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Rare Harry Potter Prequel Stolen, J.K. Rowling Pleads for Return
A one-of-a-kind Harry Potter prequel has been stolen, and author J.K. Rowling is eager to get it back in the right hands.
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A Potential Glimpse at the Ships of the Han Solo Movie
Yet another Once Upon a Time star will not return for season seven. Some deep-sea villains could play a part in Aquaman. Stephen King and J.J. Abrams’ new horror collaboration has found its star. Plus, a gross new clip from Alien: Covenant, more tiny Defenders teasers, and Shannara Chronicles has a new home. Spoilers…
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Watch NASA's Glorious 200th ISS Space Walk Live
Two hundred tangos in space and counting: today, NASA astronauts Peggy Whitson and Jack Fischer are performing the 200th American spacewalk outside the International Space Station (ISS). NASA is streaming the entire four hour endeavor on its channel here.
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The Body Is Not a Computer—Stop Thinking of It as One
When former DARPA chief Regina Dugan announced on stage last month that Facebook planned to build a brain computer interface to allow users to send their thoughts directly to the social network without a keyboard intermediary, it had all the Silicon Valley swagger of Facebook circa “move fast and break things.” With…
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Amazon's Gold Box Is Full Of Your Favorite Anker Audio Gear
Anker’s reader-favorite audio products don’t get nearly as many discounts as their iconic USB charging gear, but that changes with today’s Amazon Gold Box.
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How To Cosplay Baby Groot
If you needed any ideas for a Guardians of the Galaxy cosplay, you can always dress as Baby Groot.
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Impressive Scifi Short Is About a (Maybe) Alien Who Just Wants To Go Home
A new scifi short is all about a woman who doesn’t feel like she belongs... probably because she’s actually an alien. So, she sets on a quest to get home, though not without her trusty teddy bear.
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Agents of SHIELD and Once Upon a Time Are Both Coming Back Next Season, But Powerless Isn't
Two popular genre shows with unclear futures just got some good news. A third did not.
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Ghostbusters Has Been Turned Into Shakespeare
When something is well-written, it’s not uncommon to hear someone refer to it as “Shakespeare.” For example, hypothetically, someone might say, “The script for Ghostbusters was so good, it’s like Shakespeare.” But what if Ghostbusters actually was written by Shakespeare?
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The Disney Channel's New Musical Is a Teen Romance That Happens To Include Zombies
Remember when zombies were scary? No? You’re not alone. Zombies have become so incredibly normal and mainstream that now they’re getting their own Disney Channel TV movie musical.
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Report: After a Year of Rumors, Maisie Williams and Anya Taylor-Joy Finally Join New Mutants
The New Mutants cast is coming together. Well, more specifically, the cast members first rumored over a year ago by HitFix—Game of Thrones’ Maisie Williams and The Witch’s Anya Taylor-Joy—have finally reportedly signed on to play key members of the young X-Team.
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MST3K Robots Pitch New Shows to Netflix, Like Fuller House but With Piles of Bodies
We are smack dab in the middle of TV pick-up season, what with Syfy’s just-announced round of shows and Fox’s The Gifted getting its first teaser trailer, so it’s only natural that Crow T. Robot and Tom Servo from Netflix’s MST3K reboot would want to get in on the action. Only, most of their shows seem to involve…
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The Newest Twin Peaks Trailer Offers Tantalizing Glimpses of Faces and Places Old and New
May 21 is rapidly approaching, and while some things will certainly have changed in the spooky realm of Twin Peaks—including some new characters we’re seeing here for the first time—there are also some frozen-in-time moments, too. There’s Lucy, still holding down the desk at the sheriff’s department, and Shelley,…
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Five Episodes of The Twilight Zone That Are Only Slightly More Horrifying Than Our Current Reality
Donald Trump is president of the United States. Britain has left the European Union. Captain America is the new fascist supreme leader of Hydra. Unfortunately, this isn’t the Twilight Zone, a place where I’d much rather be right now.
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American Gods Will Return for a Second Season
Surprise! But not really, given the ecstatic response to Bryan Fuller’s Neil Gaiman adaptation already, but excellent news nonetheless. Praise Media, because American Gods is getting a second season.
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The New Star Wars Crossover Comic Is Heading to Some Weird Places
Marvel’s Star Wars and Dr. Aphra comics kicked off a new crossover event this week, Screaming Citadel, and it’s a realization of something the comics have been doing for a while, quite unlike any other aspect of Lucasfilm’s new Star Wars comic: it’s digging into some really weird corners of the galaxy far, far away.
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The Kingkiller Chronicle's Kvothe Has Never Looked Better Than in These Beautiful Illustrations
I suspect the chances of your owning a copy of Patrick J. Rothfuss’ The Name of the Wind are high. The author’s debut novel, which launched The Kingkiller Chronicle trilogy, stunned pretty much everyone when it was released in 2007, becoming one of the biggest fantasy book series of all time. So when I tell you you’re…
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Superman's Mom Hates to Be Honest, But Justice League Is Worse Than Avengers [Updated]
Looks like Superman’s mom doesn’t think he’s the most special boy in all the world, or at least shes’s not that impressed with his superpowered friends. When asked whether the Justice League movie will blow Marvel’s The Avengers out of the water, Diana Lane simply said: “No.”
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Syfy's Plan to Save Itself: Harry Potter, Comic Books, and George R.R. Martin
For years now—since around the time the channel purposefully misspelled its name from Sci Fi to Syfy—the former home of science fiction on television has been something of a joke. And now the channel and its owners at NBC think they can save it.
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Ridley Scott Admits Fan Backlash Over Prometheus Influenced Alien: Covenant
With Alien: Covenant coming out next week, lots of people have been discussing or revisiting the film that came before it: Prometheus. That even includes the director of both films, Ridley Scott, who admitted fan reaction to Prometheus influenced Covenant.
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