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Characters Who Helped Us Make It Through 2020
22.12.2020
Twenty-twenty has been a year of seeking comfort in media, both in the nostalgia of old favorites and the exciting discovery of new and excellent stories. This year, more than any recently, we’ve looked for new bonds and new characters to fall in love with. Here are the heroes who kept us going...
How The Mandalorian's Finale Reveal Fits Into Star Wars' Timeline
21.12.2020
The Mandalorian’s season finale took Din Djarin’s small slice of the Star Wars universe and exploded it into smithereens—smithereens with much larger ties to the vast Skywalker Saga than any of us could’ve imagined when this show first started last year. But now that its adventures are inextricably...
Put a Virtual Baby Grogu in Your Home
17.12.2020
If you haven’t already brought Baby Yoda/Grogu/The Child into your home for the holidays—whether in the form of a giant stuffed animal, a walking toy, or just obsessive rewatchings of The Mandalorian—there is another... option (to borrow Yoda’s dramatic phrasing from Return of the Jedi): Use your...
The Pop Culture Highlights and Lowlights of 2020
17.12.2020
In a year full of all kinds of bad real-world news, pop culture still managed to poke its head up periodically to remind us that not everything sucks. Of course, this being 2020, that same realm also managed to leave a few steaming piles for us to step in, too. Here are our picks for the year’s...
Our Favorite Comic Moments of 2020
16.12.2020
While 2020 posed more than its fair share of significant challenges for virtually everyone working within the entertainment industry, comics in particular stood as an example of creative teams adapting on the fly—and doing their damndest to keep telling compelling stories at a time when people...
New Mamoru Hosoda Anime Film Coming In 2021
15.12.2020
Mamoru Hosoda (Summer Wars, Wolf Children, and The Boy and the Beast) has announced his newest film. Called Belle, the movie tells the story of a young woman in modern-day Japan as she enters a massive virtual world.Read more
The Star Wars Kids YouTube Channel Tries to Condense the Plot of The Rise of Skywalker Into Five Minutes
13.12.2020
Star Wars Kids does a great job of making
entertaining, accessibly bite-sized chunks of Star
Wars that are probably great for children. But this latest time they had
an unenviable task: condensing The Rise of
Skywalker, which has a… less than simple plot, into a scant five
minutes. Read more
Fantastic Four Finally Entering the Marvel Cinematic Universe and More Huge News
11.12.2020
It’s official. The Fantastic Four is joining the Marvel Cinematic Universe. Jon Watts (Spider-Man Homecoming) will direct. And that’s only the beginning.Read more
The Best Animated Series of 2020
9.12.2020
While live-action productions were dealt a significant blow this year by the ongoing covid-19 pandemic, the animation industry was in a prime position to step up to the plate and tell some of 2020's most riveting stories. Here are the ones that transported the io9 staff to far-off worlds...
Why Stablecoins Are the First Battleground of the Coming Crypto Regulation Wars
3.12.2020
The STABLE Act would force all stablecoin issuers to have bank licenses, a shot across the bow that portends an emerging legal challenge for the industry
Airbnb For Data, Filecoin, Begins Space Wars With Google Cloud
15.10.2020
Decentralized storage network Filecoin launches its long-awaited mainnet today, creating a reason to look back at what it is and why it's relevant.
Filecoin is one of the top initial coin offerings (ICOs) of 2017. When its ICO ended in September, 1 FIL token was worth USD 5, after having raised...
Blockchain Bites: BTC on Ethereum, DeFi’s Latest Stablecoin, the Currency Cold Wars
23.9.2020
Mick Mulvaney joined the Chamber of Digital Commerce, Origin launched a stablecoin and DeFi Pulse fixed a bug
Rise of DeFi wars? Uniswap’s UNI token airdrop starts a crypto rivalry
23.9.2020
Uniswap’s response to SushiSwap’s vampire mining attack is one of the most important moves in the DeFi space
The Mandalorian: trailer na druhou sezonu seriálu ze světa Star Wars je konečně tady!
15.9.2020
Working in the Cryptocurrency Industry as a Woman
12.9.2020
It seems there is a lot of turmoil happening in the world, as the year 2020 keeps giving and giving. From natural disasters, a global pandemic, and race wars and riots, everyone is wondering what will happen next. However, something happened earlier this year that resonated with me personally,...
SushiSwap Will Withdraw Up to $830M From Uniswap Today: Why It Matters for DeFi
9.9.2020
It's perhaps the largest test to date of a growing mood in DeFi: that all major projects should be community-owned
$50 Billion in Cryptocurrency Left China Amid Escalating Trade Wars
24.8.2020
Over $50 billion in cryptocurrency flowed out of China over the past 12 months amid trade wars, a new study finds. East Asia is the world’s largest cryptocurrency market; its crypto trading volume is driven by “a robust professional market” as well as an “extremely...
Privacy Wallet Wars: Wasabi Vulnerabilities Denied by Developer
20.8.2020
OXT Research, the team behind Bitcoin (BTC) wallet Samourai Wallet, has announced that its researchers have identified two potential privacy vulnerabilities in the open-source Wasabi Wallet that could impact the security of CoinJoin transactions carried out through the wallet. This said, zkSNACKs...
Binance DEX Announces “Stake Wars” BNB Airdrop Competition
17.8.2020
Decentralized exchange of the Binance ecosystem, Binance DEX, has announced the “Stake Wars” competition for BNB airdrop. As per the official announcement, the competition started today at 8:00 UTC and will end on August 27. The competition is for the initial testnet launch of the recently revealed...
HBO a Netflix na víkend: Další Star Wars! A taky apokalyptický Déšť, chudinka Nevěsta nebo Ash v boji se Smrtelným zlem
7.8.2020