NASA Reveals Epic Pumpkin-Carving Contest Creations for Halloween

NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory held its cool pumpkin-carving contest on Oct. 30. (Photo Credit: NASA / JPL-Caltech) NASA engineers recently competed in the annual NASA-JPL pumpkin-carving contest and their creations were out of this world. The contest, which is held each year around Halloween, is not your typical gourd fest. Over the years, pumpkins have been turned into anything from underwater creatures to flying saucers. This year, the “Apollo...

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Police Discover Meth Worth Over $200 Million Hidden in Sriracha Bottles

Check the cupboards at my house at any given time and you’ll probably find a couple bottles of Sriracha. Its signature spiciness works well with all kinds of different dishes. You can put Sriracha on just about anything. Apparently some people think that Sriracha’s usefulness doesn’t end with adding a little zing to food. Some thought, for example, that it’s a good way to smuggle drugs. Those people thought wrong, as it turns out. Police in New...

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Lego Candy Bar Dispenser Is Equal Parts Trick and Treat

credit: Jason Allemann It’s Halloween night, and that means kids everywhere will be heading out to trick-or-treat. Most of those treats will be handed over or plucked from a bowl, but not at the house of one highly-skilled Lego builder. That’s because Jason Allemann decided to create the amazing contraption you see here. It’s a Halloween vending machine! All a trick-or-treater has to do is tap one of the buttons on the base and the machine springs...

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Hands On: ‘Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order’ Shows Respawn Knows Single Player

The expectations thrust onto Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order are absolutely unfair. It’s EA’s first big Star Wars game since the disastrous and borderline illegal Battlefront II. It’s Respawn’s first single-player campaign since the masterful Titanfall 2 and the team’s other project for this year after the smash hit Apex Legends. And alongside The Rise of Skywalker in theaters and The Mandalorian on Disney+, it comes at a time when perhaps...

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Emilia Clarke Reveals ‘Game of Thrones’ Coffee Cup Culprit

Emilia Clarke revealed the 'Game of Thrones' coffee cup culprit on 'The Tonight Show.' (Photo Credit: The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon / YouTube) Remember that infamous coffee cup that annoyed Game of Thrones fans? Emilia Clarke finally revealed who may have left their drink in a Season 8 scene…and it was not the Mother of Dragons. Clarke addressed the controversy on The Tonight Show and jokingly explained how she wasn’t happy...

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Facebook sues OnlineNIC for domain name fraud associated with malicious activity

Facebook today announced it has filed suit in California against a domain registrar OnlineNIC and its proxy service ID Shield for registering domain names that pretend to be associated with Facebook, like www-facebook-login.com or facebook-mails.com, for example. Facebook says these domains are intentionally designed to mislead and confuse end users, who believe they’re interacting with Facebook. These fake domains are also often associated with...

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Daily Crunch: Twitter is banning political ads

The Daily Crunch is TechCrunch’s roundup of our biggest and most important stories. If you’d like to get this delivered to your inbox every day at around 9am Pacific, you can subscribe here. 1. Jack Dorsey says Twitter will ban all political ads Arguing that “internet political ads present entirely new challenges to civic discourse,” CEO Jack Dorsey announced that Twitter will be banning all political advertising — albeit with “a few exceptions”...

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Henry Cavill Hunts Eerie Monsters in Netflix’s ‘The Witcher’ Trailer

'The Witcher' is coming to Netflix on Dec. 20. (Photo Credit: Netflix) A mutant created by magic rises in Netflix’s new fantasy series The Witcher. Netflix gave fans a brief preview of the series, which stars Justice League’s Henry Cavill, in a thrilling trailer on Thursday. Based on the popular book series and video game of the same name, The Witcher follows Geralt of Rivia, a genetically-modified man who has supernatural powers...

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NASA’s Spitzer Space Telescope Spots ‘Ghoulish Gourd’ in Space

An infrared image from NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope shows a blazing "Jack-o'-lantern Nebula." (Photo Credit: NASA / JPL - Caltech) Halloween is here and NASA’s Spitzer Space Telescope observed a strange “cosmic pumpkin” in the Milky Way galaxy. A giant star, which is roughly 15 to 20 times heavier than the sun and known as an O-type star, could be to blame for this celestial jack-o’-lantern. Findings from a study published in the Astrophysical...

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The Scariest Part: Drinking the Ti West Kool-Aid in ‘The Sacrament’

'The Sacrament' (Photo Credit: Magnet Releasing) Horror is fun. Even when it is pretty scary, it is fun. The physiological response our bodies have when exposed to fright is a trip and if experiencing that doesn’t scare you away from the genre at large, odds are that even when you’re hiding your eyes behind your hands, you’re having a good time. It’s a beautiful alchemy and when you think about it, it’s kind of amazing that horror filmmakers pull...

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DeepMind’s AlphaStar AI Crushes Pro ‘StarCraft’ Players

DeepMind engineers developed an AI to beat StarCraft pros (via DeepMind) There’s no stopping Google’s DeepMind AI. Earlier this year the artificial intelligence platform recently shut out two professional StarCraft players in a 5-0 defeat. And now a report on The Verge says DeepMind is better than 99.8 of all human players. That last 0.2 percent will be our last hope against the war tactics of the AI uprising. In the meantime, we bet Blizzard would...

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‘Nancy Drew’ Season 1 Episode 4 Recap: The Most Awkward Funeral

Kennedy McMann as Nancy and Tunji Kasim as Nick -- Photo: Dean Buscher/The CW Who needs a Halloween episode when spooky is Nancy Drew’s whole aesthetic? There’s a new suspect in the Tiffany Hudson murder and she’s sleeping over at Nancy Drew’s house. Nancy now knows Bess was lying about living with her aunt, likely lying about being a wealthy socialite, and has Tiffany’s diamond ring for some reason. It’s not looking good. That’s not even...

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‘Riverdale’ Season 4 Episode 4 Recap: Creepshow

Camila Mendes as Veronica, KJ Apa as Archie and Eli Goree as Munroe -- Photo: Jack Rowand/The CW The special Halloween episode of Riverdale opens with the biggest twist in the show’s history: Bette still has a VCR in her house. Not only that, so does everyone else in Riverdale. And they all were sent creepy videos of the outside of their houses. Veronica watches hers hooked up to a modern HDTV. And the stalker was kind enough to find a VHS...

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21 Tiny Reviews of 21 Big Apple Arcade Games

Apple Arcade has been around for a little over a month now, just enough time to fully get used to a world where there are once again tons of cool mobile games to play that don’t try to constantly scam you with free-to-play monetization. It’s almost too good to be true. Between the sheer number of intriguing games and ease of dabbling all over the place with the subscription model, I’ve played a bunch of Apple Arcade games on the shiny new iPhone...

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Twitter banning political ads is the right thing to do, so it will be attacked mercilessly

Twitter founder and CEO Jack Dorsey announced abruptly — though the timing was certainly not accidental — that the platform would soon disallow any and all political advertising. This is the right thing to do, but it’s also going to be hard as hell for a lot of reasons. As usual in tech and politics, no good deed goes unpunished. Malicious actors state-sponsored and otherwise have and will continue to attempt to influence the outcome of U.S. elections...

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