Star Wars Inside Intel is a StarWars.com feature where Lucasfilm Story Group member Emily Shkoukani, whose job is to know as much about a galaxy far, far away as possible, explores obscure facts about Star Wars lore and continuity. In this installment, Emily explores the Jedi’s secret and mysterious Bogan Collection… The Jedi Temple on […]
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The cloud has changed everything–except how we market it

Commentary: Though the cloud keeps changing how we build applications, the way we market it has hardly changed at all.
ProtonMail Amends Its Policy After Giving Up Activist’s Data


The email service says it was unable to appeal a Swiss court’s demand to log the IP address of a French climate advocate.
The Shapeshifting Cam Girl Rewriting the Rules of Porn


Face-morphing adult content creator Coconut Kitty is ushering in the unsettling future of the medium, one where nothing is as it seems.
8 Star Wars Characters to Celebrate Pride Month

Star Wars is for everyone, and that means the worlds we explore are inclusive and diverse places to visit. Although there’s still work to be done to create more high-profile stories of people of all gender identities and expressions, ethnicities, sexual orientations, and backgrounds in the galaxy far, far away, to celebrate this Pride Month […]
My Mother Is Gone. But Her Digital Voice Helps Keep Me Well

I made the audio recording shortly before she passed. I didn’t know that it would become a powerful tool to keep me motivated.
Who Was the First Global Social Media Travel Infuencer?

You take photos, you write books, you’re published in weekly and monthly newspapers and magazines, and travel the world with the sole purpose of… traveling. You sound like one of the early social media influencers of the 2010s who was “living the dream,” constantly on the road, distributing a drip of photos and articles to the travel-enthused general public. However, it’s 1888, and your name is Frank Carpenter.
Quickly and Easily Archive Photos: We Review the Epson FastFoto FF-680W Scanner

Most of us over 30 have at least one box of old photo prints in a closet somewhere, and digitizing them is a worthwhile if tedious task. The Epson FastFoto FF-680W scanner seeks to make quick and easy work of that task while still producing high-quality results, and in this review, we take a look at what you can expect from it in practice.