Smallpox has left an unmistakable mark on human history, killing at least 300 million people in the 20th century alone. In spite of its notoriety, the virus‘s origins still remain elusive. Now, a team of scientists in Italy has pushed our best estimates for the emergence of smallpox back by another 2,000 years, verifying historical
I can’t get it out of my head: A honkingly big Caterpillar sign that read, “JOIN US AS WE BUILD A BETTER WORLD.” The digital recruitment billboard at CES 2023 followed promos for an autonomous compactor and excavator, and proceeded another callout: “CHECK OUT OUR BIG AUTONOMOUS TRUCK ⬇.” I did, and boy was it
New photos show the horror from the night Tory Lanez shot Meg Thee Stallion in the foot after an argument in Hollywood … including the damage done to Meg’s foot and the weapon used to commit the crime. We’ve obtained several trial exhibits from the Meg and Tory case that show everything from the blood
This feature began by consolidating four bestseller lists into one, but then the USA Today list went on hiatus, and it’s been down to three ever since. We still haven’t gotten an update on the USA Today list and whether it will be coming back at all, so I’ve decided to add a new bestseller
Do we really need colour-changing controllers in the world? Probably not. Do we want them? Hell yeah. The NACON Pro Compact controller for Xbox may not be our go-to gaming pad, especially not for long drawn-out sessions, but it’s not a bad option to have, particularly as it is well suited to those who need
When The Walking Dead debuted on AMC in 2010, it was a revelation: a high-octane thriller set during a zombie apocalypse that was grimmer and gorier than anything we’d ever seen on TV. But after eleven seasons, several spinoffs and countless knockoffs, the entire zombie genre started to feel like it was on its last
It’s almost hard to believe it, but it’s been nearly one year since the 2022 Academy Awards, where Will Smith famously walked on stage and slapped Chris Rock over a joke he made about Jada Pinkett Smith’s appearance. The discourse surrounding the incident hasn’t stopped in the months that have passed, as the Academy Award
In case you missed our GOTY 2022 coverage, feel free to give those episodes a listen before the first 2023 edition of Horror Byres! Horror Bytes of the Year GOTY Part 1 GOTY Part 2 Safe Room is back for another year of conversing all corners of the horror gaming space! And what better way
NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center has released an hour-long time-lapse video that shows 133 days of the Sun’s life. The video shows the Sun’s chaotic surface, where great loops of plasma arch above the star along magnetic field lines. Sometimes the looping plasma reconnects to the star, and other times it’s ejected into space, creating
News Neutral Milk Hotel Announce Career-Spanning Vinyl Box Set, Share Previously Unreleased Song: Listen The Collected Works of Neutral Milk Hotel features both of the group’s LPs, along with live recordings, alternate takes, unreleased material, and more By Madison Bloom January 10, 2023 Facebook Twitter Photo courtesy of Neutral Milk Hotel Facebook Twitter Neutral Milk
Here are this week’s games and add-on deals available from the Microsoft Games Store. Discounts are valid now through January 16, 2023 (actual end date varies by sale). Xbox One and Xbox Series X|S Deals Content Title Content Type Discount Notes Marvel’s Midnight Suns Enhanced Edition Xbox Series X|S (Optimized) 33% Last Chance
Play video content CTV UPDATE 3:26 PM PT — Jessica Robb just released a statement about the incident, saying, “On Sunday night, a very personal and vulnerable moment unfolded as I reported live on air. Since then, it has been shared thousands of times, along with baseless theories about the cause.” UPDATE She says, “To
Akela Cooper has made quite a name for herself in the past couple years, first writing the screenplay for Malignant and more recently penning this year’s new box office hit M3GAN. With a sequel to M3GAN already in early development, Cooper reveals to Los Angeles Times that the original incarnation of the film was a
In a major shift one of the nation’s premier arthouses, Karen Cooper will be exiting as director on June 30 after 50 years running the Film Forum in New York City. Deputy Director Sonya Chung will assume the role. Cooper has led the nonprofit cinema since its first iteration in 1972 as a 50-seat loft
Commercial beekeepers in the United States will soon have access to a vaccine that could save their hives from the most devastating disease honeybees face today. The medicine was designed by the biotech company Dalan Animal Health to ward off American foulbrood (AFB), a contagious condition caused by a spore-forming bacterium Paenibacillus larvae. Incorporated into
Running a data center means that you have to find innovative ways to manage heat from the servers. And French startup Qarnot is standardizing its process to reuse fatal heat and turn it into an asset. While the startup has been around for a while, Qarnot now wants to reach the next level. It has
Dr. Dre just went in hard on Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, threatening her with legal action for exploiting his music “to promote your divisive and hateful political agenda.” Dre’s lawyer, Howard King, fired off a letter to Greene, saying “Mr. Young [Dre] has not, and will never, grant you permission to broadcast or disseminate any
With The Last of Us set to launch on HBO this weekend, fans are already drawing influence from the show to create mods for games like The Last of Us Part 2, and one of those mods has turned Ellie into Bella Ramsey. However, Joel’s TV show actor Pedro Pascal is yet to receive the
Marvel Legends Zombie Captain America was a 2021 figure that was one of my surprise favorite Hasbro releases of that year. The level of uncharacteristic goriness in a Marvel Legends 6” toy felt fresh and new, and immediately left me wanting more Marvel Zombies figures. It took a bit over a year, but Cap finally
Paramount+ is trying to bring in younger viewers. The streaming service today announced its new young adult drama series, School Spirits, will premiere with two episodes on Thursday, March 9, exclusively on Paramount+ in the U.S. and Canada. The series will premiere the following day in Australia, and the U.K. Premiere dates for other Paramount+
Audiences continue to be thrilled by Avatar: The Way of Water, as evidenced by its dominating run at the box office. Even with the 2023 new movie releases starting to hit theaters, co-writer/director James Cameron has had a pretty strong hold on all competition since his big sequel’s mid-December debut. Throughout each step of the
Movies aren’t the only place where horror continues to thrive as we begin 2023; all signs point to a banner year for the genre on the small screen in addition to the big screen. On the smaller screen, 2023 brings the return of acclaimed favorites “Yellowjackets,” “The Witcher,” and “Evil,” plus “The Walking Dead” spinoffs, the
All life is made up of cells several magnitudes smaller than a grain of salt. Their seemingly simple-looking structures mask the intricate and complex molecular activity that enables them to carry out the functions that sustain life. Researchers are beginning to be able to visualize this activity to a level of detail they haven’t been
According to a report from Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman, Apple is going to spend most of 2023 focusing on a brand new device — a mixed-reality headset that has been a work in progress for several years. The new device could look like a pair of ski goggles, based on an earlier report from The Information. It
News Dr. Dre Sends Cease and Desist to Marjorie Taylor Greene Over “Still D.R.E.” The controversial Republican congresswoman used the 2001 single in a promotional video. Through his attorney, Dre told Greene, “You are wrongfully exploiting this work through the various social media outlets to promote your divisive and hateful political agenda.” By Matthew Strauss
Jami Attenberg (All This Could Be Yours) looks back on her years as a roaming artist in I Came All This Way to Meet You: Writing Myself Home. Attenberg has lived an uncompromising life as a writer, and she muses about her choices in this forthright memoir. Frequently crossing the country to promote her books,
A new year is upon us, but we still have time to take one final look back at 2022 to visit your Share of the Year moments. Here are this year’s epic highlights: justinphotomode shares Aloy framed by a machine’s wings in Horizon Forbidden West. __Auron__ shares a close up of the cat from Stray,
Edgar Allan Poe is known in the literary world as the imagination behind some of history’s most haunting stories. From “The Pit and the Pendulum” to “The Raven,” Poe’s legacy as one of the great American poets and authors of horror fiction is firmly established. But Poe steps into the spotlight in Scott Cooper’s Netflix
Reading the tea leaves with regard to China in 2023 is even more difficult than usual. The country’s about-face on its longstanding zero-Covid policy has implications from geopolitics to economics and, closer to home for Hollywood, the state of the market after a dismal 2022. Exactly what those implications are is where the guesswork comes
Daniel Porras will be Rogue’s director of space sustainability policy WASHINGTON — Daniel Porras, a former executive at the Secure World Foundation, has joined Rogue Space, a startup developing small satellites for in-orbit services. Porras will be Rogue’s director of space sustainability policy and advocate for standards and best practices from the standpoint of small