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Red Rose, a British teen horror drama series created by Paul and Michael Clarkson, has now made its way to Netflix in the United States. Set in the town of Bolton near Manchester, Red Rose follows a group of school leavers terrorized by an evil app that demands deadly outcomes from its users. Using smartphones as the primary vessel for scares, the series explores serious themes of grief, death, class, family, friendship, and early adulthood, all while highlighting the dangers of being constantly connected. Tech-horror, a…

This horror-flecked backwoods Pennsylvanian fable should serve as a useful calling card for writer-directors Kevin Ignatius and Nick Psinakis, who summon up an ambience so oppressive, it’s as if the film is being beamed straight out of the deep, reptilian brain. The atmospherics and the plot’s occultish trimmings feel somewhat indebted to Panos Cosmatos’s 2018 film Mandy but this is an undeniably sharp technical exercise, in spite of its obvious shoestring budget.A nerve-jangling prologue sees dark-haired siblings Henry…

Today's NASA Astronomy Picture of the Day took a chilling snap of the well-known 7 Dusty Sisters. It is also called the Pleiades star cluster, known for its iconic blue stars. However, the image is in infrared light where the surrounding dust outshines the stars. NASA has revealed that the featured image spans around 20 light-years at the distance of the Pleiades, which lies about 450 light-years distant from the constellation of the Bull (Taurus).While sharing the image, NASA explained that “Here three infrared colours…

A harrowing journey to the end of the world I never get tired of a good narrative game, so when I see a trailer that looks good enough to grab my attention, I can’t help but get excited about a potential new story-driven gem. That’s absolutely the case when it comes to The Pale Beyond, a narrative polar exploration game that’s set to release on February 24, 2023. The title was originally announced back in November of 2021, and its story will follow the crew of a vessel named The Temperance, who have set out on an…

Cold People is Tom Rob Smith’s fifth novel, but in the years since his bestselling debut, Child 44, he has also developed a parallel award-winning career as a screenwriter, and the influence of a more visual form is subtly felt throughout this cinematic speculative fiction about the future of humanity.The premise is classic disaster movie territory, almost to the point of cliche: an alien invasion threatens to wipe humanity from the face of the Earth. The planet’s population is given 30 days to relocate to Antarctica,…

It was August 13, 1945, and the 'demon core' was poised, waiting to be unleashed onto a stunned Japan still reeling in fresh chaos from the deadliest attacks anyone had ever seen.A week earlier, 'Little Boy' had detonated over Hiroshima, followed swiftly by 'Fat Man' in Nagasaki.These were the first and only nuclear bombs ever used in warfare, claiming as many as 200,000 lives – and if things had turned out a little differently, a third deadly strike would have followed in their hellish wake.But history had other…

A scholar’s daring bid to become CEO of Twitter, requests Elon Musk’s support! Read more tech news Good morning tech fam, here are some quick tech updates for you to catch on to! What’s New Today: A Microsoft employee unintentionally announced that the Notepad app in Windows 11 will be receiving tabs in the fresh version of Notepad. Fast-Track Insights: Winter storm in the US causes a decline in bitcoin mining hash rate. For US bitcoin miners, the recent winter storm has created a unique set of challenges. Shiva…

Cienpies Design/ShutterstockThe holidays are hurtling toward us and we just can't wait.more Technically Incorrect A little peace, a little joy, and a little jolt for our inner romantic associations with fragrant trees, gift-giving, and strained family harmony.Naturally, big brands want to lurk over your positive feelings, wrapping their tentacles around your every impulse.How do they do it? By releasing a holiday ad that makes you feel good all over. Or, perhaps, doesn't.I can't help involuntarily groaning and…

Survey shows that schools are having a harder time trying to teach about the historical context that helped foment these demonstrations. Credit: Nathan Dumlao/Unsplash Researchers at UCLA and UC Riverside today released a nationally representative survey of 682 high school principals, making clear that political conflicts impacting schools are pervasive and growing, with more than two-thirds of principals surveyed reporting…

Most species are transitory. They go extinct, branch into new species or change over time due to random mutations and environmental shifts. A typical mammalian species can be expected to exist for a million years.Modern humans, Homo sapiens, have been around for roughly 300,000 years. So what will happen if we make it to a million years?Science fiction author H.G. Wells was the first to realise that humans could evolve into something very alien.In his 1883 essay, Man in the year million, he envisioned what's now become a…