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Pocket multiverse

Pocket multiverse

This week, we resurrect the Toyota FJ Cruiser in EV form and the Game Boy in FPGA form. Then we disassemble our gadgets and pull Michelle Yeoh into a non-spider-related multiverse to help put them back together. Plus: Nicolas Cage — because Nicolas Cage.

Asteroidian slip

Asteroidian slip

This week, we dodge asteroids, take down AWS, steal cars using Apple AirTags and win $50B worth of inaccessible Bitcoin. Also: Keanu Reeves awakens on the other side of the uncanny valley — inside your game console.

Jack packs it in

Jack packs it in

This week, we tweet farewell (for the second time) to Twitter co-founder/CEO Jack Dorsey, who's probably had it up to here with your nonsense. Then we roam the earth collecting Bitcoin, decide between a $650,000 yacht NFT and a bacteria-based Star Trek one, and recreate Squid Games with MrBeast — without all the messy moral of the story. Also: 3D-printed prosthetic eyeballs, self-replicating organic nanobots, and ugly Windows Christmas sweaters. We are truly living in the future.

Zen and the art of iPhone repair

Zen and the art of iPhone repair

This week, we explore Iceland's and Dyson's respective metaverses, fix our own Apple products, and seek guidance from Netflix as we await Hawkeye's return home for the holidays on Disney+.

Twinter Blues

Twinter Blues

This week, Twitter makes this coming winter a little more Blue with the launch of its premium subscription service, prompting us to revisit mental health coping strategies — including Netflix Games, Black Friday deals and brain implants.

Never metaverse we didn't like?

Never metaverse we didn't like?

This week, Jamie Reynolds returns to explore the various rival metaverses being built by Meta (formerly Facebook), Microsoft, Niantic and others. Plus, non-newsworthy SpaceX flights, Mars ketchup, and Mothra — and its potato equivalent.

Tacozilla vs the Beast

Tacozilla vs the Beast

This week Ged Smyth of Fabulous Flix returns to drive us through some concept vehicles from the SEMA (Specialty Equipment Market Association) 2021 show and ushers us to the front row for the past month's blockbuster movie releases. Plus, Steve Buscemi memes it up and Boba Fett Jabbas the Hutt.