fail

Travis Kalanick, Uber's brash and embattled CEO, is out. After months of pummelingly bad news for Kalanick and his eight-year-old ride-hailing startup, pressure from investors in the near $70 billion company forced Kalanick to relinquish...

By Matt Vella

Silicon Valley Needs to Rewrite Its Hero-Founder Myth

That's the lesson in Uber CEO Travis Kalanick's stunning fall

By Matt Vella

Uber Fail: Upheaval at the World’s Most Valuable Startup

Chaos at the world's most valuable venture-backed company is forcing Silicon Valley to question its values

By Katy Steinmetz and Matt Vella

We Ranked the 40 Greatest Star Wars Moments

From Yoda's wisdom to Vader's rage, these are the most influential and memorable beats of a 40-year-old franchise

By Eliana Dockterman , Alex Fitzpatrick , Megan McCluskey and Matt Vella

Universal Basic Income: A Utopian Idea Whose Time May Finally Have Arrived

A 500-year-old idea may hold the key to solving some of the world's most vexing economic problems

By Matt Vella

Tesla's Electric Shock

Tesla, based in Palo Alto, Calif., is 14 years old, offers just three models and sells fewer cars annually than Ford sells hatchbacks. Yet on April 10, its market value reached $51.5 billion, surpassing GM's....

By Matt Vella

We Ranked Every Possible Detail of the Fast & Furious Movies

The eighth installment of the Fast & Furious franchise, Fate of the Furious, hits theaters April 14. Naturally, we watched every film to determine which movie was the fastest and furious-est of them all. We...

By Eliana Dockterman and Matt Vella

Gilbert Baker, Who Designed the Rainbow LGBTQ Pride Flag

'He was moved by the idea that it is not only a natural phenomenon but one you have to be in the right place at the right time to see'

By Matt Vella

The 25 Most Influential Super Bowl Ads of All Time

From talking frogs to co-opted Internet memes, we ranked the most important game day ads ever

By Alex Fitzpatrick , Olivia B. Waxman , Ashley Hoffman , Josh Sanburn , Megan McCluskey , Cady Lang , Lily Rothman , Raisa Bruner , Daniel D'Addario and Matt Vella

Nintendo Switch Price Revealed During Livestream

The Japanese company's new console will cost $299 when it becomes available in March

By Matt Vella

Tina Fey Remembers Carrie Fisher: 'I Feel So Lucky That I Got to Meet Her'

The two actor-writers worked together on the second season of 30 Rock

By Matt Vella

Did Virtual Reality Experience a New Dawn or a Massive Flop This Year?

The long-heralded technology had its coming out with several new, consumer-oriented headsets. But VR’s future seems anything but certain

By Matt Peckham and Matt Vella

Person of the Year 2016 Runner-Up: The Hackers

[time-ad size="large"] BY MATT VELLA Hackers have a bad name everywhere, it seems, except in Silicon Valley, founded as it was on the virtues of creatively overcoming technical limits by any means. This tradition produced...

By Matt Vella

A Shocking Internet Attack Shows America's Vulnerability

The Internet began to wobble at 7 a.m. Early on Oct. 21, servers at a little-known Internet infrastructure company, Dyn, based in Manchester, N.H., began experiencing an overwhelming flood of malicious traffic. By midday a...

By Haley Sweetland Edwards and Matt Vella

The 50 Best Video Games of All Time

From arcade classics to recent console hits, these are the 50 greatest games ever

By Alex Fitzpatrick , John Patrick Pullen , Josh Raab , Lev Grossman , Lisa Eadicicco , Matt Peckham and Matt Vella

The Pokémon Fad Shows the Unnerving Future of Augmenting Reality

'Pokemon Go' is more than a hit video game, it's a glimpse into a future we don't fully understand

By Matt Vella

Microsoft's LinkedIn Buy Proves Social Media Is Graying

In Silicon Valley, five years might as well be an epoch. When LinkedIn, the online network geared for professionals, went public in May 2011, it was heralded as the opening of a lucrative new frontier...

By Matt Vella

The 'Panama Papers' Expose the Secret World of the 1%

The leak has already had major consequences

By Rana Foroohar and Matt Vella
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