Andor does so much, so well, in a way that it makes itself feel unlike any other piece of Star Wars while also being the Star Wars-iest thing around. Its music is just one highlight of that, and this week the show gave us a hypnotic beat that we can’t get out of our heads—and now, we don’t have to.

2022 is going from bad to worse for Snap Inc.

One of the most beautiful parts of the internet is the way jokes can proliferate through several people’s brains, ultimately resulting in a several-layers-deep meme that an outsider will likely never completely grasp. In the wake of Liz Truss’ resignation from the role of United Kingdom Prime Minister yesterday,…Read more...

Joker: Folie à Deux adds another major mystery role. Wild rumors allege that Adam Driver could join Fantastic Four. The new Goosebumps show expands its cast. Plus, what’s coming on the next American Horror Story: NYC. Spoilers get!

How much is your digital identity worth to you, or at least, how much is it worth in crypto? Well thanks to instant messaging app Telegram, you can soon find out. Telegram has plans to let users hang their digital identifier up on a public marketplace to see whether other folks think your name is also worth a good…Read more...

American alligators in a notoriously polluted North Carolina waterway could be facing similar consequences from chemical contaminants as local people, according to new research. Gators living in the Cape Fear River, with high levels of PFAS (polyfluoroalkyl substances) accumulated in their blood, displayed signs of…Read more...

A folio-style case is the easiest way to protect a mobile device and its screen from nicks and scratches, but as Moft’s new Snap Float Folio for the iPad Pro and iPad Mini demonstrates, you should be asking more from your case than just passive protection.Read more...

This story was originally published by Grist as part of its series Parched, an in-depth look at how climate change-fueled drought is reshaping communities, economies, and ecosystems. You can subscribe to Grist’s weekly newsletter here.

If you see a jogger, you’re probably in a white neighborhood. That’s according to Strava data from major cities like New York City and Baltimore, which show that running paths mirror American segregation. Running requires the perception of safety of multiple kinds, a necessity Black neighborhoods have long been…Read more...

Despite claiming the title of the world’s bastion of freedom, the U.S. doesn’t always feel so free. It’s no secret that government and corporate surveillance in this country has gotten a little out of hand in recent years—and, according to some studies, Americans consistently rank as some of the world’s most…Read more...

Google’s Pixel Watch is the Android smartwatch we’ve been waiting for a long time. It’s light, slim, and easy to wear, and its pebble-like construction matches everything. Some people might complain its 41mm size is a little too small for Google not to offer multiple sizes like other smartwatch makers, but frankly, I…Read more...

In early 2021, Transformers fans all shared a collective gasp when Hasbro and Robosen debuted a 19-inch tall Optimus Prime toy that could transform from a truck, to a robot, and back again, all on its own. It was an engineering marvel, a fantasy come true for countless ‘80s kids, and almost two years later, there’s…Read more...

City officials in Hong Kong have cancelled an outdoor screening of the 2008 Batman movie The Dark Knight, according to a new report from Bloomberg News. No reason was given for the cancellation, but it’s seen as the latest sign that Hong Kong is well and truly under the control of Beijing’s censorship regime,…Read more...

Elon Musk plans to cut Twitter’s workforce by almost 75% after he finalizes the deal to buy the social media company, a move that’s likely to cause chaos among employees, according to a new report from the Washington Post. And that’s to say nothing of Musk’s plan to reinstate the accounts of far-right figures like…Read more...

On the Halloween Ends international press tour, Jamie Lee Curtis expressed interest in appearing in Netflix’s upcoming live-action adaptation of One Piece. Long considered a fan-favorite casting, the iconic genre actress (prior to her latest horror turn, she was most recently seen in Everything Everywhere All At Once) …Read more...

Global emissions in 2022 are projected to rise just a fraction of the amount they increased by last year, thanks in large part to a surge in renewables installation and electric vehicle use, a major global energy organization said this week.Read more...

Kyle Higgins’ popular, tokusatsu-inspired Massive-Verse just keeps growing. The newest title stars Cássia Costa, aka the new Inferno Girl Red, who must save her city when it’s plunged into a demon dimension—and io9 has the first peek.

A Japanese rocket had to be intentionally destroyed last week during launch, marking the first failure of the company’s Epsilon-6 rocket. An initial investigation points to the rocket’s attitude control system as the source of the major malfunction.Read more...

Outside of a few strong highs, Lower Decks’ third season has largely felt like a bit of a regression, with characters re-treading familiar arcs with little rhyme or reason. It’s perhaps fitting then, that as the season draws to a close, it sets the stage for a conflict the show already covered—except this time there…Read more...

There’s great news if you’re a fan of gambling and flying, spying robots.Read more...

The ongoing chess cheating scandal now has some dollar signs attached to it. On Wednesday, burgeoning chess master Hans Neimann filed a $100 Million complaint against five-time World Chess Champion Magnus Carlsen over multiple hints and outright allegations of cheating.Read more...

The Luxembourg Directorate of Defense and Virgin Orbit signed an agreement earlier this week to explore the possibility of developing “responsive space capabilities” for use by NATO and possibly other allies.Read more...

I have said it before, I’ll say it again: Black Panther: Wakanda Forever star Tenoch Huerta does not need me to defend his honor, but I will do it regardless. I just think he’s neat. A nice guy. A cool dude. And, in a recent interview that he did while in Mexico City with the luchador Golden Scorpion, Huerta opened up…Read more...

Natural gas stoves commonly emit toxic chemicals into homes, even when the appliances are not in use. A study published today in Environmental Science & Technology found that, when researchers took samples from gas stoves in California, nearly all of them were leaking harmful levels of benzene, which is known to cause…Read more...

If the companies behind a product no longer care about ruining something for an audience, why should you? Today, mere hours before the release of Black Adam, the official DC Comics Twitter account posted a cute little animation. One that, well—we aren’t going to be assholes and spoil it without warning, so if you want…Read more...

Ten years from now, a young woman in the rural South turns to a lucrative side hustle to pay for her mother’s medical treatment: playing virtual reality games to help rich clients level up. But as we see in The Peripheral, her latest gig is far more than a game, and the world it opens up is incredibly vivid,…Read more...

What is going on in the House of Commons? After a mere 44 days in office, Liz Truss has left her post as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom amidst an ongoing UK government crisis. Truss assumed office on September 6, 2022 following a general election in response to the resignation of Boris Johnson.

Instagram just introduced a suite of new functions and updates they hope will help quell the sweat-inducing sense of impending dread some users experience when opening their comments and messages.Read more...

For years, Google has offered users a master privacy setting which controls a major chunk of the data collected about you, but using it came with an enormous drawback: you had to give up a variety of useful features across the company’s services. Today, that’s changing. In a major revamp of its settings, Google will…Read more...

Superhero fans on the far-right political spectrum have one less movie to get excited about, putting their options for hateful heroes to—well—none. As first reported by The Daily Beast, a movie that was set to give us a big-screen rendition of an “anti-woke superhero” is shuttered, and the thousands of dollars fans…Read more...

NFTs exist solely to destroy the planet and occupy the attention of people who believe in the ownership of imaginary nonsense. And yet, Warner Bros. Discovery’s new NFT plan for Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring seems even more ludicrous than normal. The plan is to release the movie as a set of NFTs...…Read more...

For the past 30 years, Geotail has been sailing through the magnetic envelope that surrounds Earth to study this region of our atmosphere. But the long-running mission may be coming to an end as NASA and the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency recently discovered that the spacecraft’s last remaining data recorder has…Read more...

The Biden administration officially launched its online portal (StudentAid.gov) to apply for student debt cancellation on Monday, after a soft-launch over the weekend. And though the site appears to be working so far—with more than 8 million borrowers filing applications in just the first few days—the federal…Read more...

You’ve heard the pleas from scientists: Squash these bugs without mercy. Entomologists and agriculture experts have been begging the public to help stop the spread of the ultra-destructive spotted lanternfly for several years now, but despite our best efforts, the invasive insect is now a familiar sight in 14 states,…Read more...

In a new interview with the Hollywood Reporter, She-Hulk’s Jessica Gao confirmed that Hulk’s son, Skaar, was a cameo that came directly from Kevin Fiege himself. Skaar appeared alongside Hulk at the very end of the finale episode, showing up in the middle of a family picnic just before the credits ran. No explanations…Read more...

A new image from the Hubble Space Telescope shows a pair of dusty tails extending out from Didymos-Dimorphos, the result of NASA’s DART spacecraft smashing into the smaller member of the binary asteroid system.Read more...

Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton announced the state is suing Google for allegedly collecting biometric data from millions of Texans without consent, his office said in a press release Thursday. The case is part of a recent flood of lawsuits against tech companies over biometrics, which measure physical…Read more...

Jordan Peele’s Nope is full of unexpected elements—including an alien that doesn’t look or act the way anyone thinks it will, and human characters who surprise us almost as much. One of the film’s biggest breakouts is Brandon Perea (The OA), who plays UFO enthusiast Angel Torres; ahead of Nope’s arrival on Blu-ray…Read more...

The hits keep coming from Webb Space Telescope, which has now spotted a rainbow “knot” consisting of an extremely red quasar and a snarl of massive galaxies that existed about 11.5 billion years ago.Read more...

While time traveling to hang out with your younger self may only seem possible in movies like The Adam Project, a real-life photographer and musician in Montreal has come pretty close to pulling it off. Unlike in the film, Conor Nickerson didn’t bring together his adult and younger selves to save the world—he simply…Read more...

All good things must come to an end, and so must some incredibly shitty things too, which is why UK Prime Minister Liz Truss announced today that she is resigning her position after just 45 days. Truss takes the mantle as the shortest premiership in British history, but like all good stupid things about the country,…Read more...

The Scottish islands of Shetland are taking a digital hit as a deep-sea internet cable has reportedly been compromised. The islands, located northeast of Scotland, are seeing landline and mobile phone outages.

Rocket technicians working on the front lines of the private-era space race are literally playing with fire. New details on how one SpaceX employee, who suffered grave injuries during a routine test, offer a new sense of the costs for the lightning-pace that companies are working at to put more rockets into the big…Read more...

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Do you remember R.I.P.D.? The movie about a cop (Ryan Reynolds) who gets killed and then enlisted into the Rest in Peace Department, a.k.a. heaven’s law enforcement division, to fight souls that have escaped hell? Chances are your answer is either “no” or “vaguely,” and yet, somehow, the film has gotten the sequel no…Read more...

Even with magnifying glasses being replaced by smartphone cameras, a child can tell you what happens when light shines through a focusing lens: a basic science experiment that the creators of this recalled bird bath appear to have forgotten.Read more...

Elon Musk couldn’t stop himself from talking Twitter, even when no one really asked. In the Q&A portion of a call with Tesla shareholders on Wednesday, the billionaire said, unprompted, that he was looking forward to acquiring the social media company—despite the hefty bill.

Have you ever prepped a photo for printing but regretted not being more generous with your framing when snapping the image? Extending the borders of a photo before digital editing was all but impossible, and it still represents a time-consuming challenge for even Photoshop masters, but a new tool teased by Adobe on…Read more...

Ebay will no longer let users sell Jeffrey Dahmer themed costumes, a blow sure to bum folks looking to ruin this year’s Halloween party by casually dressing up as the notorious necrophiliac serial killer.Read more...