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Star Wars: The Bad Batch‘s Producers Break Down That Big Premiere Cameo

Lucasfilm Animation’s Star Wars: The Bad Batch is here, and Clone Force 99’s big new adventure on Disney+ opened with a bang. But as the new series began in the final moments of the Star Wars prequel’s darkest hour, the show made some touching connections to the stories that came before it—an important connection Bad…

io9 James Whitbrook

If the Paris Agreement Fails, Sea Levels Could Rise 33 Feet

If we keep on the path we’re on, Antarctica might be really, truly toast. A new study shows that the continent might hit a tipping point within this century if we don’t keep warming in check, and we might be in for dozens of feat of sea level rise as a result. The study, published…

Climate Change Molly Taft

Useful Website Calculates How Hard You’ll Have to Binge a Show to Finish It in Time

Netflix’s new “Play Something” feature, which randomly serves up a show from the streaming service’s vast catalog, can be a risky way to get hooked on a new series. To ensure you don’t end up a couch hermit, Brian Yung’s Can I Binge website lets you calculate how long a show will take to finish,…

Gadgets Andrew Liszewski

Nintendo Teases More Animated Plans for Future Movies

The Toxic Avenger remake recruits another star. Robert Kirkman teases some directions the next few seasons of Invincible could go in. The Flash recruits a familiar face for its 150th episode. Plus, get new looks at Spiral, The Suicide Squad, The Green Knight, and more. Spoilers go! The Toxic Avenger Deadline reports Taylour Paige (Ma…

Television James Whitbrook & Gordon Jackson

Oversight Board Finds Facebook Took the Coward’s Way Out With Trump Ban, Also Takes Coward’s Way Out

America may have to wait another six months to find out whether Facebook has the capacity to make a good decision. On Wednesday, Facebook’s Oversight Board announced that it would uphold the social media network’s decision to suspend Donald Trump from its main site and Instagram after he rallied his supporters to attack the Capitol…

Tech News Tom McKay

12 Things You Didn’t Know You Could Do With Your Amazon Kindle

Your Kindle e-reader isn’t the kind of gadget you upgrade all that often, and you might have one that’s been serving you well for years. But that doesn’t necessarily mean you know everything that Amazon’s e-reader can do. Here are some of the lesser-known features and settings you can play around with on your Kindle,…

Gadgets David Nield

U.S. Military Doesn’t Know Where Chinese Space Debris Might Land

The U.S. military is tracking an enormous piece of Chinese space debris which is expected to reenter the Earth’s atmosphere sometime around May 8, according to a press release from U.S. Space Command. But as the Pentagon points out, no one knows quite where it will land yet. The space debris in question is formally…

Space & Spaceflight Matt Novak

G7 Participants Test Positive for Covid-19 at Meeting That Should’ve Been a Zoom Call

India’s G7 delegation is self-isolating in London on Wednesday after two members tested positive for covid-19, according to the British government and a new report from Reuters. The positive cases are likely to spark the obvious question: Why wasn’t this meeting a Zoom call? “Two delegates tested positive so the entire delegation is now self…

Health Matt Novak

SpaceX’s Starlink Satellite Internet Orders Reportedly Already Exceed 500,000

Elon Musk’s SpaceX is having a banner year, and apparently things just keep getting better: On Tuesday, the company announced that it has received upwards of 500,000 orders for its satellite internet service, Starlink. “To date, over half a million people have placed an order or put down a deposit for Starlink,” SpaceX operations engineer…

Tech News Brianna Provenzano

The Flash Is Losing 2 Key Cast Members

Carlos Valdes and Tom Cavanagh are leaving the long-running series.

Television Cheryl Eddy

You Should Definitely Update Your Dell Computer Right Now

A public service announcement for anyone who, like me, is using a years-old Dell computer as their primary machine: Dell has released a security patch for a security vulnerability affecting close to 400 different computer models manufactured between 2009 and right now. That’s, uh, a lot of laptops. The vulnerability was discovered by security research…

Privacy & Security Florence Ion

Area Man Wants You To Check Out His Blog

After threatening for months to disrupt social media with a bespoke platform that would allow him to bypass community guidelines (and the embarrassingly long list of platforms he’s been banned from), our big patriotic boy has finally made good on his promise. Folks, the wait is over — the future is now, and it’s a…

Tech News Brianna Provenzano

Scientists Say You Can Have More Than 150 Friends, If You Want

In the early 1990s, a British anthropologist named Robin Dunbar argued that humans can’t handle more than 150 stable relationships based on the size of the human brain’s neocortex and observations of other primate groups socializing. Now, a team of researchers in Sweden say that number is bunk. The team argues that Dunbar’s number—really a…

Biology Isaac Schultz

Musicians Ask Spotify to Promise It’ll Never Use Its Creepy Speech-Recognition Patent

Earlier this year, Spotify was granted a patent for speech-recognition tech that could potentially recommend music based on your “emotional state, gender, age, or accent.” Now, a coalition of more than 180 artists and human rights organizations has written Spotify a letter asking the company to publicly commit to abandoning the dystopian technology. The letter,…

Internet Victoria Song

Merry and Pippin Are Going Podcasting

These days everyone has a podcast, so why not a couple of hobbits talking about life in Middle-earth? That’s exactly what’s happening with The Friendship Onion, which will feature actors Dominic Monaghan and Billy Boyd talking all things pop culture—and in particular, the franchise that brought them together, The Lord of the Rings. “I am contractually obliged…

Movies Germain Lussier

Stop the Steal: ‘Hacker’ Homecoming Queen Charged as Adult in Vote-Changing Scandal

Authorities appear to have uncovered a vast, nefarious conspiracy to electronically rig an American election in favor of an illegitimate victor. Neither Deep State supercomputers nor Russian intelligence agencies are alleged to have been involved in this one, however. Instead, the election in question is the 2020 race for Homecoming Queen at Tate High School…

Privacy & Security Lucas Ropek

The Pentagon’s Inspector General Is Investigating the Pentagon’s UFO Investigation Program

The military UFO plot has, somehow, thickened yet again: The Inspector General of the Department of Defense is itself investigating the Pentagon’s program to investigate reports of unidentified aerial phenomena. The top investigatory and oversight watchdog at the Pentagon announced the “subject evaluation” in a light-on-details letter that clarified its scope is to “determine the…

Tech News Tom McKay

These Star Wars Holochess Figures Are Unfathomably Expensive

Star Wars fans celebrate May the Fourth in many ways. Some rewatch the movies. Some get in costume and play with lightsabers. And 77 of them spent $4,800 on a set of the little holochess monsters seen in A New Hope for about five seconds. That’s not a typo. Regal Robot charged $4,799 for its…

Toys & Collectibles Rob Bricken

Signal Tries to Run the Most Honest Facebook Ad Campaign Ever, Immediately Gets Banned [Updated]

A series of Instagram ads run by the privacy-positive platform Signal got the messaging app booted from the former’s ad platform, according to a blog post Signal published on Tuesday. The ads were meant to show users the bevy of data that Instagram and its parent company Facebook collects on users, by… targeting those users…

Privacy & Security Shoshana Wodinsky

Google May Have Inadvertently Just Spilled the Beans About the Pixel Buds A on Twitter

Google I/O 2021 is just a couple of weeks away, but in the run-up to its annual developer conference, Google may have just accidentally confirmed the existence of the Pixel Buds A on Twitter. In a tweet from the official Android Twitter account that has since been deleted, Google showed off a new version of…

Tech News Sam Rutherford

Star Wars: The Bad Batch‘s Producers Break Down That Big Premiere Cameo

If the Paris Agreement Fails, Sea Levels Could Rise 33 Feet

Useful Website Calculates How Hard You’ll Have to Binge a Show to Finish It in Time

Nintendo Teases More Animated Plans for Future Movies

Oversight Board Finds Facebook Took the Coward’s Way Out With Trump Ban, Also Takes Coward’s Way Out

12 Things You Didn’t Know You Could Do With Your Amazon Kindle

U.S. Military Doesn’t Know Where Chinese Space Debris Might Land

G7 Participants Test Positive for Covid-19 at Meeting That Should’ve Been a Zoom Call

SpaceX’s Starlink Satellite Internet Orders Reportedly Already Exceed 500,000

The Flash Is Losing 2 Key Cast Members

You Should Definitely Update Your Dell Computer Right Now

Area Man Wants You To Check Out His Blog

Scientists Say You Can Have More Than 150 Friends, If You Want

Musicians Ask Spotify to Promise It’ll Never Use Its Creepy Speech-Recognition Patent

Merry and Pippin Are Going Podcasting

Stop the Steal: ‘Hacker’ Homecoming Queen Charged as Adult in Vote-Changing Scandal

The Pentagon’s Inspector General Is Investigating the Pentagon’s UFO Investigation Program

These Star Wars Holochess Figures Are Unfathomably Expensive

Signal Tries to Run the Most Honest Facebook Ad Campaign Ever, Immediately Gets Banned [Updated]

Google May Have Inadvertently Just Spilled the Beans About the Pixel Buds A on Twitter

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