Chris Taylor

United Kingdom

Editor-at-Large at Mashable

Editor at large, @Mashable. Author, How Star Wars Conquered the Universe (https://t.co/KM1l90XkBZ). Future curious. Past conscious. Present. DMs open.

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Google search AI Mode era opens. What could go wrong?

2 weeks ago | mashable.com | Chris Taylor

If the AI lovefest of Google I/O 2025 were a TV show, you might be tempted to call it It's Always Sunny in Mountain View. (It's not, by the way, especially in the fog-filled month of May, even if the company's confidence in booking an outdoor amphitheater suggests otherwise). But here's a better sitcom analogy for the event that added AI Mode to all U.S. search results, whether we want it or not.
'Doctor Who' drops a bombshell: The original companion is back

3 weeks ago | mashable.com | Chris Taylor

The Doctor (Ncuti Gatwa) seems to be heading for a family reunion of some kind on Doctor Who — and it's about time. In a surprise twist, first revealed halfway through his season 2 episode "The Interstellar Song Contest," Doctor number 15 has been having visions of the first person to travel in the TARDIS with Doctor number one (William Hartnell): his still-mysterious granddaughter Susan, played then and now by Carole Ann Ford.
'Doctor Who' drops a bombshell: The original companion is back

3 weeks ago | flipboard.com | Chris Taylor

If there's one thing the Eurovision Song Contest is guaranteed to do, it's put on a show. The music competition has been running since 1956, and in …
'Andor' no more: Your burning questions, answered

3 weeks ago | me.mashable.com | Chris Taylor

Even the title of the last episode of season 2 now on Disney+ — "Jedha, Kyber, Erso" — reminds us of the tragic movie narrative in store for Cassian Andor (Diego Luna). That list (a planet, a crystal, an engineer) is what sucks Cassian, along with reprogrammed Imperial droid K-2SO (Alan Tudyk) and Andor's old prison buddy Melshi (Duncan Pow), into the hunt for those all-important Death Star plans, at the cost of all their lives.
'Andor' no more: Your burning questions, answered

3 weeks ago | mashable.com | Chris Taylor

With apologies to anyone hoping this prequel show might squeeze in a season 3 before the events of Rogue One: A Star Wars Story (2016), Andor has reached its inevitable bittersweet conclusion. Even the title of the last episode of season 2 now on Disney+ — "Jedha, Kyber, Erso" — reminds us of the tragic movie narrative in store for Cassian Andor (Diego Luna).
'Andor' no more: Your burning questions, answered

3 weeks ago | flipboard.com | Chris Taylor

5 hours ago Smokey Robinson is under criminal investigation after housekeepers accuse him of sexual assault An attorney for the 85-year-old Motown singer Robinson has denied the allegations and said he is “confident that a determination will be made that Mr. Robinson did nothing wrong." Iconic soul singer Smokey Robinson, who was accused of sexually assaulting four former housekeepers for years in a … 2 hours ago "Honey Boo Boo" Is A 19-Year-Old College Student Now, And Here's What She Looks...
'Doctor Who' just did its first full-on African episode, and it's amazing

4 weeks ago | mashable.com | Chris Taylor

You can't kill Doctor Who. That's the ultimate meta-lesson from "The Story & the Engine," episode 5 of Season 2 of the show's tenure on Disney+. Even if persistent online rumors that Disney won't renew its co-production for a third season turn out to be true, this 61-year-old BBC show will simply emerge in a new form. As the Doctor (Ncuti Gatwa) says in his first ever six-word memoir: "I'm born. I die.
'The galaxy is watching!' How 'Andor' connects to a history of protest

1 month ago | mashable.com | Chris Taylor

The galaxy far, far away just watched a massacre on Andor. But did it understand what it saw — and will viewers in our galaxy? Andor season 2, episode 8, 'Who Are You?' isn't just the darkest moment in the show; it may be the darkest moment the Star Wars franchise has ever seen. Stormtroopers on Ghorman, a prosperous planet with a mineral the Empire needs to build its Death Star, attack a square full of defenseless protestors.
'Andor' showrunner Tony Gilroy explains how the Force just awakened

1 month ago | mashable.com | Chris Taylor

Whether you love the two-season Rogue One prequel Andor (we do) or hate it, one thing has so far distinguished it from all other Star Wars filmed entertainment. Not one single Force user is present in this increasingly dark story of the Dark Times. The Empire is ascendant, the Rebellion is threadbare, and years after the Emperor's Order 66 wiped out the Jedi, Force users are a myth. Right?
Mon Mothma Dancing In Andor Is The Meme We Need Now

1 month ago | in.mashable.com | Chris Taylor

When the galaxy is going to hell, you're fighting with your daughter at her wedding, and you've just learned an old friend will die for the sake of the Rebellion you're leading, how do you shake it off? If you're Senator Mon Mothma (Genevieve O'Reilly) in Andor Season 2, episode 3, here's your answer. You down some shots, hit the floor with other moms in a stunning gold number with shoulder capes when the DJ drops an EDM banger, and make like an X-wing: Lock S-foils in dance position.