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The Art of The Mandalorian Says ‘Peekaboo’ in This Exclusive Preview

The Mandalorian has always put its concept work front and center—from behind the scenes looks in shows like Disney Gallery, to literally every episode of the series itself, since its end credits highlight the concept work that helped bring what you just watched to life. Now, as we journey through the second season, a new…

Books & Comics James Whitbrook

A Trove of Ancient Hunting Artifacts Has Melted Out of a Norwegian Ice Patch

Researchers have uncovered what they’re calling a “bonanza” of ancient arrows and other hunting equipment, as well as signs of prey, on a remote Norwegian ice patch. The cache is a striking example of the burgeoning field of ice patch archaeology, which is unfortunately growing as the planet melts down. Global warming is shaping the…

Earther Brian Kahn

SEC Proposal Seeks Ability to Pay Gig Workers In Stock

In the aftermath of Californian’s disastrous decision to avoid classifying gig workers as employees, the Securities and Exchange Commission is proposing a rule change that would allow businesses focused on the gig economy to compensate workers with equity. In recent years, gig-focused tech companies have asked the SEC to tweak regulations that prevent them from…

Tech News Rhett Jones

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The Pop Culture We’re Thankful for Getting Us Through 2020

No matter who you are or where you are, 2020 has been a rough year. It’s been a year where things have gotten so bad, sometimes you just had to find joy in the most unexpected of places. Family, friends, a new book or video game. It’s different for everyone. So with Thanksgiving around the…

Television io9 Staff

The Hacked Nintendo Game & Watch Now Plays Pokémon and Zelda Too

After successfully hacking Nintendo’s Game & Watch revival a day before the handheld was officially released, it didn’t lake long for Twitter user ‘stacksmashing’ to figure out how to get alternate games running on the device. They started with Doom, but have since succeeded in getting other retro classics like The Legend of Zelda, Super…

Gadgets Andrew Liszewski

Computer Controlled Shackles Hold You Prisoner Until You Finish a Workout

Personally speaking, mustering the will to do pushups requires a lot of psyching myself up. A lot of walking around in circles, fiddling with my music, and wondering if maybe doing an extra few sets of overhead tricep extensions or holding a plank for two minutes would be a sufficient alternative to the dreaded pushup.…

Tech News Victoria Song

Secret Exxon Documents Show the Firm May Never Recover

The economic fallout of the covid-19 pandemic has hit the oil industry hard, and Exxon in particular is feeling it. Internal documents show the company’s not expecting to make a grand recovery any time soon despite putting on a good face for shareholders. Exxon is expecting oil prices to fall over most of the next…

Earther Dharna Noor

I Welcome the Rumored Demise of the Samsung Galaxy Note

Thanks to phones like the Galaxy S20 Ultra, a new segment of devices with flexible screens, and lite versions of the Note 10 and Note 20, Samsung’s flagship phone portfolio has sort of ballooned out of control over the last couple of years. So in an effort to streamline its offering, a new rumor is…

Gadgets Sam Rutherford

Memory Loss and a Pandemic Are a Horrifying Combination

It’s tough to hear about any stories covering fictional pandemics, since we’re going through an all-too-real one right now, but the one in Little Fish is more of a metaphor for something else. In the first trailer for this new sci-fi film, Ready Player One’s Olivia Cooke struggles to keep her marriage intact during a…

Trailers Beth Elderkin

Exposure to Outer Space May Accelerate Aging, New Evidence Suggests

A fascinating batch of new research papers are highlighting the various health risks associated with long-duration space missions, including troublesome observations having to do with the aging process and radiation-induced DNA damage. Space, as we’re learning, really sucks for us puny humans. Without gravity perpetually pulling us downward, and without a protective atmosphere to shield…

Space & Spaceflight George Dvorsky

Disney Security’s Unofficial Challenge Coins Are a Different Sort of Collector’s Item

As the owner of a substantial portion of the world’s most popular pieces of intellectual property, the Walt Disney Company is more than used to seeing its characters and branding pop up in unofficial, unlicensed places. In some instances, like when the family of a recently deceased child attempted to feature Spider-Man’s likeness on his…

io9 Charles Pulliam-Moore

I Miss Merlin, the First Electronic Game I Ever Played

Do you remember the first electronic game you ever played? Maybe it was Super Mario Bros. on the NES? Pitfall on the Atari 2600? Pac-Man at the arcade? For me it was Tic-Tac-Toe played on what looked like a cordless phone called Merlin The Electronic Wizard featuring a ‘screen’ made up of just 11 glowing…

Gadgets Andrew Liszewski

Fine, This Smartphone Mount That Turns an Apple Watch Into a Viewfinder for Selfies Is Pretty Clever

If you’re snapping a quick selfie for social media, the lower quality camera on the front of your smartphone is usually just fine. But what if you want to use the higher quality lenses and camera on the back to film yourself? It means you can’t see the screen and no longer have a live…

Gadgets Andrew Liszewski

11 Games You Can Play With the Family Remotely Over Zoom for Thanksgiving

Unless you spend every year sheltering in place and worrying about a global pandemic, the upcoming holiday season is going to be different for a lot of us. Video calling apps like Zoom can keep us in touch with each other even while we’re apart, and these online and offline games will save you from…

Gadgets David Nield

Updates From The Batman, Scream 5, and More

The Walking Dead teases the arrival of Lucille. Mads Mikkelsen is still holding out hope that Hannibal could come back. Dead things don’t stay buried in the latest teaser for…whatever wild thing Riverdale will get up to this season. Plus, what’s to come on His Dark Materials. Spoilers away! Scream 5 In an interview with Cinema…

Television James Whitbrook & Gordon Jackson

I’ll Just Say It: Jabra’s New ANC Earbuds Are Better Than AirPods Pro

Jabra’s Elite lineup of Bluetooth earbuds have been a favorite of mine for years. But as the competition has become more intense and earbuds are packing in more features for less, Jabra was missing one big thing: active noise cancellation. The $230 Elite 85t with ANC is here, and after using these earbuds for a…

Headphones Caitlin McGarry

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Utah’s Mystery Monolith Appeared Around 2016 Near Site of Old Movie and TV Locations

Was it aliens or artists? Yesterday, the internet was enthralled by the discovery of an unexplained metallic monolith in the middle of nowhere by officers for Utah’s Department of Public Safety. Roughly 24 hours later, we have a lot more answers, all thanks to amateur sleuths online. And given the area’s long history with Hollywood,…

Tech News Matt Novak

SpaceX Starship Plans To Make Its First High Altitude Test Flight Next Week

SpaceX fired the engines on its Starship SN8 prototype on Tuesday evening, with billionaire CEO Elon Musk tweeting that the resultant “good static fire” produced during the final test had likely paved the way for the vehicle to take its first test flight sometime next week. The proposed 5km (50,000 feet) test flight would exceed…

Space & Spaceflight Brianna Provenzano

We Almost Got to See Bill and Ted as Little Dudes

Feel-good movie of the summer Bill & Ted Face the Music just scored a Grammy nomination for its soundtrack, featuring Weezer and (of course) Wyld Stallyns. While that air-guitar-worthy news isn’t a total surprise, a little script edit revealed by co-writer Ed Solomon is a bit more startling: we almost met kid Bill and kid Ted!…

Movies Cheryl Eddy

Watch 200 Drones Perform a Choreographed Lip Sync in VWLS’ Latest Music Video

One of many things we’re missing during quarantine has been the kind high-profile, high-budget music video release we’ve come to expect from our pop stars in the 21st century. Sure, Cardi B brought out a live tiger and Kylie Jenner for her “WAP” music video in August, but social distancing requirements — and the threat…

Gadgets Brianna Provenzano

The Art of The Mandalorian Says ‘Peekaboo’ in This Exclusive Preview

A Trove of Ancient Hunting Artifacts Has Melted Out of a Norwegian Ice Patch

SEC Proposal Seeks Ability to Pay Gig Workers In Stock

The Pop Culture We’re Thankful for Getting Us Through 2020

The Hacked Nintendo Game & Watch Now Plays Pokémon and Zelda Too

Computer Controlled Shackles Hold You Prisoner Until You Finish a Workout

Secret Exxon Documents Show the Firm May Never Recover

I Welcome the Rumored Demise of the Samsung Galaxy Note

Memory Loss and a Pandemic Are a Horrifying Combination

Exposure to Outer Space May Accelerate Aging, New Evidence Suggests

Disney Security’s Unofficial Challenge Coins Are a Different Sort of Collector’s Item

I Miss Merlin, the First Electronic Game I Ever Played

Fine, This Smartphone Mount That Turns an Apple Watch Into a Viewfinder for Selfies Is Pretty Clever

11 Games You Can Play With the Family Remotely Over Zoom for Thanksgiving

Updates From The Batman, Scream 5, and More

I’ll Just Say It: Jabra’s New ANC Earbuds Are Better Than AirPods Pro

Utah’s Mystery Monolith Appeared Around 2016 Near Site of Old Movie and TV Locations

SpaceX Starship Plans To Make Its First High Altitude Test Flight Next Week

We Almost Got to See Bill and Ted as Little Dudes

Watch 200 Drones Perform a Choreographed Lip Sync in VWLS’ Latest Music Video

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