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Samsung For the ultimate video game experience, it’s not enough that you invest in gaming PC deals. You’ll also need a topnotch display like the 57-inch Samsung Odyssey Neo G9 dual 4K curved gaming monitor. It’s pretty expensive — but very much worth it — at its original price of $2,500, so you shouldn’t miss this chance to get it with a $700 discount from Samsung, for a more reasonable price of $1,800. It’s still not cheap, but if you can afford it, it will quickly prove to be one of your best gaming purchases.…

If you think of flowers as beautiful, fragrant, decorous and domesticated – something you order from an online florist or pick up at your local garden centre – Chris Thorogood’s Pathless Forest should come with a health warning. It’s a love letter to the largest flowers in the world: the monstrous blooms of the 40-odd species – no one knows quite how many exist, or may have already been driven to extinction – of Rafflesia. This stinking, sprawling “corpse flower” grows in the tropical rainforests of Malaysia, Thailand,…

California auto builder Scarbo Vintage has launched its third vehicle, describing it as the world's first street-legal Hypertruck. The two-seat SV Rover can be had with 1,100-hp supercharged V8 grunt or 1,000-hp electric drive, and is reported to start at a cool US$1.5 million.The company says that the truck – which made its public debut last week at Colorado's FAT International Ice Race – was originally developed as a desert racer for Baja, but has since morphed into a two-seat street-legal beast "capable of not only…

After the star-studded mystery thriller The Number 23 debuted in cinemas in 2007, many people became convinced that they were seeing the eponymous number everywhere. I was in school at that time, and some of my classmates would shudder whenever the number 23 appeared in any context. Other people became fascinated by this form of numerology because as soon as you pay more attention to a certain thing—including a number—you get the feeling that you see it too often to be purely coincidence.For a long time, people assumed…

A modern folk horror tale that draws upon Australia’s troubled history to enhance its monstrous elements, The Moogai also includes an exploration of postpartum depression. Unfortunately, its one-dimensional plot ultimately detracts from the elements that make it an otherwise unique story.Alex Winter on the Most Important Modern Horror Movie It’s rare to see a horror film that centers contemporary Aboriginal characters. The Moogai, which writer-director Jon Bell expanded from his award-winning short, follows Sarah (Shari…

SUBSCRIBE: Apple | Spotify Jeff DelViscio: Hi, Science, Quickly listeners. This is Jeff DelViscio, executive producer of the show. Well, it’s the end of the year, and the whole team is taking a moment to look back at some of our favorite shows from 2023.  My pick has all the elements of perfect podcast–it’s got monsters the size of small airplanes, a discovery hiding (for three decades) in plain site, and the words: “passerine peep show.”  It comes from host Flora Lichtman and it’s also the start of an epic 4-part…

Legendary’s Monsterverse has been steadily persisting since 2014 and saw its first big titanic crossover in the form of 2021's Godzilla vs. Kong. Instead of splitting the titular monsters back off again so they can do their own separate things for a bit, they’re reuniting once more—this time as allies rather than duking it out with one another. “Even AI Rappers are Harassed by Police” | AI UnlockedPicking up sometime after the last movie, Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire sees the pair banding together to fight against a…

Take two girls. Charlie, dark and scowling, is a scrappy preteen whose single mother has no idea how to deal with her extended absences from their shack-like home at the edge of a wood, while Astrid, fair-haired and timidly polite, inhabits a cosy middle-class world of family dinners and indulgent shopping trips (there is never a wrong time for a new dress). They are, in other words, total opposites, and at school Charlie affects hardly to know Astrid, keen to keep up appearances in front of the boys who bully them both.…

Fans of giant monsters who also happen to have a spare $3,499 will be able to watch an upcoming Apple TV Plus show on their Vision Pro headset in a brand-new format, we're told.The show, dubbed Monarch: Legacy of Monsters, was first announced back in January of 2022 but there was obviously no mention of the Vision Pro back then. Now, following the headset's announcement during the WWDC event last week, we're told that the TV show is already being filmed with Spatial Video support.This means that the new Apple TV Plus…

There’s no denying the fact that the Kia Seltos is one of the most in-demand and dynamic midsize SUVs right now. The sportier and contemporary styling of the Kia Seltos is backed by a fantastic set of engine options, which make it equally dynamic behind the steering wheel. However, for those who are wanting more, here’s a sportier-looking Kia Seltos imagined with a Dodge’s 6.4-litre Hemi V8 engine. A digital rendering uploaded by “Bimble Designs” on Instagram shows a heavily-restyled Kia Seltos with several restyled…