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The days may be getting shorter, but October's list of new sci-fi, fantasy, and horror books is as long as ever, with a seasonally appropriate emphasis on horror." There are witches, haunted houses, monsters, and more-plus celebrity cameos, like Star Trek icon Patrick Stewart, and a host of new anthologies, including...Read more...

The GOP's biggest gripes with big tech content moderation will have their day in the United States' highest court. On Friday, the Supreme Court agreed to hear arguments for Florida and Texas' big bills that have tried to stop big tech companies from moderating disinformation or other speech. The outcome has the...Read more...

The Lenovo ThinkBook Plus Gen 4 hits a couple of my soft spots. It's a hybrid PC with an inventive, risk-taking design, and it includes an E Ink display. And not just any E Ink display, but one of the only color E Ink displays I've seen in the real world. The other side of the display is a 13-inch OLED panel, which...Read more...

Anyone disappointed that they didn't get to see last year's awesome Predator-prequel Prey in theaters will soon get the next best thing. The streaming title is getting its very own 4K/Blu-ray release next week and io9 has an exclusive clip from the special features.Read more...

French authorities reportedly raided Nvidia's local offices this week to investigate the company's suspected anti-competitive practices. The raid was based on a final opinion report by the Autorite de la concurrence which published a market study on cloud sector competition in June.Read more...

NASA's groundbreaking Parker Solar Probe continues to set new milestones, diving continuously deeper towards the Sun, and offering insights into the star's enigmatic atmosphere and how it affects space weather.

A new Fall of the House of Usher clip introduces us to its world. Chucky makes a threat in new footage from season 3. Samara Weaving's new sci-fi action movie finds a home.. Plus, teases for Luca Guadagnino's take on Lord of the Flies, and even more footage from Saw X and Exorcist: Believer. Spoilers now!

France may finally allow Apple to sell iPhone 12s in the country again after Apple has seemingly met the country's electromagnetic radiation standards.Read more...

As Google faces a massive antitrust lawsuit, revelations surrounding the case have presented us with a glimpse into an alternate reality. Microsoft reportedly discussed selling Bing to Apple just a few years ago, and if the deal went through, Google would have no longer been the default search engine on iPhone.Read more...

A team of researchers from around the world, led by Ohio State University, will be gathering data to create artificial intelligence-informed models to better understand the long-term impact of the climate crisis on biodiversity.

Filmmaker David Gordon Green's Disneylandbiopic centering on Walt Disney and his brother Roy O. Disney is currently being held up... for now.Read more...

We may not ever see the end of Matthew Vaughn's Kingsman series on film, but his next movie looks like it fits right in. This February, the man who directed Kingsman, Kick-Ass, Layer Cake, and X-Men: First Class returns with his latest spy film, Argylle, and the trailer has to be seen to be believed.Read more...

Balancing the need to bring a new but familiar sound to Star Wars while also playing in the footsteps of John Williams' legendary music for the saga is a challenge for every composer who joins the franchise. Few have faced it as often as the Kiner family-composer and father Kevin, alongside his children Deana and...Read more...

Blue Beetle delivered a solid DC superhero adventure with Jaime Reyes' origin story, and you can now watch the beginning of the film on YouTube.Read more...

The Department of Agriculture (DOA) has confirmed that a local sighting of the invasive spotted lanternfly was reported on Sept. 16, marking yet another state it's migrated to since the colorful insect was first sighted in the U.S. nearly a decade ago. The Department of Agriculture did not disclose the lanternfly's...Read more...

Iran claims it has successfully placed a third imaging satellite in orbit, a move that will likely garner more criticism from the Western world over fears that the Islamic republic is bolstering its ballistic missile technology.Read more...

It's only been about a year since Uber Eats began deploying food delivery robots throughout select parts of Los Angeles and, already, concerns have been raised that the squat little automatons could become a police surveillance tool.Read more...

Big tech companies want to put big, driverless trucks on the road, and California Gov. Gavin Newsom is ready to help them reach that goal. Now the Democratic mainstay is taking a beating from unions who say he's allowed unsafe 10,000+-pound vehicles onto the road without drivers.

The last time Lower Decks truly surprised me was in season two's remarkable tri-perspective episode wej Duj," a compelling experimental story that examined the plights of lower deckers across all sorts of Star Trek vessels, not just Starfleet. It's fitting then perhaps that in surprising me this week, it does so by...Read more...

In December 2020, the Arecibo Observatory's radio telescope was destroyed when a catastrophic cable failure caused its 900-ton platform to collapse onto the iconic dish below. Now, the National Science Foundation has named the stewards of the site's future as an education center, marking the probable end of Arecibo's...Read more...

Star Trek: Picard ended earlier this year, and though the series could be messy at times, leading man Patrick Stewart always made it work. While the future of Jean-Luc and other Next Generation cast members is still up in the air after the show wrapped its three-season run, Stewart's now reminiscing on how the show...Read more...

The video game company behind the massive battle royale game Fortnite is also fighting for its life. Epic Games is reportedly laying off 870 employees as well as selling some of its previous acquisitions.

Just like people, some elephants might have more of a knack for puzzles than others, new research this week suggests. The study of wild Asian elephants at an animal sanctuary found that only some were willing and able to solve a puzzle box that offered food as a reward, and even fewer cracked all three types of...Read more...

Anyone who has used H&R Block's tax return preparation services in recent years may have unintentionally helped line Meta and Google's pockets. That's according to a new class action lawsuit which alleges the three companies jointly schemed" to install trackers on the H&R Block site to scan and transmit tax data back...Read more...

In a year that already saw a rather entertaining Evil Dead universe entry in the form of Evil Dead Rise, there's more good news for fans of the Sam Raimi-created cult horror classic: all three seasons of the late, great Starz series Ash vs. Evil Dead are coming to Hulu October 1.

If you're an extremely online Apple user, you've probably heard the collective disappointment over the company's new FineWoven cases for the iPhone 15/15 Pro series. Everyone from Reddit to The Verge to Digital Trends has reasons why you shouldn't spend $60 on Apple's case made of recycled materials. It's a scratch...Read more...

Whether it's sinking the Titanic, inventing new technology to make Avatar, or making VFX history with Terminator 2, filmmaking is never easy for James Cameron. Almost every film he makes raises the bar in some way, usually with wildly successful results. And yet, when that happens no one making the movie is ever...Read more...

Since before the iPhone 15 first hit the market, there have been concerns about the new titanium frame and A17 processor causing it to get hot. After its release, some users have hammered Apple with complaints the new iPhone 15 Pro gets hot, like really hot. Are we looking at a quality control disaster or just a speed...Read more...

Amazon stalled the European Union's Digital Services Act (DSA)requirements by claiming it isn't a very large online platform, according to a court ruling on Wednesday. In April, the EU ordered the tech company to abide by DSA rules to regulate its content moderation policies and provide ad-transparency data.Read more...

After reports last year indicated that Russell T. Davies' plan to pretty much what he did the first time on Doctor Who but, well, again, would include another returning favorite in a behind-the-scenes companion series, the BBC has confirmed that when Doctor Who returns in November, it won't be alone.

58-year-old Lawrence Faucette has become a medical milestone this month, being only the second living person in the world to have received a heart transplant from a genetically modified pig.Read more...

The Chandra X-ray Observatory didn't exist in 1838, when the Eta Carinae star system started to brighten as it ejected material in an event named the Great Eruption." But traces of the eruption remain, and a timelapse has now been created by compiling 20 years of the space telescope's data to showcase the dynamic...Read more...

Elon Musk's SpaceX has secured a Pentagon contract for its military satellite network, Starshield. This news, first reported by Bloomberg, marks the Pentagon's first confirmed Starshield contract with SpaceX.

The Castlevania video game series has always been about the legacy of its heroes and vampiric villains-a battle between good and evil that plays out across generations of slayers as they battle the returning evil of Dracula and his allies. After a few years away from Netflix, Powerhouse's animated adaptation is taking...Read more...

The Federal Aviation Administration has closed its investigation into Blue Origin's New Shepard failed launch in September 2022, but the suborbital rocket remains grounded.Read more...

Extreme heat is deadly. Exposure to high temperatures can make people sick and eventually lead to heat exhaustion and heat stroke. But new research shows that rising temperatures come with other compounding dangers. This week,A study published in the journal Communications Medicine found that higher temperatures are...Read more...

A week before Google debuts the next-generation Pixel Watch, Fitbit is introducing the Charge 6 fitness band. The wellness-centered wearable launches in conjunction with the revamped Fitbit app. It's billed as the only fitness track with Google smarts." Depending on who you are, that'll either make you very happy or...Read more...

Few shows have enjoyed the kind of immediate, deeply invested fanbase that Our Flag Means Death garnered in 2022. This silly, tender, queer pirate show reimagined the legends of notorious pirates Blackbeard (Taika Waititi) and Stede Bonnet (Rhys Darby) in an anachronistic Caribbean. David Jenkins, the beloved director...Read more...

At a conference on Wednesday, X CEO Linda Yaccarino contradicted Elon Musk's claims that the platform's election monitoring team has been eliminated. Yaccarino disputed these claims, saying the team is growing" and will continue to monitor political misinformation on the platform.

Four more Exorcist: Believer clips tease a returning nightmare. Wolf Like Me season 2's new trailer shows troubled times ahead for the werewolf romance. he cast of The Boys welcomes the cast of Gen V in a new featurette. Plus, what's coming on Star Trek: Lower Decks. Spoilers now!

Reddit said it was simplifying" its ad privacy options by removing the ability to ignore targeted ads based on what communities you join, which posts you upvote or downvote, and how you spend your time on the platform.Read more...

After rumors began to swirl that Apple alum Jony Ive and OpenAI CEO Sam Altman were having collaborative talks on a mysterious piece of AI hardware, it appears that the pair are indeed trying to corner the smartphone market. The two are reportedly discussing a collaboration on a new kind of smartphone device with $1...Read more...

Today, tabletop roleplaying game publisher Evil Genius filed a lawsuit against Netflix for Breach of Contract. Evil Genius was hired to create a franchise TTRPG for Zack Snyder's Rebel Moon, and alleges that after working alongside Netflix and Snyder, Netflix unceremoniously terminated its contract.Read more...

Recovering a password has never been as elaborate or entertaining as it is in Riddle of Fire, which had its U.S. premiere at Fantastic Fest 2023 this week. In the film, a trio of badass kids steal a yet-to-be-released video game console, get it home, but run into a problem. Mom has password-protected the TV. All they...Read more...

Netflix's new Castlevania show, Nocturne, is set hundreds of years after the events of the original series, with a long-line descendant of heroes Trevor Belmont and Sypha Belnades, Richter, headlining the cast. What better way to connect the Belmont Clan bloodline across shows than immediately giving the poor young...Read more...

As if life isn't hard enough already: rabid otters are apparently a thing. Florida health officials reported this week that a 74-year-old man and a dog were bitten by an aggressiveotter, one that later tested positive for the usually fatal viral infection. Both victims have reportedly received treatment and the otter...Read more...

After blasting beams of energy through the clouds for the past 17 years, NASA's lidar satellite mission came to an end this past August, the agency has revealed.Read more...

Most modern disaster movies are rather cheesy-big, special effects spectacles that are an excuse to showcase lots of destruction and action. Concrete Utopia, a South Korean disaster movie, has some of that, but really focuses more on what comes in the immediate aftermath. First, the film grabs your attention with a...Read more...

The U.S. Department of Justice (DoJ) filed a lawsuit against eBay, Inc. in a Brooklyn Court on Wednesday for allegedly violating the Clean Air Act and other environmental laws and for permitting users to sell harmful products that don't align with automobile pollution controls.Read more...

Every tech company in existence is currently racing to cram as much AI into their product base as possible, so it's not at all surprising that Meta's annual Connect event was flush with such developments this year. In addition to a number of new VR and metaverse"-adjacent products and features, Meta's pale commander...Read more...