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A New Empire Strikes Back Book Answers Fascinating Questions You’ve Never Even Thought Of

Everything and everyone has a story. That’s just true in life. The problem is, not everyone has someone to tell those stories. When it comes to Star Wars, though, the franchise can recruit an army of incredibly talented authors to create stories about the smallest, most seemingly insignificant things. And it’s awesome. That’s basically the…

Books & Comics Germain Lussier

Time Travel Film 2067 Can’t Match Its Grand Ambitions

Filled with interesting ideas and surprising twists, 2067 has all the elements of a classic sci-fi mystery. Ultimately though, it’s stifled by that ambition, unable to tie everything together in a cohesive, satisfying way and never living up to its full, grand potential. Written and directed by Seth Larney, 2067 stars Kodi Smit-McPhee (X-Men: Apocalypse,…

Movies Germain Lussier

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These 24 Planets Might Be Better Places to Live Than Earth, Astrobiologists Say

Astrobiologists have identified 24 exoplanets that aren’t just potentially habitable, they’re potentially superhabitable, exhibiting an array of conditions more suitable to life than what’s seen on Earth. The saying these days among environmentally conscious people is that there is no Planet B, but a new paper published in Astrobiology suggests otherwise. A research team led…

Space & Spaceflight George Dvorsky

Damn, It Sounds Like Game of Thrones Actually Improved on Something From the Upcoming Books

Game of Thrones might have been the most popular show on television for awhile, but nowadays it’s looked at as something of a mixed bag. This is mostly because of the final season, but other decisions in seasons six and seven contributed. Hodor’s swan song was not one of them but it turns out that’s…

io9 Beth Elderkin

Climate Change and Bad Planning Caused California’s Rolling Blackouts

Amid record breaking heat in mid-August, energy officials cut power to millions of people across California for up to 90 minutes at a time. In a preliminary report released Tuesday, the state’s three main energy agencies unpacked exactly why those blackouts happened. The finding show the state wasn’t ready despite the warning signs, and that…

Earther Dharna Noor

The Internet Is Broken, and ISPs Are to Blame

Welcome to the big day: The launch of System Reboot, Gizmodo’s new podcast on how to repair a broken world. There’s no better place to start our mission to fix the world than the internet. We rely on the tubes and wires more than ever due to the pandemic that has us working from home,…

Tech News Brian Kahn & Alex Cranz

Intel’s 11th-Gen Desktop Processors Are Coming Early Next Year and They’ll Support PCIe 4.0

Intel announced this morning that its 11th-gen desktop processors, code-named Rocket Lake, will release sometime in the first quarter of 2021. But unlike the 10th generation, this generation will actually provide support for PCIe 4.0. Not much more information was provided beyond that, although Intel did say it would reveal more in the coming months.…

Tech News Joanna Nelius

Latest Leak Suggests Apple’s Got a HomePod Mini In Store—But Is That Enough?

Now that Apple has finally set a date for its iPhone 12 event, new info is coming about other products Apple might release with one leak suggesting that instead of a HomePod 2, Apple will release a cheaper HomePod Mini. In a short but direct post on Twitter, L0vetodream—who has a pretty solid track record…

Tech News Sam Rutherford

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Gene-Editing CRISPR Pioneers Get a Well-Deserved Nobel Prize

On Wednesday, the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry to scientists Emmanuelle Charpentier and Jennifer Doudna for their pivotal roles in discovering CRISPR/Cas9, an ancient bacterial defense system that’s been adapted into a cheap and revolutionary gene-editing technology. This is the first Nobel in Chemistry to be shared exclusively by two…

Biology Ed Cara

The Future of Software Is at Stake in Google’s Latest Trip to the Supreme Court

The Supreme Court will finally hear arguments in a case that could rewrite the rules of software development as we know it. On Wednesday, Google will defend its use of Java code in the development of the Android operating system. Oracle claims that code is protected intellectual property, and if the court agrees, there are…

Tech Policy Rhett Jones

The Miles Morales Game’s Art Book Teases Into the Spider-Verse‘s Coolest Costume

Insomniac’s upcoming Miles Morales standalone video game is both going to continue its hero’s story—which first began in the studio’s epic Spider-Man—and establish the ways in which Miles is his own Spider-Man independent of Peter Parker. He’s always deserved to be the star of his own game, and it makes sense that Insomniac would shift…

Books & Comics Charles Pulliam-Moore

Polar’s Newest Smartwatch Sounds Perfect for Fitness Wonks

While some of us are perfectly happy with closing basic activity rings, there are also data nerds among us who love to comb through a mountain of metrics to measure progress. For those folks, there’s Polar’s latest flagship smartwatch, the Vantage V2. As the name suggests, the Vantage V2 is the successor to Polar’s high-end…

Gadgets Victoria Song

A New Godzilla Anime Is Set to Be Unleashed

The Witcher releases more teases of season two. Daniel Craig reveals some of the delayed James Bond film to tide us over. Lumberjanes is coming to HBO Max. Plus updates from Spider-Man 3, The Haunting of Bly Manor, and more. Spoilers away! Super High Andy Samberg, Craig Robinson and Common have joined the cast of…

Television James Whitbrook & Gordon Jackson

The Best Home Printer in 2022

Not everyone needs a printer for their house, but for those who do, here is what to look for

Reviews John Biggs

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All Hail 747, Your Hefty Fat Bear Champion of 2020

There can only be one true winner of Fat Bear Week. I’m pleased to announce 2020’s beefiest bear is 747. The aptly named ursine version of a jumbo jet won a bracket competition, beating out other monster bears of Katmai National Park and Preserve in Alaska to claim the title. Now, we celebrate his claiming…

Earther Catie Keck

In the Gritty New Archenemy Trailer, Joe Manganiello Just Might Be a Superhero

Joe Manganiello looks like a superhero. That’s just a fact. From Justice League, where he played one, to Spider-Man, where he fought one, and Magic Mike and beyond, the actor has the stature, physique, and charisma of a real life comic book character. Except he’s not. He’s human. And that dichotomy is taken to the…

Trailers Germain Lussier

Apple, Facebook, Google, and Amazon Are the Big Monopolies You Thought They Were, Lawmakers Find

Just as you suspected, Big Tech is dominated by monopolies, a House Judiciary antitrust subcommittee found. After more than a year of investigating Apple, Facebook, Google, and Amazon’s behavior, lawmakers released a 449-page report with their findings on Tuesday, complete with recommendations that the four companies be broken up to make the market more competitive.…

Tech News Caitlin McGarry

Facebook Bans the Future of the Republican Party

The future of the Republican Party faces a mild inconvenience as the world’s largest social network said on Tuesday that it plans to take sweeping action against groups and accounts associated with the QAnon conspiracy across Facebook and Instagram. The move to ban all QAnon Facebook Groups, Pages, and Instagram accounts regardless of whether they…

Politics Andrew Couts

I’m Already Crying Just Thinking About This New Netflix Show About a Lost Toy

Netflix has announced a new series called Lost Ollie, about a lost toy traveling through the countryside to find the boy who left him behind. Sure. OK. Thanks a lot, Netflix—as if I didn’t already have enough things in my life to make me sad. In a press release, Netflix revealed an upcoming four-part series…

io9 Beth Elderkin

Hero Child Sues Nintendo Over Hellish Joy-Con Drift

If you’re familiar with the dreaded Switch phenomenon known as “Joy-Con drift,” you’re likely privy to the unique feeling of rage you feel when the movements of your controllers aren’t aligning with what’s happening on your screen. One child has evidently had enough, and he and his mother are now suing Nintendo over the ongoing…

Tech News Catie Keck

A New Empire Strikes Back Book Answers Fascinating Questions You’ve Never Even Thought Of

Time Travel Film 2067 Can’t Match Its Grand Ambitions

These 24 Planets Might Be Better Places to Live Than Earth, Astrobiologists Say

Damn, It Sounds Like Game of Thrones Actually Improved on Something From the Upcoming Books

Climate Change and Bad Planning Caused California’s Rolling Blackouts

The Internet Is Broken, and ISPs Are to Blame

Intel’s 11th-Gen Desktop Processors Are Coming Early Next Year and They’ll Support PCIe 4.0

Latest Leak Suggests Apple’s Got a HomePod Mini In Store—But Is That Enough?

Gene-Editing CRISPR Pioneers Get a Well-Deserved Nobel Prize

The Future of Software Is at Stake in Google’s Latest Trip to the Supreme Court

The Miles Morales Game’s Art Book Teases Into the Spider-Verse‘s Coolest Costume

Polar’s Newest Smartwatch Sounds Perfect for Fitness Wonks

A New Godzilla Anime Is Set to Be Unleashed

The Best Home Printer in 2022

All Hail 747, Your Hefty Fat Bear Champion of 2020

In the Gritty New Archenemy Trailer, Joe Manganiello Just Might Be a Superhero

Apple, Facebook, Google, and Amazon Are the Big Monopolies You Thought They Were, Lawmakers Find

Facebook Bans the Future of the Republican Party

I’m Already Crying Just Thinking About This New Netflix Show About a Lost Toy

Hero Child Sues Nintendo Over Hellish Joy-Con Drift

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