The popular New York Times column “Modern Love” is coming to Amazon. The streamer greenlit an anthology series based on the viral essays from New York Times contributors according to Deadline. The first season will consist of eight standalone episodes, all taking place over the course of one day. Each episode will highlight a different
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Farmhand is one of the more conceptually macabre printed offerings from Image Comics, the company that famously published (note the past tense,) The Walking Dead. Pertinently, it appears that the comic series, the brainchild of writer/artist Rob Guillory, is set to become the next Image-adapted series to manifest as a television show on cable network
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This Killjoys review contains spoilers. Killjoys Season 5 Episode 2 “Move now; bitch later.” After a season premiere that leaves viewers still a bit confused as to the intricacies of The Lady’s master plan, “Blame it on the Rain” brings the alien entity’s agenda more clearly into focus. Pacing has never been an issue for
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Margaret Atwood, how quickly can you get rolling on some more Handmaid’s Tale sequels? Hulu has announced that it is has ordered The Handmaid’s Tale season 4, bringing it even further beyond Atwood’s original source material. Three seasons beyond to be exact. “Hulu is taking big swings on bold and brand-defining stories that reflect the
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Josh Schwartz and Stephanie Savage, the duo behind Gossip Girl and Marvel’s Runaways, are adapting another story for Hulu’s streaming platform: John Green’s Looking For Alaska. The adaptation will be an eight-episode limited series. The series will star Charlie Plummer as Miles “Pudge” Halter, a teen who has just enrolled at Culver Creek Prep, hoping
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Layers of Fear developer Bloober Team is working on a game based on horror franchise Blair Witch. The new survival horror title will see you play as a man looking for a boy who’s gone missing in the Black Hills Forest in Maryland. And like in the movies, it looks like you’ll be pretty defenseless
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Halloween falls every week in Ghostober, Travel Channel’s month-long celebration of all things spooky. Shane Pittman, Dave Schrader and clairvoyant, clairaudient and clairsentient intuitive Cindy Kaza will resurrect the cases of America’s first ghost hunter on the new series The Holzer Files. Holzer is recognized as the “father of the paranormal.” His works inspired Dan
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Mainstream superhero storytelling tends to do better when depicting physical powers than emotional/mental ones, which is one of the many reasons why the premise of Lauren Shippen’s upcoming young adult novel, The Infinite Noise, so intrigues me… Based on Shippen’s award-winning podcast, The Bright Sessions, The Infinite Noise follows 16-year-old running back Caleb Michaels who has the
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Looking for a new laptop? You’re in luck! Den of Geek is teaming up with friends from Captain Robot,The Science of Success, Classic Nerd Stuff, and Voicebrew to give away a chance to own one of the hottest computing and gaming products currently on the market. Starting at $1,000, the OMEN Laptop has received rave reviews for its fantastic
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Travel Channel finds an excuse to celebrate Halloween every day in October. They have reason, last year they hit ratings highs 31 days of “wicked and blood-curdling debuts.” Their second annual Ghostbust programming event will feature frightening premieres ever night. “Ghostober” kicks off on the first of the month when Travel Channel sends a crew
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The first in a planned trilogy, Dragonslayer is the story of Guillot, a dragonslayer in a seemingly now-dragonless world. Once a great swordfighter, following the death of his wife five years prior and feeling purposeless without, Gill has struggled with alcohol abuse and a purpose-less life. When a dragon—a species formerly thought extinct, begins terrorizing nearby
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IMAGE: Russian-Chinese scientific cooperation: a new generation of sensors for the ‘smart’ city. view more  Credit: Peter the Great St.Petersburg Polytechnic University Russian and Chinese scientists to create prototype sensors for electronics of the latest generation. Researchers of Peter the Great St. Petersburg Polytechnic University (SPbPU) in collaboration with the Physics and Technology Department of the
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Fifth weeks are odd beasts in the comics world. They throw off the natural rhythm of comic publishing, with one book every two or four weeks, and end up stacking some months ane leaving others barren. Fortunately, comic companies have found fun and creative ways to deal with them. Like having Bill Sienkiewicz ink a
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Doom Eternal is the newest installment in the hit first-person shooter series. The sequel to the 2016 reboot is everything you loved about its predecessor with a few added tweaks, including a few new demons to turn into gruesome meaty chunks!  Here’s everything we know about the game thus far: Doom Eternal Release Date Doom
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IMAGE: McMaster engineers specializing in infectious diseases have created a bacteria-killing gel composed entirely of friendly viruses. The gel can heal itself when cut. view more  Credit: JD Howell, McMaster University HAMILTON, ON July 25, 2019 – McMaster researchers have developed a novel new gel made entirely from bacteria-killing viruses. The anti-bacterial gel, which can be
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TNT is about to become elite. All Elite Wrestling, the new wrestling promotion started by Cody Rhodes, The Young Bucks, and Tony Khan, announced in May that they have come to terms with WarnerMedia to air a weekly wrestling show in prime time on TNT beginning later this year. AEW’s debut on TNT will mark
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Coming from a family of assassins, Amastan has to grapple with the reality of killing someone. In The Perfect Assassin, K.A. Doore explores this in a fantasy novel set in an inhospitable landscape. She talked to Den of Geek about desert world-building, writing LGBT characters in a fantasy world without prejudice, and drawing inspiration from
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QuakeCon is the year’s biggest celebration of all things Bethesda. The convention features panels, game reveals, and esports tournaments set in the worlds of Quake, Doom, Elder Scrolls, and more.  Unsurprisingly, QuakeCon 2019’s big focus is Doom Eternal, which is due out this fall. Bethesda has promised to reveal some new gameplay from the first-person
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IMAGE: An artist’s illustration of microrobots inside the gut. view more  Credit: Caltech Targeting medical treatment to an ailing body part is a practice as old as medicine itself. A Band-Aid is placed on a skinned knee. Drops go into itchy eyes. A broken arm goes into a cast. But often what ails us is inside
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Scientists have created the first completely artificial protein switch that can work inside living cells to modify–or even commandeer–the cell’s complex internal circuitry. The switch is dubbed LOCKR, short for Latching, Orthogonal Cage/Key pRotein. Companion papers published July 24 in the journal Nature describe LOCKR’s design and demonstrate several practical applications of the technology. The
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The future of faster, more efficient information processing may come down to light rather than electricity. Mark Lawrence, a postdoctoral scholar in materials science and engineering at Stanford, has moved a step closer to this future with a scheme to make a photon diode – a device that allows light to only flow in one
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IMAGE: A wearable artificial graphene throat, abbreviated here as ‘WAGT,’ can transform human throat movements into different sounds with training of the wearer. view more  Credit: Adapted from ACS Nano 2019, 10.1021/acsnano.9b03218 Most people take speech for granted, but it’s actually a complex process that involves both motions of the mouth and vibrations of folded tissues,
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This The 100 review contains spoilers. The 100 Season 6 Episode 11 Allegiances are all over the map in this episode in a wonderfully dizzying kind of way. Russell sizes up Murphy correctly – little does he know, Murphy just recently had a serious come to Jesus moment and will be Ride or Die for his people
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