Good news, Jedi.
France’s fencing federation has recognized lightsaber dueling as a competitive sport, the Associated Press reports.
Now you can channel your inner Darth Vader, Luke Skywalker, or Qui-Gon Jinn (lol just kidding) with a Fre…
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Google will not bid for the Pentagon’s $10B cloud computing contract, citing its “AI Principles”
Google has dropped out of the running for JEDI, the massive Defense Department cloud computing contract potentially worth $10 billion. In a statement to Bloomberg, Google said that it decided not to participate in the bidding process, which ends this week, because the contract may not align with the company’s principles for how artificial intelligence […]
View More Google will not bid for the Pentagon’s $10B cloud computing contract, citing its “AI Principles”Tech companies can bid on the Pentagon’s $10 billion cloud contract, starting today
On Thursday, the Pentagon opened bidding for a huge cloud computing contract that could be worth as much as $10 billion. Given its size, the Joint Enterprise Defense Infrastructure contract, known as JEDI, is alluring for major cloud computing companies that might not normally do much business with the Department of Defense. Announced in March, […]
View More Tech companies can bid on the Pentagon’s $10 billion cloud contract, starting today‘The Phantom Menace’ at 19: Reconsidering the most maligned Star Wars film
The greatest rift in Star Wars fandom opened up 19 years ago this month, and it hasn’t healed over since. Even now, to provoke dark scowls or preemptive defensiveness from lovers of the saga, you need only utter three words: The. Phantom. Menace.
But…
Mark Hamill destroys the guy who killed Net Neutrality with an epic ‘Star Wars’ tweet
Net Neutrality is dead thanks to the Federal Communication Commission’s idiot chairman Ajit Pai, and Mark Hamill is pissed.
The Last Jedi star took some time out of the movie’s huge opening weekend to rip Pai a new one on Twitter, and man was it an e…
NASA to screen ‘Star Wars: The Last Jedi’ on the International Space Station
Being an astronaut living and working aboard the International Space Station shouldn’t mean that you have to miss out on much-anticipated movie releases like Star Wars: The Last Jedi. In fact, it should probably mean the opposite, which is why it’s great news that NASA will work with Disney to arrange a screening for ISS crew of the new movie, which is arriving in theatres in the U.S. Read More
Lucky ‘Star Wars’ fans got a surprise visit from Mark Hamill during a tour at Disneyland
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When taking a Star Wars tour at Disneyland in Anaheim, California, you expect to see some pretty great things.
You might expect to see some familiar sights, like some kind of Star Wars action set pieces or some Jedi-related memorabilia. But the last thing you might expect to see is Luke Skywalker, himself.
In a Twitter video posted by the StarWars account on Tuesday, Mark Hamill got to make some lucky fans’ day, buy surprising a tour in progress.
The Force is strong with @HamillHimself he surprised guests on Star Tours @Disneyland#TheLastJedi pic.twitter.com/0uG9qVFAqu
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What do Star Wars fans want from Rian Johnson? More prequels!
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If you thought prequels were out of fashion when it came to Star Wars, think again. If the franchise’s most vocal fans have anything to do with it, we’ll soon be returning to the Republic — in the prequelest prequels that ever prequeled.
In the wake of Lucasfilm’s bombshell announcement last Thursday, that Rian Johnson (The Last Jedi) would direct a whole trilogy set in an entirely unexplored corner of Star Wars lore, naturally, fans set about discussing what kind of subjects Rian might think about covering.
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View More What do Star Wars fans want from Rian Johnson? More prequels!Brand new ‘Star Wars’ trilogy coming from ‘The Last Jedi’ director Rian Johnson
Star Wars will get another film trilogy, which will be entirely new and will be separate from the current saga focusing on the Skywalker family and its close associates and friends. The news comes direct from Star Wars’ official blog, and we also now know that the new saga will be led by Rian Johnson, the director of Star Wars: The Last Jedi, set for a release this December. Read More
New ‘Star Wars: The Last Jedi’ trailer prepares you for some twists
There’s a new 45 second spot for Star Wars: The Last Jedi, which premiered tonight during some kind of sport ball game, but which is lucky also available on the internet so you can just watch it above. This doesn’t provide too much more compared to what we’ve seen in the longer spots, but it does give you a few all new clips, and it ends with a line from Luke that sounds like… Read More