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There's a lot of monsters ready to be let out of their crypts for Halloween haunt season.Read more...

Need something Witcher to sink your teeth to now that Henry Cavill has bid his farewell to the Netflix show? Well, there's good news: series author Andrzej Sapkowski has revealed he's working on a new novel set in the world of his fantasy creation.Read more...

A group of engineers is testing an air conditioning system in space, seeing how two basic processes work in an environment with less gravity than Earth in order to design a system for future habitats on the Moon and Mars.Read more...

Futurama's new season continues its examination of 3023 by way of 2023 with next week's How the West Was 1010001," which sees the gang heading to, ahem, Doge City to cash in on the bitcoin mining craze. Like most places they visit, they encounter absurdities, even more puns, and some very shady robot...Read more...

Google is trying to lure employees back to the office by offering a special for its on-campus hotel in Mountain View, California. The special will run through Sept. 30 and is serving as another attempt for Google to establish the new norm of a hybrid work-from-home schedule.Read more...

Widespread wildfires across Canada have broken a carbon pollution record this year, a European climate monitoring agency said this week.Read more...

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Samsung isn't the only phone maker expanding its quick-fix repair network. 9to5Google reports that Google will set up Pixel repair kiosks within select Best Buy locations to rival the Korean electronics giant's new line of repair shops and Apple's Genius Bar.

The time has come-after six years of waiting, and three of those spent in early access, Baldur's Gate 3 has finally released on PC. If you've already started gathering your party and venturing forth, we want to see the characters you've come up with to venture into this latest D&D adventure.

A disease spread by fleas is becoming more common and deadlier in Los Angeles, California. In a new report this week, health officials say that recorded cases of flea-borne typhus have steadily risen in LA since 2010, with the highest tally seen last year. Additionally, three people are thought to have died from...Read more...

Strange New Worlds' musical episode dropped this week, giving us a wonderful, all-singing all-dancing hour of Star Trek. But now that we've had a chance to give the Enterprise crew's showtunes a few repeat listens, we're ready to declare which hit the high notes and which should've been left on the cutting room floor.

An older woman with steel gray hair, wearing a tiara and a stylish red dress-suit combo, sits at the front of the Lorcana line at Gen Con 2023, explaining to a group of four younger men what happened that morning. She has a diagram. This is Esther Emerald. That's not her real name; that's her character's name for a ...Read more...

Players jumping into the hotly anticipated Dungeons & Dragons RPG Baldur's Gate 3 will likely want to skip through the intensely rambling licensing agreement. But for those players who actually decide to stay awhile and listen-er, sorry, wrong game-I mean read the mountainous EULA agreement, developer Larian has a...Read more...

Axiom Space will fly a fourth crew to the International Space Station (ISS) as NASA once again selects the private space venture for another mission to low Earth orbit.Read more...

A failed state attorney general candidate endorsed by Donald Trump, a former Republican Michigan state representative, and a Trump sympathetic election denying attorney have all been criminally charged with attempting to tamper with voting machines, according to charging documents first spotted by The Detroit News....Read more...

We're only a month out since Meta released its Instagram-tied Twitter-killer app Threads. Since then, the time users spent on the app has tanked. Now, two separate data analysis firms say that the number of users logging in each day on the app has similarly flatlined just a month after its release.Read more...

Lin-Manuel Miranda is a noted fan of bringing New York City stories to the stage and screen (Hamilton lyrics call it the greatest city in the world," after all), and he'll be tackling a new tale set in his hometown for his next project: a stage musical adapting Sol Yurick's 1965 novel The Warriors-previously the...Read more...

Like every other tech company, Tinder is bringing artificial intelligence to its operations in an attempt to create a better user experience, its parent company Matchgroup said in its Q2 earnings letter on Wednesday. The company says it plans to create new features around the needs of Gen Z users.Read more...

The last major holdouts in the massive protest against Reddit's controversial API pricing have relented, abandoning the so-called John Oliver rules" which only allowed posts featuring the beloved TV host in certain dissident subreddits. It marks the end of months of fighting, which included site-wide blackouts. Now...Read more...

When I was 19 years old, I stood outside a Toys R" Us for hours, waiting for midnight so I could buy toys from Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace. It was mere weeks before the movie was released, the hype was at an all-time high, and I spent a lot of money because of it.Read more...

Scientists and conservationists are working to observe and save coral reefs off the coast of Florida after a year of heat waves and alarming ocean temperatures.Read more...

Dark rises, and light to meet it-so when Ahsoka Tano finds out these god damn Imperials won't stay gone, it's a good job she's got plenty of friends on her Rebels rolodex to call in some favors.Read more...

On Thursday, Heather Morgan, a.k.a. Razzlekhan, and her husband pleaded guilty to orchestrating a massive money laundering scheme. Morganand Ilya Lichtenstein became known as the modern-day Bitcoin Bonnie and Clyde" after they were linked to the 2016 theft of $4.5 billion in crypto from the Hong Kong-based exchange...Read more...

Strange New Worlds' musical episode was a great episode of Star Trek, but it was also a humdinger of a musical-a soundtrack laden with a frankly distressing number of earworms. And now you can listen to it without having to queue up Paramount+.Read more...

In the latest chapter of Elon Musk's saga to take over the world with corporations named after the letter X," the billionaire tech tycoon just snagged a coveted URL: AI.com.

Final Destination's Jeffrey Reddick says the sixth film is ready to enter production-as soon as the SAG-AFTRA strike comes to an end. Dracula strikes in even more footage from Last Voyage of the Demeter. Plus, you're not ready for the first details about Riverdale's final episode. To me, my spoilers!

Security breaches rose by a shocking 156% globally from the first quarter of 2023 to quarter two, according to a report published by VPN service SurfShark on Tuesday. As hacking and security leaks become more prevalent so too does the rate at which the breaches occur.Read more...

When io9 interviewed Danny and Michael Philippou-the siblings behind Talk to Me, the summer's scariest movie-they described the mythology bible" they assembled to keep track of the story's many creepy spirits. Now, it seems they also picked up their cameras to create additional contextual material.Read more...

Rom-com Elemental-initially a disappointment for Pixar and Disney-has continued to rack up money at the box office, and now the sleeper hit has a new income stream in its near future: home viewers. Peter Sohn's animated tale will soon arrive on digital, followed by a physical release, and it's bringing tons of extras...Read more...

When mutantkind established its own sovereign nation on Krakoa, it established three new tenants for the newly-unified species to live by: Make More Mutants, Murder No Man, and Respect This Sacred Land. For the most part, give or take a few loopholes, the Krakoan Age was defined by these tenets until last week's ...Read more...

Jack Quaid is not going flame on!" any time soon.Read more...

Nothing, the company behind the second-gen, see-through,light-up smartphone that's generated positive user reviews since its debut last month, has announced a new brand called CMF by Nothing. In a quarterly community update video, Nothing's co-founder and CEO, Carl Pei, explains that CMF by Nothing will be focused on...Read more...

It's peak summer in the U.S. and spotted lanternflies have graduated into full-grown adults that are flapping about in all their spotty glory. Another year of sighting these winged insects means another year for us to do our part in squishing lanternflies and eliminating them from our ecosystems.Read more...

What's the point of an app if you can't make money on it? Such is the thought process of Twitter owner Elon Musk, as the first part of his grand plan to turn the bird app into the everything app" will start with transforming the site into yet another stock trading platform.Read more...

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Legendary Warner Bros. icons get reimagined by 10 global artists in a new collection for WB 100, marking the studio's 100th anniversary.Read more...

As with many inquiries to Apple's helper bot, asking Siri to read my lips," comes back with a I'm not sure I understand" message. After all, Apple has so far eschewed talking much about modern AI systems. Why would the voice recognition service also want to be staring at me like HAL 9000 from 2001: A Space Odyssey?Read more...

You don't become one of the largest tech companies on the planet without leaving a trail of artifacts in your wake. While many of Apple's former products and ventures may have been lost to time, others have been scrounged up by antique collectors and enthusiasts to be auctioned off for some huge returns. Everything...Read more...

Will this work/Who can say?/We're gonna sing it/anyway!" An interlude in the climactic song of Star Trek's first ever musical episode-and an underlying thesis that guides it as it swings for one of the boldest ideas the franchise has ever tried... and by god, does it nail it.

Remember when the company once called Facebook tried to convince the world to spend $300 on a pair of camera-equipped Ray-Bans capable of snapping photos of people while they weren't looking? Neither did we, really, but that hasn't stopped Meta from moving forward with a pricey multi-year plan to roll out new...Read more...

The makers of two popular but off-label weight loss drugs are now being sued over complications allegedly linked to their use. This week, a Louisiana woman filed a complaint against the companies Novo Nordisk and Eli Lilly, arguing that they have misled patients about the risk of severe gastrointestinal side effects...Read more...

Colorado-based company Voyager Space is collaborating with Europe's Airbus to build a commercial space station in low Earth orbit that will succeed the International Space Station (ISS) following its retirement.Read more...

There's some good news for those reluctant to carry a folding smartphone without an accessible safety net. Samsung has partnered with Asurion to convert existing uBreakiFix locations into specialized Samsung repair shops. By the end of 2023, the company says it will will equip 50 stores around the U.S. with the proper...Read more...

If I were to sit here and spew out every single thing that happens in Meg 2: The Trench, you'd probably get very excited about it. Purely as a list of bullet points, the film has everything you'd want in a movie about big, killer sharks: bigger killer sharks, unfathomable action scenes, terrifying new creatures,...Read more...

With as many classes and subclasses as there are in Dungeons & Dragons' current edition, trying to find balance for all of them is inevitably going to end up with some being left behind. While Monk as a class is one of the game's most interesting, one version of them has never quite hit its potential-but that could...Read more...

When The Mandalorian walked onto Disney+, Star Wars fans knew nothing about him. When Cassian Andor showed up on the streamer, most knew where he ended up, but no one knew how he got there. Both shows had a blank slate quality that, at least at the start, made them accessible to Star Wars fans of any kind. The next...Read more...

A group of researchers has discovered a technique to jailbreak a Tesla's infotainment system, unlocking Full Self-Driving, heated seats, and other paid features for the low price of zero dollars.Read more...

In 2023, artists are still finding ways to connect with their fans. After a concertgoer threw a drink at a Cardi B performance last week, Cardi B retaliated by throwing her microphone back. Now, that microphone is apparently up for auction on eBay.

A massive outburst from the Sun was felt across three worlds in a rare event that could help protect astronauts from harmful radiation during future missions.Read more...

In a stunning display of not seeing the forest for the trees, yesterday's Q2 earnings call for Warner Bros. saw the studio remark on the current impact of the ongoing dual strikes by the WGA and SAG-AFTRA. The good news: they of course hope the strikes will end soon. The bad? Well, it's not bad for Warner Bros., as...Read more...