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Obi-Wan Kenobi Reflects on His Past in This Badass Star Wars Short

Anakin, Luke, and Rey Skywalker may be the respective stars of each Star Wars trilogy, but they all pale in comparison to Obi-Wan Kenobi. Over the course of Star Wars, the evolution of Obi-Wan Kenobi has been pretty extraordinary. Beginning as a stoic, powerful aging Jedi Master played by Alec Guinness, then going back in…

io9 Germain Lussier

Sure, Buying a PS5 to Play Bugsnax for Free Isn’t Wise, but It Is Right

Finally, a rare bit of good news. Game studio Young Horses has revealed that its PlayStation release Bugsnax—a confounding game evidently about bugs that also are snacks—will be available to PlayStation Plus subscribers on PlayStation 5 the same day the device launches. And buddy, you better believe that the at-minimum $400 you’re going to throw…

Tech News Catie Keck

The Big Winner of the Big Tech Senate Hearing Was Google’s Sundar Puckeye(sp?)

There was a big hearing in the Senate today regarding the future of online speech and the law that allows the web-as-we-know-it to function. Of the three big witnesses at the hearing, Google CEO Sundar Pichai may have expected to be in the hot seat given that his company was just slapped with an antitrust…

Politics Rhett Jones

Genndy Tartakovsky’s Unicorn: Warriors Eternal Is Heading to HBO Max

A new generation of heroes are rising—well before their time. HBO Max and Cartoon Network have announced Unicorn: Warriors Eternal, the latest animated series from Samurai Jack and Primal creator Genndy Tartakovsky, all about ancient heroes who’ve been reincarnated into the bodies of teenagers. “Unicorn: Warriors Eternal is going to be crazy cool and I…

io9 Beth Elderkin

The Apple TV Has the Best Streaming Remote

Folks, I have heard enough of the bad remote discourse. Let’s settle this debate. Over the past 48 or so hours, my cherished colleagues here at Gizmodo dot com—all of whom I admire despite their frequently bad and wrong opinions on technology—have dedicated a not-insignificant amount of time lamenting their frustrations with the Apple TV…

Gadgets Catie Keck

Let Moral Orel‘s Halloween Episode Remind You That People Are the Scariest Thing of All

In the very first episode of Dino Stamatopoulos’ Moral Orel, 11-year-old Orel Puppington resolves to bring the dead back to life by reading from the Necronomicon because of his sincere and naive belief that the deceased are “rejecting” Orel’s God’s greatest gift: life. Terrifying as it is when zombies start rising from their graves and…

io9 Charles Pulliam-Moore

Please Don’t Freak Out About the Latest Coronavirus Antibody Study

Early data from an ongoing study in the UK is setting off a wave of alarm over the pandemic this week. It found evidence that levels of antibodies to SARS-CoV-2 took a sharp plunge in England’s general population during the summer, prompting fears that immunity to covid-19 may start to significantly wane in as little…

Health Ed Cara

Trump Finds New Way to Endanger the Health of His Supporters: Stranding Them in the Cold

At least seven people were hospitalized after Donald Trump threw a rally at Nebraska’s Eppley Airfield near Omaha in freezing temperatures on Tuesday night. The president promptly jetted off afterward, leaving thousands of attendees in hours-long lines for campaign buses to return them to the parking lot, leading several exposed to the elements long enough…

Politics Tom McKay

Give a Chaotic First Listen to Amazon’s Wheel of Time Series

Like so many other series in production, Amazon’sThe Wheel of Time was brought to a halt by the onset of the covid-19 pandemic. At this point, it doesn’t seem at all likely it’ll launch in 2020 the way it was originally meant to. That being said, The Wheel of Time’s team wants people to know…

io9 Charles Pulliam-Moore

Birds With 20-Foot Wingspans Once Patrolled the Skies of Antarctica

A re-analysis of two fossils found in the 1980s has led to the discovery of an absolutely enormous Antarctic seabird. The modern wandering albatross, with its 11.5-foot (3.5-meter) wingspan, is damned impressive. But this newly described bird, with wings stretching nearly 20 feet (6 meters), is the stuff of imagination. Living during the Eocene between…

Biology George Dvorsky

Tim Curry’s Gloriously Bad Halloween Song From The Worst Witch: A Scholarly Analysis

As Halloween approaches, it is paramount that we all take a moment to remember—or discover—Tim Curry’s “Halloween Song” from The Worst Witch. Since HBO aired its extremely low-budget, TV movie adaptation of Jill Murphy’s children’s books in 1986, it has remained one of the most wonderful, terrible, bizarre videos of all time, thanks to its…

io9 Rob Bricken

You Don’t Have to See That Horrid New Gmail Logo If You Use a Mail Client

Change is hard. I get that. Judging by the dismay on Twitter over the Gmail logo change, few people are happy with the multi-colored M. Some have blamed the email logo change for missing important missives. Others complain it’s now visually indistinguishable from Google’s other app logos. To everyone in the throes of an extremely…

Tech News Victoria Song

Why the Internet Should Be a Public Utility

The internet is here, it’s just not evenly distributed. While some people have access to high-speed fiber-optic cable running to their house or phones ready to connect to 5G, there are also swaths of broadband deserts where people can’t access internet at reliable speeds. Decades of disinvestment have left communities in what are essentially Sahara,…

Tech News Brian Kahn & Alex Cranz

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An Indigenous Group in the Amazon Has Experienced a Drop in Body Temperature Since 2002

New research detected an intriguing change in the average body temperature of the Tsimane people, an indigenous foraging and farming group in the Bolivian Amazon that has recently started to interact more with industrialized communities. Over 16 years, the Tsimane have experienced a slight but rapid drop in body temperature—mirroring a similar decline seen among…

Health Ed Cara

Tiny Toons Is Returning for More Adventures on HBO Max

They’re tiny, they’re toony, they’re all a little, well, Looney Tunes. HBO Max and Cartoon Network have announced Tiny Toons Looniversity, the latest ‘90s animated series revival from executive producer Steven Spielberg. According to a press release, Tiny Toons Looniversity has been given a straight-to-series, two-season order. Based on the characters from Tiny Toon Adventures,…

io9 Beth Elderkin

The Department of Interior Releases Trump Propaganda Video

The Trump administration continues to stretch the limits of decency and legality as it tries to turn the government into a propaganda arm of President Donald Trump’s reelection campaign. The latest example comes from the Department of Interior, which released a Dear Leader-style video touting Trump’s environmental record less than a week before Election Day…

Earther Brian Kahn

The Nerd’s Watch: The Best Sci-Fi and Fantasy Streaming in November

Viewers are turning to streaming entertainment more than ever thanks to the global pandemic, and the plethora of services can serve as a much-needed escape. At the start of each month, most streamers do a little shuffle, adding new movies and taking some away, and io9 is here to help with your decision making. Welcome…

Movies Germain Lussier

Uber Yearns to Chop Up Grocery Delivery Services and Deliver Their Dry-Cured Corpses to Manhattan

It’s kill or be killed out in these freezer aisles, which is to say that Uber’s now locked in a four-way mortal combat with Instacart, Prime Delivery, and FreshDirect. Uber announced that as of today, Manhattan residents will see a “grocery” tab in their Uber and Uber Eats apps, marking an expansion of Uber’s grocery…

Tech News Whitney Kimball

Hot Damn, AMD Did It

AMD put on one hell of a show-stopper when it revealed all the details about its next-gen processors earlier this month. And it’s done it again with its full-reveal of its next-gen graphics cards today. This may very well be the generation of AMD hardware that finally puts it neck-and-neck with its competitors, not just…

Gadgets Joanna Nelius

Microsoft Is Finally Purging Flash From Windows

After being kept on life support for arguably far too long, Flash will finally be sent to that big hard drive in the sky by the end of this year. To make the goodbye a little easier, Microsoft has released a new Windows update that purges Flash Player before its eventual demise on December 31.…

Tech News Shoshana Wodinsky

Obi-Wan Kenobi Reflects on His Past in This Badass Star Wars Short

Sure, Buying a PS5 to Play Bugsnax for Free Isn’t Wise, but It Is Right

The Big Winner of the Big Tech Senate Hearing Was Google’s Sundar Puckeye(sp?)

Genndy Tartakovsky’s Unicorn: Warriors Eternal Is Heading to HBO Max

The Apple TV Has the Best Streaming Remote

Let Moral Orel‘s Halloween Episode Remind You That People Are the Scariest Thing of All

Please Don’t Freak Out About the Latest Coronavirus Antibody Study

Trump Finds New Way to Endanger the Health of His Supporters: Stranding Them in the Cold

Give a Chaotic First Listen to Amazon’s Wheel of Time Series

Birds With 20-Foot Wingspans Once Patrolled the Skies of Antarctica

Tim Curry’s Gloriously Bad Halloween Song From The Worst Witch: A Scholarly Analysis

You Don’t Have to See That Horrid New Gmail Logo If You Use a Mail Client

Why the Internet Should Be a Public Utility

An Indigenous Group in the Amazon Has Experienced a Drop in Body Temperature Since 2002

Tiny Toons Is Returning for More Adventures on HBO Max

The Department of Interior Releases Trump Propaganda Video

The Nerd’s Watch: The Best Sci-Fi and Fantasy Streaming in November

Uber Yearns to Chop Up Grocery Delivery Services and Deliver Their Dry-Cured Corpses to Manhattan

Hot Damn, AMD Did It

Microsoft Is Finally Purging Flash From Windows

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