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Locke & Key season two arrives on Netflix on Friday, and since it’s been what feels like a pop culture eternity since its first season—it was actually February 2020—we decided a crash-course refresher for this spooky, heartfelt series was in order. This guide is most useful if you’ve already seen the series (and quite…Read more...

Another intriguing and lucrative use case exploring the potential of deepfake technology: dicks, unblurred. On Monday, police in Japan arrested a man who admitted to sharing porn that was deepfaked to clarify pixellated genitalia. According to The Mainichi, he sold over 2,500 video files for 11 million yen (roughly…Read more...

Brian K. Vaughan and Pia Guerra’s beloved Vertigo comic Y: The Last Man did not have an easy road to its live-action adaptation. Over the course of 14 years, there was a doomed movie, rights switcharoos, multiple recastings, and a pandemic that delayed it getting on screen in any format. But it took less than eight…Read more...

This week, one of the world’s most-watched plastic clean-up projects will announce victory. The Ocean Cleanup, a nonprofit that has set out to solve the huge problem of plastics in the ocean, will hold a press event Wednesday where it will review the success of its latest system. The group has already said the…Read more...

An international team of researchers recently measured the lifetime of a neutron outside of an atomic nucleus with extraordinary precision. By their measurements, the neutron survived for 14.629 minutes, or 877.75 seconds, give or take a third of a second.

After months of leaks and rumors, Google has finally officially announced the Pixel 6 and Pixel 6 Pro. These are the Pixels people have been waiting for.Read more...

Google recently made Android 12 available to developers and device makers, but now Google is rolling it out to the rest of us—that is, if you own a Pixel 3 or newer.Read more...

We’ve all known an eclectic tabletop RPG party or six—and maybe even been a part of them at some point in our dice-rolling lives, too. While there’s plenty of tales of heroic, stern, ideal, and noble heroes going out on fantasy adventures, Kendra Wells’ next graphic novel wants to focus on those more unlikely groups.

A new experimental vaccine could put a serious dent in the widespread epidemic of chlamydia that has devastated populations of koalas. This month, scientists in Australia announced the start of a large clinical trial that will vaccinate hundreds of koalas against the bacterial disease, which also sickens humans around…Read more...

The one good thing about Hollywood reimagining Batman every few years is that we get a new Batmobile each time. In Matt Reeve’s upcoming take on the caped crusader, Batman will cruise around Gotham in what looks more like a garage build muscle car than a repurposed tank, and thanks to Hot Wheels, you’ll soon have the…Read more...

She’s baaaaaaack. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Agency’s Climate Prediction Center said last week that a La Niña has developed in the Pacific Ocean and is set to last through the winter and into next spring. That’s bad news for the record drought in the West.

In September, a very large, incredibly powerful magnet was unloaded in Saint-Paul-lez-Durance in Southern France to be incorporated into the International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor (ITER), a major international collaboration that is attempting to prove the economic and technical feasibility of nuclear fusion.

Disney’s history with queer representation on-screen is, diplomatically, dicey at best. The company’s slow arc toward introducing LGBTQIA+ characters in major roles and tentpole films has laid the groundwork for eventual substance, but here and now, they’re mostly half steps—half steps that, more often than not, are…Read more...

If you’ve been holding out on buying a new phone in anticipation of Google’s Pixel 6, today’s the day we find out every single detail. The sixth-generation Android smartphone has been relentlessly leaked and teased these past few months—we know what it looks like, what Google’s custom processor can do, and even what…Read more...

The dirtiest fossil fuel is enjoying a renaissance in the U.S., but it could usher in a dark age for the climate.

The movie theater chain AMC is expanding its film captioning support across the U.S., bringing the feature to select showtimes at 240 theaters in more than 100 markets around the country.Read more...

I’m not going to lie: I’m not really up on the Diary of a Wimpy Kid franchise, given that the first volume of Jeff Kinney’s enormously popular novels about a beleaguered middle school-aged kid named Greg came out in 2007, a full 17 years after I left middle school myself. However, I do know a decent movie trailer when…Read more...

An amateur scuba diver out for a weekend swim has found an impressive iron sword dating back to the time of the Crusades.

Apple’s been rumored to be working on some kind of mixed reality headset for some time now. But like most gadgets these days, it appears that the headset will be delayed until the end of 2022 due to production issues.Read more...

There are so many ways to video chat with loved ones these days, but even with plenty of options and the bad press that Facebook can’t shake no matter how hard it tries, Facebook’s Portal remains one of the easiest ways to get in touch.

Apple gadgets are expensive. The accessories for those gadgets are also expensive. This we know, and yet, the company seems to always find new ways to make us go: Wait, you want us to pay how much now?Read more...

Batgirl adds a new mystery man to its cast. David Gordon Green wants Halloween Ends to stand out from its predecessors. Salma Hayek discusses Chloé Zhao’s passion in making Eternals. Plus, a new look at Doctor Who. Spoilers now!Read more...

A few hours before Apple revealed its updated third-generation AirPods during a pre-recorded event yesterday that included new MacBook Pro laptops, 9to5Mac discovered the company also has a new version of its Beats Studio Buds en route with a design better suited to staying in the ear during workouts.Read more...

GREENE COUNTY, PENNSYLVANIA—Last weekend, I found myself standing in a cemetery beside one of the largest processing plants in the country. The plant is fed by the largest underground mining complex in the country. The plant stood massive and tall beside the gravestones an oppressive shadow, its smokestacks like…Read more...

If you thought the first footage from Netflix’s Cowboy Bebop adaptation was going to be a normal look at the show, well... we’ve got some news for you, Bounty Hunters.

Have you seen that flyer claiming anytime you think about vaping maybe you should masturbate instead? It’s been going viral on right-wing social media thanks to commentators like Erick Erickson who say it’s part of a federal government program being unleashed in U.S. schools. But the flyer is completely fake.

North Korea tested what’s believed to be a submarine-launched missile near the country’s east coast around 10:17 a.m. local time on Tuesday, according to South Korea’s Yonhap news outlet, the same day that South Korea kicked off the Seoul International Aerospace and Defense Exhibition. And while we don’t know if North…Read more...

As companies trip over themselves to get retro toys back on shelves for nostalgic adults, Fisher-Price is taking a different route. Its iconic Chatter Telephone has been enjoyed by toddlers for 60 years now, and to celebrate that anniversary, Mattel has turned the toy into a fully-functional smartphone accessory that…Read more...

Someone hacked into and temporarily defaced the website of former President Donald Trump on Monday, weirdly embedding a YouTube video of Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan onto one of the site’s pages.Read more...

Back in 2018, we gathered ‘round the fiery jack-o-lantern to discuss the ending of David Gordon Green’s Halloween. Michael Myers’ survival was all but guaranteed—after all, Halloween Kills and Halloween Ends had already been announced, so there was no way slasher’s freakiest Shatner mask was going to incinerate in…Read more...

Apple just took the wraps off its redesigned MacBook Pros featuring new custom M1 Pro and M1 Max chips. And while I can’t help but be impressed by Apple’s lofty performance claims, folks are now wondering if this means the new MacBook Pros are suddenly good gaming laptops now. We haven’t used the new Pros so it’s too…Read more...

Man, The Suicide Squad was a lot of fun. Gory, blood-soaked, hyper-violent fun, but that was kind of its beauty—it was as much a dark comedy as it was an R-rated action flick. But there was once a scene in the movie’s script that would have made The Suicide Squad much, much darker, to a point that would have deeply…Read more...

A new study found that at least 45,000 Americans visited a major trauma center with horseback-related traumatic injury during a recent 10-year stretch—meaning that horseback riding likely sends more people to the hospital than other sports like football, auto and motorcycle racing, and skiing. The results indicate…Read more...

We are more than ready for an early Halloween this year, and what better way to prepare than by ranking all of the movies (so far) spawned by John Carpenter’s 1978 slasher masterpiece?Read more...

Despite a seemingly endless string of leaks leading up to it, Apple still managed to pack a few surprises into its fall 2021 “Unleashed” MacBook event on Monday.Read more...

Netflix’s trans employee resource group has sent the company a list of demands, among them, that the company acknowledges that transphobic content causes harm. Last week, in a company-wide memo responding to critics of Dave Chappelle, Netflix co-CEO Ted Sarandos specifically rejected that this is a fact. “While some…Read more...

It’s implicitly understood that the roughly $200 billion that folks are expected to spend on digital ads this year in the US will be spent on more than a few phony figures, puffed-up sales pitches, and numbers that are just, well blatantly fake. It’s just a reality in the industry and no one is immune. But some of…Read more...

Watching the new trailer for Hulu’s upcoming Hit-Monkey animated series, it’s interesting to consider whether Guardians of the Galaxy represented the moment when Marvel decided just how much ridiculous gun-violence the studio was comfortable getting away with, so long as an animal was pulling the trigger. The series’…Read more...

Here at Earther, I spend a lot of my time writing about the entities that are the most responsible for the climate crisis, like energy giants and other polluting companies. I know that these companies and their friends in government have spent decades promoting the false idea that we are all responsible for global…Read more...

The spice must flow, and flow it will when Denis Villeneuve’s long-awaited adaptation of sci-fi grandmaster Frank Herbert’s Dune arrives in the U.S. on October 22. But Villeneuve’s movie isn’t the only Dune available to check out—there’s a cult classic movie adaptation from 1984, two well-regarded miniseries that…Read more...

Microsoft brass knew that founder and former chairman of the board Bill Gates was propositioning female staff at the company as early as 2008 and told him to stop, the Wall Street Journal reported on Monday.Read more...

Fans are paying outsized amounts of attention the moment any tidbit of Marvel news breaks, and because the studio puts out so much information about what’s in the pipeline, it can be easy to get the impression you’re getting the full picture. But Tara Bennett and Paul Terry, the co-authors of Abrams’ upcoming The…Read more...

This week in creepy news: a Southern California man has admitted to conspiring with others to hack into hundreds of Apple iCloud accounts—mostly to steal nude photographs of young women.Read more...

New York City is dealing with an unusual outbreak of a rare, sometimes fatal disease spread through rat urine, called leptospirosis. At least 15 locals have contracted the bacterial disease in 2021 so far, according to health officials, with most hospitalized and one person dead as a result. It’s not known why cases…Read more...

macOS Monterey finally has a release date: During Apple’s Mac event on Monday, the company announced that Monterey—also known as macOS 12—will be available on Monday, Oct. 25.

We’ve been waiting for Apple’s MacBook Pros to get some truly pro updates—i.e. ports that are actually useful and upgraded performance—and the new versions look to fit the bill. Apple on Monday took the wraps off completely overhauled 14- and 16-inch versions of its popular Pro laptops, which ditch the (useful for…Read more...

Our latest look at Warner Bros. and DC’s The Batman is here, and it re-introduces us to Robert Pattinson’s angry young vigilante, as well as shining a spotlight on a few more faces barely glimpsed in the original trailer from last year. But what other details can we uncover? Let’s take a closer look.

Superman will join a climate strike in an upcoming comic. Superheroes—they’re just like everyday people.Read more...

During Apple’s fall ‘Unleashed’ event on Monday, the company announced some planned improvements to Apple Music that feature new Siri integrations that will make it easier to use your voice to access your tunes in different situations.Read more...

While we were all expecting MacBooks and AirPods, Apple threw a minor curveball out there today with a small HomePod Mini update. You can now get them in three new colors: blue, yellow, and reddish-orange.