AMC has greenlit a third Walking Dead series that is set to begin production this summer in Virginia. The new, untitled series, which will have a 10-episode first season, will air in 2020.  The series was co-created by Walking Dead chief content officer Scott M. Gimple and longtime TWD writer Matt Negrete, who will also
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Talk about putting the cart before the horse. A week after news leaked of Aya Cash joining the cast of The Boys Season 2, The Boys season 2 now actually exists. Variety confirmed the news prior to The Boys panel at SDCC 2019.  The Boys will unleash an unapologetically ultraviolent response to the entertainment industry’s
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Netflix screened some impressive footage at its The Witcher panel during San Diego Comic Con, showcasing the three main character who will star in this fantasy element adapted from the Polish book series by Andrzej Sapkowski which was previously adapted into a wildly popular video game series. The books and game follow Geralt (Henry Cavill), a
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IMAGE: The initial positions of the atoms in this computer model of a solid-oxide fuel cell were based on observations of the actual atomic configuration using electron microscopy. Simulations using this… view more  Credit: Michihisa Koyama, Kyushu University Simulations from researchers in Japan provide new insights into the reactions occurring in solid-oxide fuel cells by using
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IMAGE: A heated tip of a scanning tunneling microscope (STM) is brought close to a cold substrate so that a single molecule can bridge the gap between them. view more  Credit: Jan C. Kloeckner Combining novel theoretical and experimental approaches, researchers from the University of Michigan (USA), Kookmin University (South Korea), the University of Konstanz (Germany)
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After several years of theorizing and experimenting, an international team of researchers including scientists at Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology Graduate University (OIST) has finally succeeded in measuring how heat passes between two gold electrodes through a single molecule. They report their findings in Nature on July 17, 2019. Around 2000, scientists first measured
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Reno Jackson, one of Hearthstone‘s most popular cards/characters ever, return in the game’s upcoming Saviors of Uldum expansion.  As revealed at SDCC 2019, Reno Jackson will be a Mage legendary card that cost six mana, has four attack, six health, and a Battlecry effect that reads “If your deck has no duplicates, deal 10 damage randomly
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It makes sense to chase what has been proven to work before and if The CW has learned anything in the last decade, it’s that Winchesters are forever (or at least 15 years), superheroes pay, and everyone loves Riverdale. It’s that last lesson that feels like a particular motivating factor in one of the network’s
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This year marks 20 years since Batman Beyond first showed up on television, and to celebrate, the cast of the beloved series revealed at SDCC 2019 that the show is getting a Blu-ray remastered re-release. Bruce Timm, Andrea Romano, Best Batman Kevin Conroy, and Best Spider-Man Will Friedle made the announcement during the show’s 20th-anniversary panel
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IMAGE: A micro-bristle-bot is shown next to a US penny for size comparison. view more  Credit: Allison Carter, Georgia Tech Researchers have created a new type of tiny 3D-printed robot that moves by harnessing vibration from piezoelectric actuators, ultrasound sources or even tiny speakers. Swarms of these “micro-bristle-bots” might work together to sense environmental changes, move
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Expect to hear big things about Marvel’s Eternals movie very, very soon. Eternals is coming to the big screen as part of Marvel Phase 4, and the cast reportedly includes Richard Madden, Angelina Jolie, Salma Hayek, Kumail Nanjiani, and more. Marvel’s Eternals aren’t exactly household names yet, but then again, neither was Guardians of the
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The Simpsons, the lovable, loathable, yellow-skinned, eight-fingered nuclear family who dominate my Sunday nights, paid another two years on their Evergreen Terrace property mortage. Lisa went radical in recent seasons, Bart’s always been radical and Homer still forgets to check the safety gauges on the radicals at the nuclear plant. The family has grown and
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Release Date: July 11, 2019Platforms: PC (reviewed), PS4, XBO, SwitchDeveloper: JoyMasherPublisher: The Arcade CrewGenre: Run and gun They just don’t make games like Blazing Chrome anymore, and that’s really too bad because it’s a fun and challenging run and gun shooter with tight controls that might fool you into thinking it’s from the early ’90s era when Contra was still
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Researchers at the U.S. Department of Energy’s Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) have developed a graphene device that’s thinner than a human hair but has a depth of special traits. It easily switches from a superconducting material that conducts electricity without losing any energy, to an insulator that resists the flow of electric current,
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Every year, robots get more and more life-like. Solar-powered bees fly on lithe wings, humanoids stick backflips, and teams of soccer bots strategize how to dribble, pass, and score. And, the more researchers discover about how living creatures move, the more machines can imitate them all the way down to their smallest molecules. “We have
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IMAGE: Jas Sanghera, U.S. Naval Research Laboratory branch head for Optical Materials and Devices, holds up optical fiber that will be used to produce eye safer lasers at U.S. NRL, DC… view more  Credit: Jonathan Steffen/U.S. Naval Research Laboratory WASHINGTON — Scientists at the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory have devised a new process for using nano-particles
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IMAGE: (a−c) AFM images before (a) and after (b) KPFS manipulation of Oad2−−Oad2− with the tip positioned symmetrically in the middle and the corresponding line profiles (c). The double bright spot… view more  Credit: Osaka University Osaka, Japan – While pinning down a single oxygen atom sounds difficult, trying to then manipulate electrons associated with that
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Stargirl is coming to the DC Universe streaming service. The Stargirl TV show will join live-action series Titans, Doom Patrol, Swamp Thing, Metropolis, and animated series Harley Quinn and Young Justice: Outsiders. Greg Berlanti, Geoff Johns, and Sarah Schechter serve as executive producers, and Johns himself will write the first episode. The series will follow the character created by Geoff Johns
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Some pretty big news dropped to kick off San Diego Comic Con week this year: IDW and Rob Liefeld announced that the legendary creator is coming on board for a Snake Eyes focused comic in 2020. “Two words: ‘BUCKET LIST,’” said Liefeld, “One more word: ‘ICON.’ Snake Eyes is Wolverine, Deadpool, and Spider-Man rolled into
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The best PC games of 2019 reveal the changing nature of PC gaming and the gaming industry as a whole. The lines between platforms are becoming blurred. Microsoft is embracing PC gaming once again as it aims to bring Xbox to the masses, Japan making more PC ports than ever before, and even Nintendo adopting more
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Three UC Santa Barbara junior faculty members have been awarded the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE). Spencer Smith, in electrical and computer engineering, Phillip Christopher, in chemical engineering, and Andrea Young in physics join more than 300 others across the country in receiving the award. The PECASE is the highest honor
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Hulu has had a busy couple of months. First came June and The Handmaid’s Tale. Then came July and Veronica Mars. Now, for its new releases in August 2019, Hulu is going to…chill. Yes, it’s a pretty chill slate for Hulu in August. Aside from the usual Into the Dark installment and a couple of
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