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As the Pixel 8/8 Pro nears its debut, so does the eventual launch of the next version of Android. Google typically plans its software updates around new phone launches. This week, Google released Android 14 QPR1 Beta 1, essentially the dress rehearsal for the OS. Code sleuths have been digging through the new build to...Read more...

The pandemic-era shift to remote learning sparked an acceleration of an already growing trend: education technology companies jockeying to sell schools on systems for monitoring students and filtering their internet browsing. Though school administrators will argue these tools are necessary to ensure kids' safety...Read more...

Mike Flanagan's The Fall of the House of Usher isn't an adaptation of Edgar Allan Poe's short story. It is instead a reimagining of the entire Poe oeuvre, a resurrected corpus operis with all the bodies laid out on the table, given new, feverish life inside the framework of Roderick Usher's legacy of doom.Read more...

The idea that the universe is just a simulation has become increasingly popular in sci-fi-and Team Planet Express will explore just that in the Futurama season 11 finale, All the Way Down." Hulu has released a trio of clips ahead of Sunday's premiere to tease what's in store.Read more...

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Officials including Governor Gavin Newsom are working to stabilize the state's insurance market. In an attempt to keep insurers in California, the state will allow insurance companies to consider climate change when setting prices.

We know The Exorcist: Believer is going to feature two girls being targeted by evil spirits after something happens to them while they're lost in a forest, with demon-fighting veteran Chris MacNeil (Ellen Burstyn) coming to their aid. Thanks to a first-look clip from the film, we now have a better understanding of...Read more...

A team of scientists say they may have found a new way to mitigate one of the most dangerous complications of space travel: the steady and inevitable loss of bone mass. In new research published this week, the team's experimental treatment was able to promote bone growth in mice living aboard the International Space...Read more...

Hasbro's movie-based side of Marvel Legends is about to swing into high gear with a brand new wave based on Spider-Man: No Way Home-and if you were patiently waiting through the company's past releases from the movie expecting certain heroes and villains, your wait is about to pay off... and so is your wallet.

Unity is backpedaling after a disastrous attempt to change the fees it charges developers to a model that would charge on a per-download basis, the company announced on Friday. Subscribers to the current Unity Personal platform will not be charged a new fee to develop games on the platform and it will change the...Read more...

In the last 11 years since Star Wars' Expanded Universe faded into legends" as a new canon for the galaxy far, far away was laid out, many elements big and small from its time as Star Wars' ancillary text have made their way back into continuity. But one surprising book above all has had a huge influence on the...Read more...

From Los Angeles and Las Vegas, to New York City and Orlando-Halloween is in full force across the country, and it isn't even October yet.Read more...

Two of the hottest concert tours of the summer, Beyonce's Renaissance World Tour and Taylor Swift's The Eras Tour, sparked a national conversation on the way online marketplaces and ticket resellers exploit diehard fans looking to have some fun. Now, the Internal Revenue Service is tightening its grip around ticket...Read more...

On a newly released 911 audio recording, the pilot who ejected from the F-35 fighter jet that went missing last weekend is heard requesting an ambulance from a South Carolina home. In the four-minute-long recording, the homeowner is heard telling the 911 dispatcher that the pilot parachuted into his backyard and...Read more...

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The findings from an independent review board suggest that NASA's quest to return samples from Mars is riddled with challenges and seemingly impossible to accomplish under the current cost and schedule expectations.Read more...

For many horror fans, much of their thinking about The Exorcist III is tied into That One Scene. It may be the scariest movie scene ever, and that's saying a lot for a movie that's the second sequel to what many call the scariest movie ever. But it's not a meaningless gotcha" moment; by the time The Exorcist III gets...Read more...

Ahsoka has given us a bunch of very interesting Star Wars-y things to ruminate on so far, but perhaps few are as interesting or as immediately compelling as two of its new characters have been-the former Jedi turned sinister mercenary Baylan Skoll, and his apprentice Shin Hati. And now, as is Star Wars custom, these...Read more...

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National forecasters are keeping an eye on a storm system brewing just off the coast of the Carolinas that is likely to move up to some states in the Northeast this weekend, according to the National Hurricane Center.

The Webb Space Telescope has made its latest significant discovery: the observation of carbon dioxide coming from a part of Europa, the frozen moon orbiting Jupiter which harbors a salty water ocean under its icy surface.Read more...

About 20 minutes into watching new sci-fi thriller No One Will Save You,I said to myself, Wait, has anyone spoken in this yet?" Sure, there had been sound. Lots of very interesting, creepy sounds. And there'd been music too; evocative, atmospheric music. But little to no dialogue. Which is exactly when I realized...Read more...

It was an unfortunate week for the rocket industry, with three distinct setbacks occurring and challenging the plans of three different aerospace companies across the globe.

No matter what your level of knowledge is when it comes to The Toxic Avenger, you basically know what to expect. It's right there in the phrase The Toxic Avenger." Someone is avenging and they're toxic. Is that literal? Figurative? It doesn't matter. This isn't going to be serious. This is going to be very, very...Read more...

Twitter, recently renamed X, is shutting down its Circles feature. Circles allows users to share posts with select people rather than all of their followers but it seems Elon Musk would prefer people just put it all out there or keep it to themselves. The feature will be removed next month, just over one year after Cir...Read more...

As authors grapple with the anxiety of an impending AI takeover in the publishing world, Amazon wants you to know that it's taking those concerns very seriously. The bookstore-turned-commerce giant has revealed a new self-publishing limit that cannot exceed three books per day.Read more...

Take a listen to creepy tracks from Saw X. David Duchovny talks Pet Sematary: Bloodlines. Plus, Upload prepares for season 3 with a new trailer, and what's coming on Invasion. Spoilers now!

Amidst a massive $69 billion dollar deal by Microsoft to purchase Activision-the largest deal in video game history-the tech giant has faced a good bit of turbulence. After UK regulators initially blocked the acquisition last spring, Microsoft scrambled to tweak the agreement and it's now received preliminary approval....Read more...

Amazon has always handled its streaming video slate a little differently than the competition. Other companies have slyly introduced a cheaper ad-free option while slowly raising prices on non-ad-based subscription tiers, Prime Video is taking a different tack. The streaming service plans to hold ad-free watching...Read more...

In this, our year of 2023, NSYNC has broken the internet with a reunion and confirmation that three members of the group were in Star Wars Episode II: Attack of the Clones. My 90s nerdy teeny bopper brain can't process two of my core fandoms almost crossing over: boy bands and Star Wars.Read more...

While we can't really tell what's happening in the trailer for V/H/S/85, based on the disturbing glimpses it gives-as well as our prior knowledge of the V/H/S series-we can assume it's a lot of just godawful things, made even more terrifying as they're rendered in grainy, retro-vintage formats.Read more...

Facebook users can now create multiple personal profiles with unique feeds and relevant content for each one, Meta announced in a press release on Thursday. Historically, users had to create a completely unattached profile and log in and out to toggle between the two, but that is changing with the new feature.Read more...

As more rockets liftoff into the skies, the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) is trying to control how long those launch vehicles stay in orbit as floating space junk.Read more...

This week Shonen Jump launched one of its most anticipated new series of the season: Takeru Hokazono's contemporary Yakuza/Fantasy swordsman series Kagurabachi. But while it's already making big waves after just one chapter, the manga has become an altogether stranger hit online.

Are you thinking of buying the new iPhone 15 Pro? Take a look inside first. An unofficial teardown of the iPhone 15 Pro by PBKreviews is currently making the rounds. The ten-minute video shows a modular disassembly of components, which vibes with Apple's promises of easier repairs. Still, this look at the relative...Read more...

NASA's $800 million OSIRIS-REx mission launched to space in September 2016 with a simple, albeit ambitious, objective: travel to a distant asteroid and bring back a sample of it. The spacecraft is now nearly home, and scientists spotted the it for the first time last week as it made its return.Read more...

Enoch Fryxelius, the CEO of FryxGames, took to Facebook today to defend the use of AI in the Terraforming Mars project, and announced that the company's next board game will not be including AI.Read more...

As Elon Musk threatens to charge all users with a monthly subscription to access Twitter, Snap is seeing a userbase more willing to pay to use the perks of its platform. Snap's membership service Snapchat+ has reached a whopping 5 million users, which is officially halfway to its goal of 10 million.Read more...

In new research this week, scientists say they've unearthed a viral denizen from the depths of the Mariana Trench. The virus is believed to be the deepest of its kind ever discovered and preys on certain bacteria.Read more...

All good things are doomed," warns the marketing for the final chunk of Doom Patrol episodes, but you can bet Max's DC series about a misfit team of oddly powered superheroes isn't going to say farewell without some high-stakes action-and at least one battle against an ever-growing hoard of butts."

It seems Twitter-the company now calling itself X" based on one billionaire's nostalgic whim-can't escape users' dissatisfaction with the platform, not even in its own advertising.Read more...

Even four seasons in, it's not a difficult argument to make that for all its aims of being a show with four primary characters, Lower Decks has been most focused, and at its strongest, on two of those characters in particular. But season four is working on a lot of the show's weaknesses, and this week it takes that...Read more...

Thrawn has finally arrived on Ahsoka and into live-action Star Wars media at large, and-as has become the tradition-Disney+ is marking the character's debut with a snazzy new poster. All the major new faces in Far, Far Away" got them, in fact, including some guy named Ezra Bridger.Read more...

In his new movie 57 Seconds, Josh Hutcherson discovers the ability to travel through time... sort of. While undoing just under a minute of time and space might not seem like the most useful time travel, it's still enough to blow someone's mind wide open when they discover it, as you can see in this exclusive clip.

Planescape has returned to Dungeons & Dragons. Planescape: Adventures in the Multiverse includes three new books: the setting book Sigil and the Outlands;Turn of Fortune's Wheel, the campaign book; and Morte's Planar Parade, the bestiary.Read more...

As Uber continues to tout driver and rider safety as a number one priority, reports that its new spokesperson will be Robert De Niro playing Travis Bickle from 1976's Taxi Driver definitely caused some head-scratching. Lucky for us, while Robert De Niro will be involved in a new Uber campaign, he will not be reprising...Read more...

The International Space Station (ISS) has been orbiting Earth for 24 years, hosting crews of astronauts and running experiments in the microgravity environment. By 2030, however, the space station's reign in low Earth orbit must come to an end and NASA is figuring out exactly how to do that.Read more...

Billionaire, philanthropist, and former NYC Mayor Michael Bloomberg announced this week that he will invest $500 million into his campaign to shut down coal plants and halve gas use by 2030.Read more...

The arms race over the next generation of obesity drugs is continuing to heat up. This week, pharmaceutical company Eli Lilly announced it was suing several pharmacies, spas, and wellness centers in the U.S. for allegedly selling unauthorized copycats of its blockbuster drug tirzepatide, which is expected to be...Read more...

Media mogul Rupert Murdoch announced he is stepping down as chairman of News Corp. and Fox in a memo to staff on Thursday. He will officially retire in November and will pass the torch to his son, Lachlan Murdoch, who will also remain as CEO and executive chairman of Fox Corporation.