Blacula isn’t as famous as Dracula, but he has a great deal more to be angry about. The star of the 1972 blaxploitation horror hit was an 18th-century African prince who asked Dracula’s help to end the slave trade. Instead, Dracula turned him into a vampire, killed his wife, and imprisoned him under his castle.…
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Scientists Are Testing an Old Cough Medicine as a Parkinson's Disease Treatment
An important clinical trial for Parkinson’s disease has just gotten underway in the UK. The placebo-controlled Phase III trial will test whether a long-existing cough medication can slow down the progression of the neurodegenerative condition and improve people’s quality of life. Earlier studies have suggested that…
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Tesla Tries to Salvage Shrinking Stock and Fend-Off Competition by Slashing Prices Up to 20%
Increased competition from global carmakers and management missteps have led Tesla, once one of the world’s more expensive electric vehicle makers, to introduce new price cuts across its lineup of products.
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Paizo President Jim Butler Reveals Plans for a Universal RPG License
While Wizards of the Coast was still assembling its party, other leaders in the tabletop roleplaying games industry were studying the blade. As fans waited for the Hasbro-owned company to respond to the ongoing controversy over the Dungeons & Dragons Open Game License, Paizo announced it would be financially…
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Harry Styles Serves Suit Over Stolen Styles
Famed pop star Harry Styles is taking a page directly from major clothing brands in his attempt to shut down counterfeit online retailers selling Styles-styled merchandise.
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These Pearl Earrings Are Secretly Wireless Earbuds
Wireless earbuds are no longer just a convenient way to listen to music and podcasts. As work continues to shift away from offices and we’re more dependent on virtual meetings and phone calls, many of us leave earbuds in all day long, but for those wanting something more fashionable and invisible than a white stick,…
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Marvel's Moon Girl and Devil Dinosaur Trailer Unleashes the Dino-Mite Duo
Get ready to meet girl genius Lunella Lafayette and her partner in fighting crime—who just so happens to be a T-rex—in Marvel’s Moon Girl and Devil Dinosaur.
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Linguists Have Officially Dubbed '-Ussy' as Word of the Year
The evolution of language on the Internet is truly a fascinating one, and future linguists will be shaking their head at the American Dialect Society’s choice for 2022 word of the year: “-ussy.”

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Clouded Leopard Escapes From Dallas Zoo Enclosure
A clouded leopard was reported missing from the Dallas Zoo on Friday as staff say they showed up to work to find her gone and a tear in her mesh enclosure. The zoo put out an urgent message on Twitter saying the clouded leopard is “non-dangerous,” but the zoo has shut down while they search for the missing animal.
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SEC Charges Crypto Firms Genesis and Gemini With Selling Unregistered Securities
The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission charged Genesis Global Capital LLC and Gemini Trust Company LLC on Thursday for allegedly providing unregistered securities to investors through a program that touted a high interest on deposits.
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How to Watch SpaceX's Falcon Heavy Launch a Classified Military Satellite
The U.S. military is hitching a ride aboard a SpaceX Falcon Heavy—the most powerful commercial rocket currently in operation. Here’s how you can watch the classified USSF-67 mission take to Florida’s twilight skies.

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13 Gruesomely Excellent Friday the 13th Kills
Today is Friday the 13th, and horror fans know the best way to mark the occasion is by spending some quality time with a certain machete-loving, teenager-hating masked maniac (and his dear mother, of course). This list isn’t a movie ranking—we’ve already done that—but rather a round-up of what we consider to be the…
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Amazon Removes Some Nazi Paraphernalia From Site After Jewish Group Claims It Monetizes Hate
Once again, Amazon is being put on blast for racist and anti-Semitic products that third-party sellers are funneling through the retail giant’s platform.

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Ghosts Will Return to Scare Up a Third Season
The current TV landscape is packed full of high-profile witches, vampires, werewolves, and zombies—and now there’s word that another supernatural series will continue to haunt the airwaves for another season. CBS’ hit comedy Ghosts has just been renewed for a third installment.
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The Best Friday the 13th Movies, Ranked
Happy Friday the 13th! The Jason Voorhees faithful may end up waiting forever for that long-promised 13th Friday the 13th movie, and the new Friday the 13th prequel series coming to Peacock won’t hit until later this year. But the good news is that there are 12 other Fridays to watch in the meantime.
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Willow Showrunner Jon Kasdan Talks Season 1 Spoilers and Reception—and His Season 2 Aspirations
The first season of Disney+ series Willow is over. If you watched, you no doubt have questions about some of the season’s final moments, and are wondering if it’s been renewed for season two yet (it has not). If you didn’t watch, maybe you’re now thinking, “They made a Willow TV show?” Both of these are completely…
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This Violent Night Deleted Scene Is an Early Reminder to Stay Off the Naughty List
You may have just finished packing away all your holiday decorations, but here’s a good reason to inject a little bonus Christmas spirit into your January: Violent Night—David Harbour’s excellent Santa-goes-Die Hard tale—is arriving soon on digital, Blu-ray, and DVD. io9 has an exclusive deleted scene from the…
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Climate Gentrification Is Coming to Hurricane-Wrecked Florida
You might assume that home prices would decline in an area recently wrecked by a hurricane, but a new study finds the opposite is true, and post-storm price hikes could be a major driver of what’s known as climate gentrification.
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NASA's Moon-Bound Lunar Flashlight Is Experiencing Thruster Issues
NASA’s Lunar Flashlight is on a mission to hunt for water ice on the Moon’s surface, but the mission appears to be in trouble as three of the craft’s four thrusters are “underperforming,” according to NASA.
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Wizards of the Coast Breaks Its Silence on Dungeons and Dragons' Open Game License
Wizards of the Coast, the Hasbro subsidiary that publishes Dungeons & Dragons, revealed details of its new Open Game License on Friday and attempted to answer questions about the future of the D&D community that were raised after io9 broke the news about the contents of a draft of the document last week.

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Meta Sues 'Predictive Policing' Firm for Using Fake Accounts to Scrape More Than 600,000 Facebook Profiles
Meta, the company previously known as Facebook, may not have the best track record when it comes to preserving its users’ privacy, but it nonetheless wants to make damn sure other companies aren’t spying on its community without its approval.
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