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Christopher Nolan’s Daughter Has A Horrifying Cameo In ‘Oppenheimer’

Christopher Nolan‘s Oppenheimer is getting all the praise it deserves for the brilliant choice of cast led by Cillian Murphy. However, Nolan has just revealed that the sweeping historical epic will also feature his daughter, Flora Nolan. Oppenheimer will tell the complete life story of J. Robert Oppenheimer, the father of the atomic bomb, and subsequently chronicle the consequences of his actions. In an interview with The Telegraph, Nolan recently revealed that his eldest child, Flora Nolan, will also make a small…

Beware the Horrifying Double Whammy That Inflates Gastric Cancer Risk by 45%

The risk of gastric cancer is significantly amplified by the presence of both a specific stomach microbe, H. pylori, and rare variants in nine genes, according to a study by RIKEN researchers. This research suggests the potential for targeted antibiotic treatments to reduce risk in genetically susceptible individuals.Working in tandem, a stomach microbe and rare variants found in nine genes greatly increase the risk of gastric cancer over a lifetime.Genetics has a greater influence in the development of gastric cancer—the…

Hiltzik: The horrifying toll of Sweden’s lax pandemic policy

Throughout much of the pandemic, Sweden has stood out for its ostensibly successful effort to beat COVID-19 while avoiding the harsh lockdowns and social distancing rules imposed on residents of other developed nations.Swedish residents were able to enjoy themselves at bars and restaurants, their schools remained open, and somehow their economy thrived and they remained healthy. So say their fans, especially on the anti-lockdown right.A new study by European scientific researchers buries all those claims in the ground.…

James Cameron imagines ‘horrifying’ death for Titan sub passengers

James Cameron, the director of 1997’s “Titanic,” is probably accustomed to thinking of events in narrative, cinematic terms, so it shouldn’t come as a surprise that he would apply his expertise in both filmmaking and deep-sea exploration to vividly describe what could have happened to the doomed Titan submersible and its five passengers. In a series of interviews with media outlets Thursday, Cameron expressed sadness over the similarities between the Titanic disaster in 1912 and the Titan submersible, which imploded in…

Horrifying paedophile networks exposed on Instagram; slammed for role, app slaps ban on users

Social media platforms are microcosms of society. You have all the interesting and fun communities, but also some terribly dark and heinous places. Now, Instagram has been exposed by a report that claimed the app's algorithms actually helped connect paedophile networks. A report has highlighted that vast networks of paedophiles have been operating openly on the platform and its algorithm is playing a role in connecting those who seek child pornography with those who supply them.The report is based on an investigation by…

CHAINGED strings together haunted games in a horrifying anthology

Games have CHAINGED Anthology games are not my thing. I just can’t get into DreadX titles and prefer to take my short-form narrative experiences à la carte. The concept itself, however, is rad as hell, which is demonstrated by CHAINGED. The overarching idea is that a buttload of developers all contributed short experiences that make up a choose-your-own-adventure. It’s like Give Yourself Goosebumps books, except sometimes it’s a disturbing version of animal crossing. CHAINGED was organized by Andrew Pype and consists of…

Will The Little Mermaid be the most horrifying film since Cats? | Walt Disney Company

Years and years of bitter experience has taught us not to expect too much from Disney’s live-action remakes of its old animated features. Since Kenneth Branagh’s Cinderella limply beat us all around the head almost a decade ago, we’ve been treated to a litany of disappointing slop. Tim Burton’s Dumbo fused boneheaded storytelling with genuinely nightmarish character design. Jon Favreau’s The Lion King stripped all its characters of personality in favour of dreary photorealistic animation. Guy Ritchie’s Aladdin was Guy…

Top 10 Horrifying Problems that Can Happen with Existing-Generation AI

This article enlisted the top 10 horrifying problems that can happen with existing generation AI Intro A year ago, AI chatbots and AI image generators could not produce coherent sentences. Today, AI can write entire articles. Microsoft has already incorporated a version of OpenAI’s GPT-4 into Bing, and Google is easing into the launch of a competitor known as Bard. The incredible potential of these new technologies is to change our lives in ways that science fiction could only dream of. According to our experience, when…

10 Horror Movies About Horrifying Pregnancies

Prometheus - Official Full HD Trailer - Ridley Scott, Michael Fassbender, Noomi RapaceIn Ridley Scott’s 2012 Alien franchise entry, a scientist (Noomi Rapace) who believes she’s infertile has sex with her partner after the mission’s android slips him a drink tainted by space goo left behind by an alien planet’s race of long-gone humanoid Engineers. Don’t worry about those details; just worry about how the scientist finds herself suddenly pregnant with a decidedly non-human baby, and must perform an emergency c-section on…

Horrifying solar storm sparked Geomagnetic storm! Red streak seen over Danish skies

A menacing cloud of coronal mass ejection, erupting from a sunspot that was 20 times wider than Earth, struck our planet on March 23 and unleashed a horrifying solar storm that caught everyone off guard. Exploiting cracks in Earth's magnetic field due to the vernal equinox, this horrifying solar storm resulted in a very dangerous G4 Geomagnetic storm which caused radio communication shutdowns, GPS malfunctions, auroras and even a rare phenomenon known as STEVE. Experts later revealed that this geomagnetic storm was the…