Wired USA - 12.2019

PHOTOGRAPHS BY Amy Lombard IN STAR WARS MOVIES, people flying the Millennium Falcon pull a very specific lever to jump the ship ...

 Lucasfilm’s VR wing, ILMxLAB, partnered with Oculus to launch Vader Immortal in May, a three-part VR game for the new Quest he ...

 Star Wars Celebration, the official fan festival, attracted about 65,000 people this year. Two of the four days for the 2020 e ...

 If you want to craft your own lightsaber at Galaxy’s Edge, reserve 20 minutes and $200. Think about what all that requires. Ke ...

invent that, of course. “Spatial narrative is a very old kind of storytelling. You see it in ancient Rome, in cave paint- ings,” ...

8 2 0 In the concept sketch, Padmé Amidala stands in profile. The stiff brown tunic and pants—the clothes she’ll die in—are a fa ...

In deleted scenes from Revenge of the Sith, Padmé meets a few sympathizers from the Galactic Republic, which is faltering toward ...

A VIRTUOSO CODER WAS ON THE BRINK OF BLOCKCHAIN RICHES. THEN HIS BODY WAS FOUND IN THE WOODS OF SOUTHERN OHIO. PHOTOGRAPHS BY HA ...

AND MYSTERIOUS THE STRANGE OF JEROLD HAAS DEATH LIFE ...

ted a headless skeleton slumped against a honeysuckle tree, its right leg bent sideways at a 90-degree angle, its left still fle ...

as he stepped out of his car, officers say, Sylvia startled them with an odd question: Did they offer police protection? Rather ...

Fieri and Haas had been introduced by a mutual friend named Charles “Chic” Ford, a 67-year-old auto mechanic who sold nutritiona ...

where in southern Ohio. But when Haas’ mom emailed looking for her son in mid- September, Fieri became alarmed and con- tacted t ...

lasts only minutes but distorts time percep- tion in such a way that the user feels as if they were high for years. On occasion, ...

“HE WAS LIKE CYPHER FROM THE MATRIX,” A FRIEND SAYS. “BUT WHEN HE REACHED THAT GENIUS MOMENT, WHEN HE WAS ON THE CUSP OF SOME BI ...

That same day the detectives asked Ford to come to their headquarters in Lebanon, the seat of Warren County. They grilled him fo ...

Shepherds Way that runs along the western boundary of Bill O’Bryan’s estate—about a half-mile from where Haas’ skeleton was foun ...

become a hermit, swapping the stress of Tessr for the solitude of the Ohio wilderness. After walking or hitchhiking the seven mi ...

Mystical powers that helped get this issue out: Impersonating the way people walk; the late José José blowing everyone away with ...

LUKE, I AM YOUR GREAT-GRANDSON. IN SIX WORDS, SKETCH THE PLOT OF STAR WARS: EPISODE XXI HONORABLE MENTIONS: FAMILY PROBLEMS CONT ...