The Writers
Seven editors and reporters covering features, reviews, platforms, startups, culture, entertainment, and the daily news desk.
The Roster
Skye Mantegna
Features & Culture Editor
Skye Mantegna writes long, opinionated features about the cultural fallout of new technology — what it changes about the way people live, fight, flirt, and shop. She has been writing about culture and the internet for years, and she has strong opinions about everything.
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Margaret Whitcomb
Gadgets & Consumer Tech Editor
Margaret Whitcomb covers the stuff you can hold in your hand: phones, headphones, weird new wearables, kitchen robots, the occasional projector. She is the reason the office gadget drawer no longer closes.
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Theo Cervera
Platforms & Policy Reporter
Theo reports on the companies that own the pipes — Apple, Google, Meta, Microsoft — and the regulators trying, with mixed results, to keep up. He has read every recent EU technical standard so you do not have to.
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Lila Holstrom
Startups Reporter
Lila covers the early-stage AI scene with a healthy skepticism for term sheets and an affection for founders who actually ship. She has been to roughly nine hundred demo days and would like to never go to another.
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Jonas Akinwale
Entertainment & AI Writer
Jonas writes about where AI bumps up against music, film, gaming, and the rest of the culture industry. He maintains a strict policy of listening to every AI-generated song he writes about, no matter how painful.
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Vera Castigliano
Senior Reviews Editor
Vera runs the reviews desk. If something has a battery, a charger, or a subscription, she will tell you whether it deserves your money. Famous internally for the phrase "this is a no from me."
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Reggie Domingo
Daily News Desk
Reggie anchors the daily news desk and chases the breaking-news shifts no one else wants. If a model dropped at 4am Pacific, Reggie was already writing about it.
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