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Horror producer, director, and screenwriter James Wan is no stranger to incorporating killer dolls in his movies. When you look back at every James Wan movie, his breakthrough movie Saw had a creepy tuxedoed doll deliver messages to Jigsaw's victims, there was a ventriloquist dummy in Dead Silence, and a cursed doll brought to you by The Conjuring movies. With Wan's newest movie being M3GAN with the central figure being a killer doll once again, this Australian filmmaker talks about why he’s so obsessed with killer…

When Douglas Adams’s U.S. publisher asked him to substitute something less offensive for the f-word in in his novel  Life, the Universe, and Everything (one of the sequels to The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy), Adams made a cheeky decision to swap in the name of an entire country with a reputation for maintaining a diplomatic middle ground. A new linguistic analysis suggests that the choice Adams made—substituting in the word “Belgium” at every instance—may unconsciously have reflected a cross-language pattern of using…

Apple made iOS 16 available to developers earlier this month and we're still learning things about it. One of those things is built-in unit conversion including temperature, currency, distance, and more. If you're someone who lives in a different timezone, or a Brit tired of explaining to Americans why 30°C is too hot because they need it in Fahrenheit, iOS 16 has your back. As MacStories editor-in-chief Federico Viticci shared to Twitter, those with iOS 16 installed later this year will be able to instantly convert…

No one can deny the fact that other than Apple, only Samsung does a proper job of keeping its mobile devices up-to-date. In fact, Samsung can even be considered the best in this field considering the number of devices it launches, even if the maximum number of OS upgrades its devices can currently receive is four. Apart from the big Android OS and One UI upgrades, Samsung also releases monthly updates for many, many Galaxy phones and tablets, both to bring new security fixes regularly and, in the case of recently…

Far and wide around the world, a whole bunch of animals are yawning right now. Maybe they're ready to sleep; maybe it's because they're hot and bored.But if one thing is certain, the very thought of yawning makes us want to open our mouths and take a deep breath for some reason. (I've already stifled several yawns, and I'm barely a paragraph in.)  While scientists are reasonably confident they understand the physiological purpose of yawning, the reasons it's so contagious among social animals is still unclear.As is often…