00:00 I’m Doug Chiang, I’m the Vice President 00:01 and Executive Creative Director for Lucasfilm. 00:04 I’m Amy Beth Christenson, 00:05 and I’m an art director at Lucasfilm. 00:06 And today we’re gonna talk about every kind of starfighter 00:08 in the live action Star Wars films. 00:10 And we do mean every starfighter. 00:12…
Satellites are beaming and hackers are scheming, but first: a cartoon about the giggle economy.Here’s the news you need to know, in two minutes or less.Want to receive this two-minute roundup as an email every weekday? Sign up here!Today’s NewsThe largest scientific structure ever powers up in AfricaTowering above an ancient seabed in the Karoo—a…
Nearly 6,000 years ago, in a seaside marshland in what is now southern Denmark, a woman with blue eyes and dark hair and skin popped a piece of chewing gum in her mouth. Not spearmint gum, mind you, but a decidedly less palatable chunk of black-brown pitch, boiled down from the bark of the birch…
The reality TV star was accused of repeatedly abusing his position. There were calls that he be voted off, which were pushed aside. At a key moment, he received the backing of two members of his faction, who confessed that they cared more about their own viability as candidates than the truth of the charges.…
Teenagers are intimidating. What’s a Tik Tok? Who is Billy Eyelash? Are streaks painful? It can be hard to keep up with the coolest kids around, and that’s especially true when it comes to holiday gift-giving.We informally polled some of the supercool teens in our lives to find out what they really want for Christmas.…
We humans are notoriously bad at predicting the consequences of achieving our technological goals. Add seat belts to cars for safety, speeding and accidents can go up. Burn hydrocarbons for cheap energy, warm the planet. Give experts new technologies like surgical robots or predictive policing algorithms to enhance productivity, block apprentices from learning. Still, we’re…
Over the past decade, few institutions in the pop culture universe have dominated the conversation as much as Marvel. It wrapped things up in 2019 with Avengers: Endgame, which became the highest-grossing movie of all time. Meanwhile, its publishing arm has spent the past 10 years releasing a raft of new, exciting comic book titles.…
I came into one of my favorite new ways to make coffee by accident. My friend Trevor got two AeroPress coffee makers for his birthday last summer and sent me home with one, an act of generosity I appreciate every morning when I turn on the kettle.Many people might confuse the AeroPress for Austin Powers’…
Nikil Viswanathan is a hyper-connected, fast-talking 32-year-old with a record of turning simple consumer apps into viral success. So why is his new company, Alchemy, in the business of blockchain developer tools? He’d like to draw me a chart.Viswanathan grabs a dry-erase marker from his cofounder, Joseph Lau, who has just doodled a rocket ship…
A Google spokesperson said the fixed update is making its way to people’s devices within this week and will make affected users’ data visible to WebView-based apps again. In this particular scenario, being one of the first to get the update wasn’t a good thing: Google said it was able to pause the update’s deployment…
