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It's spooky season and Hot Topic is celebrating Tim Burton's The Nightmare Before Christmas with a new collection for the film's 30th anniversary.Read more...

Just in time for Halloween and for the release of Blumhouse and Universal Pictures' Five Nights at Freddy's fans can visit a pop-up location of the fictional franchise from the game and film.Read more...

For the last 10 years, Chromebooks have remained just what they are. Chromebooks are Chromebooks. Manufacturers release new models every year with slightly updated specs and Google makes minor additions to the ChromeOS-based platform. But despite that, Chromebooks are still low-end budget laptops for folks who only...Read more...

Vince Gilligan is returning to Albuquerque-and science fiction. The acclaimed creator of AMC's Breaking Bad and its spin-off Better Call Saul, who also worked for multiple years on Fox's The X-Files (and co-created spin-off The Lone Gunman) just revealed a tiny bit of information about his new series starring...Read more...

In 2018, a skin-crawlingly eerie horror movie from Argentina called Terrified hit Shudder after debuting at Fantastic Fest. Writer-director Demian Rugna is following a similar path (with a theatrical release in between) with his latest, When Evil Lurks, a film which proves Terrified was no fluke while unfurling its...Read more...

With the end of Ahsoka's first season on Disney+ comes sad news from behind the scenes of the Star Wars series: costume designer Shawna Trpcic, a lifelong fan of sci-fi and comic bookswho also brought her talents to The Mandalorian and The Book of Boba Fett, has died at the age of 56.Read more...

Horror fans know the sudden appearance of a crate is never, ever a good thing, especially if that crate is old and marked with some kind of warning or other sinister writing. But while Creepshow segment The Crate" may have inspired the set-up for short film Momo, its monster is of a more newfangled breed.Read more...

The V/H/S series has enough built-in fans by now that it's barely necessary to review the latest release. But anyone feeling ambivalent about the found-footage horror franchise should make it a point to seek out its sixth entry (eighth, if you count the two spin-off films), because V/H/S/85 is excellent.Read more...

The reviews for The Exorcist: Believer haven't been kind, with far less goodwill being showered upon David Gordon Green's series revival than his 2018 Halloween sequel. Box office, however, has been decent-the Hollywood Reporter notes it made nearly $3 million in Thursday previews; all told, Variety notes, it made...Read more...

With Trick r Treat at Loungefly and Beetlejuice at RSVLTS and BlackMilk, and pop culture icons like Looney Tunes and Friday the 13th flexing their tricks, there'sa ton of spooky-fun merch to add to your listin time for WB100 and Halloween.Read more...

An opaque legal case against a Florida journalist is alarming press advocates, who see it as a troubling example of draconian government overreach.Read more...

When a director publically acknowledges what his next movie is going to be, when it's shooting, and who is in the cast, that's about as official as something can get. And so, even though Netflix hasn't made any announcement yet, at a screening this week, Oscar-winning director Guillermo del Toro dropped all of that...Read more...

New research could complicate the narrative over using exercise to help with depression and other mental health issues. A study compared depressed and/or anxious people who joined a running program to those who took a course of antidepressants, and found that both groups experienced a similar level of mental health...Read more...

Creepshow is back for its fourth season, and the horror anthology series doesn't diverge much from its established formula: two stories per episode, both putting characters through gory ordeals that climax in (usually) well-earned punishment. You know a twist is coming, but Creepshow's draw is that you can never...Read more...

The second Amazon Prime Day is fast approaching, kicking off on Oct. 10 at 3 a.m. EST through Oct. 11. The company is offering major Prime Day sales, exclusively for members, as we head into the holiday season.

Prime Video's The Wheel of Time, adapted from the Robert Jordan book series, just dropped its season two finale. A third installment was announced back in 2022 at San Diego Comic-Con, and stars Rosamund Pike and Daniel Henney have teased what fans might expect when the fantasy series returns.Read more...

India's Chandrayaan-3 mission launched on July 14, headed towards a historic touchdown on the lunar surface. But before the lunar lander took off, it had to wait a few seconds until its path to orbit was clear.Read more...

Stephen Graham Jones, a bestselling horror author who has written incredible novels like The Only Good Indians and My Heart Is a Chainsaw, is back, and this time he's part of something new. True Believers is Jones' first comic, and he co-wrote it alongside Joshua Viola. The artist, Ben Matsuya, is known for his...Read more...

The oil company Shell is facing some heat from climate activists for its collaboration with the influencers of the popular battle royale video game Fortnite, during which the game's young user base was encouraged to participate in a gas-fueled virtual road trip.Read more...

In another discrimination accusation against SpaceX, the private space company is being sued by a former employee for alleged underpayment of women and minorities.Read more...

Totally Killer, a new Blumhouse film that hits Prime Video today, blends three of my favorite genres: time travel, horror, and whodunit. It's about a teenager who travels back in time to stop a masked killer, teaming up with her teenage mom in the process, and it's every bit as enjoyable as that sounds.Read more...

Is Love The Answer? became the English-translated debut of Isaki Uta when it debuted earlier this year, a touching manga with a nuanced exploration of asexuality and aromanticism. But now Uta and Irodori Comics are taking to crowdfunding to bring more of their work to English audiences-and blurring the line between...Read more...

Move over monotremes and the range of rodents known to glow: over one hundred other furry creatures do, too, new research shows, vastly increasing the number of mammals known to show the spooky trait.

The Wheel of Time, based on Robert Jordan's popular novels, just wrapped up its second season. It has a more modest budget than Prime Video's other big fantasy series-and less buzz than something like HBO's House of the Dragon-but it consistently delivered juicy intrigue while taking its nerdy elements seriously...Read more...

Stoke Space's goal to develop the world's first fully reusable rocket just got a major boost, as a hefty new $100 million investment pushes the aerospace startup's total funding to $175 million.

One of the world's most dangerous infectious diseases is encroaching further into the U.S. This week, health officials in Arkansas reported a locally acquired case of malaria, the first ever documented in the state. At least three other states have reported local cases of the mosquito-borne infection this year, though...Read more...

Of all the bizarre decisions to come out of Twitter following Elon Musk's takeover last October, removing headlines might be the dumbest. The social media platform has officially beheaded all links in a curious crusade against news organizations and the platform's shrinking user base.Read more...

Neil Gaiman told the Times that while he loved being active on the set of Good Omens, writing a new children's book has stood in stark contrast to the many strictures of being on set: I've realized how much I don't like showrunning. I love making stuff up. I love writing it down."

Castlevania: Nocturne concludes with plenty left open as to just what could go down in more seasons of the spiritual continuation of Netflix and Powerhouse Animation's adaptation of the legendary Konami games. So it's good news, but perhaps not surprising, that the streamer has already confirmed that Richter Belmont...Read more...

Due to a shortage of processors needed to run OpenAI's intense software as well as the exorbitant costs associated with operating it, the makers of ChatGPT are reportedly considering making their own AI chips.Read more...

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MGM Resorts refused to pay a ransom to the group that hacked its systems last month which shut down its online hotel booking system, locked guests out of their hotel rooms by de-activating their key cards, and disrupted the technology in its slot machines. MGM reported that it resumed full operations on Thursday, but...Read more...

The death of He Who Remains (Jonathan Majors) triggered the branching of the sacred timeline at the end of Loki season one, with the threat of more Kangs rising. Season two picks up immediately where we left off.Read more...

Wedged between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter, the main asteroid belt contains over 1 million rocky objects, but perhaps few of them are as intriguing as Psyche. The metal-rich asteroid might have once been an ancient planetary building block that was stripped of its outer rocky shell as our solar system came to be....Read more...

Imagine yourself as a single cap on a keyboard. Perhaps you're an oft-used letter like A" or instead the lonely, remote ~" key. If you're one of the former, you wince every time that giant hand looms over you, the hammer falling with inexorable speed toward your head. You depress, then spring back, waiting again for...Read more...

Starting January 1, 2024, Penguin Random House will no longer be distributing Wizards of the Coast's seminal TTRPG product, Dungeons & Dragons. The announcement was made via email to various retailers. io9 obtained a copy of this email for confirmation. There is currently a distributor portal live on Wizards' site.

On March 29, 2023, more than 500 top technologists and business leaders signed onto an eye-catching open letter begging artificial intelligence labs to immediately pause all training on any AI systems more powerful than Open AI's GPT-4 for at least six months. The consequences for plowing ahead without taking a...Read more...

Hey, if the likes of Netflix and YouTube Premium and Discovery+ can increase their prices-and they're just a few recent services that've done so-why not DIRECTV? As of November 5, DIRECTV's satellite service and DIRECTV STREAM customers will both be paying more.Read more...

The biggest acquisition in video game history appears to be coming to a close. After Microsoft offered to buy Activision Blizzard nearly two years ago-and faced a barrage of government hurdles along the way-the tech company is reportedly readying to close the sale.Read more...

Last week, Meta introduced AI chatbots to its family of apps, including Instagram, Facebook Messenger, and WhatsApp. The bots include a variety of personas built for different purposes such as cooking and travel, and several based on celebrities including Snoop Dog and Mr. Beast. One of them, named Carter, is...Read more...

It's oddly fitting that well over two years have passed since the first season of Loki, because time is always a piece of the puzzle. Loki introduced the Marvel Cinematic Universe to the multiverse in an unforgettable way, branching the franchise's most popular villain off from the series' most popular film and...Read more...

Disney just made a new TV deal for all 12 Star Wars moviesthat will allow them to play not just on Disney+, but its own suite of broadcast and cable channels as well as those owned by Turner Broadcasting.Read more...

Of all the fantastical manga crying out for a sumptuous adaptation, Ryko Kui's Delicious in Dungeon has long ranked high over the last decade of its serialization. And now that it's finally happening, it looks to have been worth the mouth-watering wait.

A man who was encouraged to assassinate Queen Elizabeth II by his chatbot girlfriend was sentenced to nine years in prison by a UK judge on Thursday. Jaswant Singh Chail was just 19 years old when he scaled the wall of the late queen's Windsor Castle home, armed with a loaded crossbow and donning a metal face mask on...Read more...

The weather outside is about to get really frightful with more holiday killers on the loose in horror films this year, including the ghostly figure in It's a Wonderful Knife.Read more...

A team of scientists may have developed a breakthrough in wound repair: bioprinted skin that's closer to natural skin than ever. In experiments with mice and pigs, the researchers found their skin was able to accelerate wound healing with less scarring than usual. It's possible that this technology could one day help...Read more...

How's that whole metaverse thing going? Well, according to one top analyst's sales expectations for the Quest 3 mixed reality headset, not as well as Meta might hope. That, plus the news that Meta keeps firing people from its Reality Labs division responsible for making the company's prized VR products signals a...Read more...

The Marvel Cinematic Universe is back on the smaller screen to tell the larger story of how the Time Variance Authory operates outside of the Sacred Timeline in Loki season two.