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Get new looks at Halloween Ends, Hellraiser, and Hocus Pocus 2. Netflix sets release dates for The School For Good and Evil and Troll. Plus, what’s coming on Reginald the Vampire, and Shudder’s latest horror delight sends a livestreamer into a haunted house. Spoilers, away!

New research into the star Betelgeuse indicates that the red giant, easily seen in the constellation Orion, may have appeared more orange-yellow in the not-so-distant past.

There’s no getting around it, June was a disastrous month for cryptocurrency.

“If we begin to feel that we’re being surveilled all the time, our behavior changes. We begin to do less. We begin to think about things less. We begin to modify how we think.” - Tim CookRead more...

Steven Bannon, the former advisor to Donald Trump who helped turn the neo-fascist billionaire into a mainstream political entity, is expected to be indicted this week on new charges relating to his alleged scam to build a wall on private property at the U.S.-Mexico border, according to a new report from the …Read more...

Anyone who’s seen the Peter Jackson Lord of the Rings movies will recall that for all their creatures and battle scenes, one of their niftiest special effects—showing the height difference between wee Frodo and towering Gandalf—was always one of the most visually striking. That’s also the case with Prime Video’s new…Read more...

People are ready for Brendan Fraser to make his comeback. By all accounts, that will happen with The Whale, Darren Aronofsky’s upcoming film starring Fraser as a 600-lb. English teacher trying to reconnect with his daughter, which buzz suggests has already put him in contention for a Best Actor nomination. But what…Read more...

In a new paper this month, doctors describe how a 32-year-old man’s habit of inhaling nitrous oxide via “whippits” left him partially paralyzed. Following treatment and the end of his nitrous oxide use, the man did eventually regain the function of his legs. But the medical tale is perhaps a timely reminder of why…Read more...

Good news for fans of Star Wars’ Dark Side. It seems Leslye Headland’s High Republic-set Disney+ show, Star Wars: The Acolyte, is currently casting up beyond just its star, Amandla Stenberg. Now actress Jodie Turner-Smith is reportedly joining the mix in an undisclosed role.Read more...

House of the Dragon, following in the footsteps and long shadow of its predecessor, wasted no time in giving itself a meaty battle scene this week. But its first major skirmish marked a noted difference—beneath the blood and guts, a sort of grimly hilarious mythos plays out.

In and around Jackson, Mississippi, more than 180,000 people have been without running or drinkable water for over a week. Flooding from heavy rainfall damaged water treatment plants and other infrastructure, exacerbating existing issues of an old and poorly maintained system. Though water pressure was restored over…Read more...

A former housekeeper for Israel Defense Minister Benny Gantz will spend three years in prison for allegedly attempting to infect the official’s computer with malware in exchange for cash from Iran-linked hackers. The cleaner, the BBC notes, agreed to a plea deal to avoid being prosecuted under espionage charges which…Read more...

Elizabeth Holmes—the founder of blood testing startup Theranos and the poster child for misleading investors, media, and innocent people looking for medical care through a web of deceit—wants a do-over. She is requesting a new trial, according to a document filed Tuesday in the Southern District Court of California.

A fun bit of news to get us started: the DIE RPG has an actual play(test) available on YouTube featuring writer/designer Kieron Gillen. Also, a fun little note, we’ve got some great magazines publishing RPG content—check out the new issues of Indiepocalypse and Arcadia for that sweet sweet game content!Read more...

There’s a diamond shaped hole in the earth that’s getting unknowingly deep, and we’re all staring into its depths with minds grown ragged with questions. “The Merge,” which promises a move from the old proof-of-work consensus model to the proof-of-stake, is coming on in a week’s time, if promises from a notoriously…Read more...

The near-future of hair loss treatment seems to be quite promising. Recent research in mice points to a potentially new way of restoring hair, while other approaches are set to undergo clinical trials in humans soon.Read more...

CNN has announced a new hire: John Miller, the former head of the New York Police Department’s intelligence unit.

It’s a carnival goers’ worst nightmare come to life. A drop tower ride at a carnival in India plummeted to the ground, dropping 50-feet before crashing at the bottom. Several people suffered injuries from the drop, and were rushed to nearby hospitals.Read more...

For a moment it seemed as if DC Films might have its leader, but alas, the ship remains without a captain. Late last month, there were conflicting reports that producer Dan Lin, who helped bring both It films, The Lego Movies, and the Aladdin remake to fruition, was being eyed as the new head of DC Films. One trade…Read more...

The Thwaites Glacier, one of the most unstable parts of Antarctica’s ice sheet, could be gearing up for even more rapid changes than we previously thought. In a study published this week in Nature Geoscience, a team of researchers have published new images of the ocean’s floor that they say provide valuable…Read more...

Juul’s 2022 just went from bad to worse. The e-cigarette maker somehow managed to narrowly survive (at least for now) a Federal Drug Administration effort to ban its products nationwide only to get smacked with a settlement worth nearly half a billion this week.Read more...

A far-right politician in Italy made waves online Monday after posting a video of himself walking up to a Roma woman and telling Italians that a vote for his party in this month’s elections will ensure they “never see her again” in the city of Florence.Read more...

I spend way too much time on the internet, and this morning I found that social media’s newest obsession is the drama surrounding Olivia Wilde’s psychological thriller Don’t Worry Darling.

NASA’s Space Launch System is powered by a mixture of liquid hydrogen and liquid oxygen. Together, these elements provide for a compact and extremely powerful rocket propellant, but these same attributes are also what make this fuel a liability.Read more...

Solar Orbiter has been traveling through space for more than two years, making several close flybys of Venus as it steadily inches closer to the Sun. On September 4, the small spacecraft was in the midst of its most recent gravitational assist when it felt the violent wrath of our host star.

Since its debut eight years ago, the face of the encrypted messaging app Signal has been its founder Moxie Marlinspike. In January, Marlinspike said he’d be stepping down as CEO. And while Signal hasn’t found a permanent replacement for its top executive, it’s starting to round out its leadership bench. On Monday, the…Read more...

Was TikTok hacked? According to the company itself, the answer to that question is: definitely not. And security researchers who have looked into the matter seem to agree.

Apple’s iPhone 14 event is less than a day away. The “Far Out” event, as the company is calling it, will take place on Sept. 7 at 10 A.M. PT / 1 P.M. ET. in person at the Steve Jobs Theater at Apple’s Cupertino headquarters. Apple will live stream it online for anyone who wants to watch it at home.Read more...

If you’ve read Marjorie Liu and Sana Takeda’s award-winning, New York Times-bestselling fantasy comic Monstress, you know two things. First, it’s an incredibly rich world as epic as Game of Thrones but even more imaginative, and second, it is gorgeous. Now Liu and Takeda have combined their immense talents again for a…Read more...

YouTube was on the precipice of cutting all of its most profitable ads amid fallout from Elsagate, the most bizarre scandal in the history of the biggest video-sharing site on the internet. It’s a silly name, but it hearkens to a time when thousands of disturbing algorithm-driven videos starring popular children’s…Read more...

The Star Trek movies changed the franchise forever, not just catapulting the series onto the big screen and giving a second life to its original heroes, but helping shape its future on the small screen as we gave way to The Next Generation. To celebrate these beloved movies getting a lavish new remastering, let’s take…Read more...

The latest wonder from the Webb Space Telescope is a new look at the Tarantula Nebula, a swirling mass of infantile and yet-to-be conceived stars. What looks like spider silk surrounds a hollowed-out center, where material has been blasted away by radiation, according to a NASA release.Read more...

Netflix is catering to the goths again with Wendell & Wild, its upcoming stop-motion tale directed by Henry Selick (Nightmare Before Christmas, Coraline), co-written by Selick and Jordan Peele (Nope), and co-starring Peele and his longtime Key & Peele collaborator Keegan-Michael Key. We’ve been wanting to see more of…Read more...

If you’re lucky enough to find yourself in a position where you can afford a house, you’ll soon find yourself in the unlucky position of having a yard full of grass and weeds demanding constant maintenance. To simplify the task of keeping their lawn from turning into a jungle, one YouTuber went full supervillain and…Read more...

As io9 co-founders Annalee Newitz and Charlie Jane Anders acted as Toastmasters during the Hugo awards ceremony at Chicon, the 80th World Science Fiction and Fantasy convention, they were also awarded with some Hugos of their very own!Read more...

A huge oilfield in the Gulf of Mexico, which caused a hellish fire in the ocean last year, has been releasing massive amounts of planet-warming methane. Reuters reported last week on satellite data that shows that the Ku-Maloob-Zaap oilfield leaked 44,064 tons of methane into the atmosphere over the course of 24 days…Read more...

The Brazilian government’s going to battle with Apple over its chargers, or more aptly, its lack of them. On Tuesday, Brazil’s Justice Ministry reportedly hit the smartphone giant for 12.275 million reais (or around $2.38 million) and ordered Apple to cease selling models that don’t ship with a charger. That sudden…Read more...

A merger that would’ve made Donald Trump’s social media venture into a publicly traded company, and provided Truth Social with $1.3 billion in cash investment is crumbling, according to a report from Reuters. Shareholders have rejected a one-year extension to finalize the acquisition, “people familiar with the matter”…Read more...

A heat wave scorched states out West during the Labor Day weekend, sparking heat warnings for tens of millions of people. As of Tuesday, the ongoing heat is fueling wildfires and threatening California’s electrical grid, with officials urging residents to reduce their power use in order to head off blackouts.Read more...

Ireland is not fucking around with Meta. The Irish Data Protection Commission has fined the social media platform Instagram €405 million over its alleged mishandling of data from business accounts run by 13 to 17 year olds.

The next chapter in the Mobile Suit Gundam saga finally has a solid release date, and our latest look at it yet gives a look at its real premise—and perhaps not quite so many giant robot fights as you might first expect.

One of the many reasons to switch to a mechanical keyboard—besides the mustache-twirling joy in shattering the silence of a quiet office—is being able to easily customize your keyboard’s appearance: a selling point the creators of the MelGeek Pixel are heavily leaning on with what they claim is the world’s first…Read more...

In a few weeks’ time, stablecoin holders on Binance will find their crypto doesn’t carry the same name, or the same price, as it had previously. The exchange effectively told its users it’ll be digging its long, thin fingers into each of their wallets, taking out their old crypto, and replacing it with their own,…Read more...

The Spy Kids reboot has finished filming. Get another look at Disney’s rapidly-incoming Pinocchio remake. Terry Silver wants you to be a winner in a new Cobra Kai teaser. Plus, what’s coming on House of the Dragon, and Rick and Morty gets its shill on ahead of the new season. Spoilers now!

He might not have as recognizable a name as corporate executives from companies like Apple and Microsoft, but next month, Sony will be saying goodbye to Masayasu Ito, who led the hardware development on the PS4, the PS5, and some of the company’s other notable gaming devices.Read more...

Will Sloan, a movie podcast host in Canada, first posted an old family photo online in 2016, asking if anyone knew what cartoon was playing on the TV in the background. Oddly, nobody on the internet could figure it out. But someone finally cracked the case on Monday after six long years.

Ah, I believe it was that wise old philosopher Garfield the cat who called Labor Day the time we “celebrate work by playing all day.” So let us celebrate twerk as well, and take a moment to enjoy these utterly delightful photos of Tatiana Maslany, pre-CG, twerking with Megan Thee Stallion on last week’s episode of …Read more...

HBO Max’s Harley Quinn series is popular enough to not only survive the streaming service’s recent bloodbath, but manage to score a fourth season. If you watched the recent episode where the reformed family man Joker runs for Gotham’s mayor, you likely know why. But as good as Harley Quinn has been, I was shocked to…Read more...

Adult Swim’s Rick and Morty kicked off its sixth season last night—and while you’re waiting for the next episode, why not whip up some snacks inspired by the animated sensation? io9 has a first look at Rick and Morty: The Official Cookbook, releasing October 4, including two exclusive pages.Read more...