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When The Rocky Horror Picture Show premiered in 1975, no one could have dreamed that it would become the longest-running theatrical release film in history. But that's what happened. Thanks to a killer soundtrack, campy humor, and a devoted cult following, Rocky Horror is still a mainstay of midnight movie culture. In honor of its 50th anniversary, Disney/20th Century Studios is releasing a newly restored 4K HDR version in October, along with deluxe special editions on DVD and Blu-ray. And the film has inspired not one, but two documentaries marking its five decades of existence: Strange Journey: The Story of Rocky Horror and Sane Inside Insanity: The Phenomenon of Rocky Horror.

(Spoilers below, because it's been 50 years.)

The film is an adaption of Richard O'Brien's 1973 musical for the stage, The Rocky Horror Show. At the time, he was a struggling actor and wrote the musical as an homage to the science fiction and B horror movies he'd loved since a child. In fact, the opening song ("Science Fiction/Double Feature") makes explicit reference to many of those, including 1951's The Day the Earth Stood Still, Flash Gordon (1936), King Kong (1933), The Invisible Man (1933), Forbidden Planet (1956), and The Day of the Triffids (1962), among others.

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After several days of working its way across the open and at times hostile Atlantic Ocean this week, Hurricane Erin found more favorable conditions and exploded in intensity on Friday night. Shortly before noon on Saturday, the National Hurricane Center declared that Erin had reached Category 5 status, the most powerful kind of hurricane.

This determination is based on sustained winds, which were measured by a US Air Force Hurricane Hunter aircraft on Saturday at 160 mph.

There is some good news: Erin is threading a needle with its projected track. Although it should pass close to several landmasses between now and next Thursday, Erin should remain far enough away to avoid catastrophic damage. Erin is presently passing to the north of the Caribbean islands, and will turn northward before reaching the Bahamas and the Eastern United States. Later next week it should follow a path that takes it between Atlantic Canada and Bermuda.

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Microsoft ändert die Preisstruktur für seine Online Services. Volumenlizenzen soll es nicht mehr geben, stattdessen gelten einheitliche Preise. (Microsoft 365, Microsoft)

Ein spanisches Unternehmen entwickelt extrem kompakte KI-Modelle, die ohne Netzverbindung in Smartphones, Haushaltsgeräten und IoT-Devices laufen. (KI, Arduino)

Ein französischer Investor rettet den angeschlagenen Hersteller von stylischen E-Bikes. Zuletzt musste Cowboy zahlreiche Räder zurückrufen. (E-Bike, Wirtschaft)

Studenten haben eine Drohne entwickelt, die sowohl in der Luft als auch unter Wasser operieren kann. Das macht sie für Rettungseinsätze interessant. (Drohne, Luftfahrt)

Everything we see around us, from the ground beneath our feet to the most remote galaxies, is made of matter. For scientists, that has long posed a problem: According to physicists’ best current theories, matter and its counterpart, antimatter, ought to have been created in equal amounts at the time of the Big Bang. But antimatter is vanishingly rare in the universe. So what happened?

Physicists don’t know the answer to that question yet, but many think the solution must involve some subtle difference in the way that matter and antimatter behave. And right now, the most promising path into that unexplored territory centers on new experiments involving the mysterious subatomic particle known as the neutrino.

“It’s not to say that neutrinos are definitely the explanation of the matter-antimatter asymmetry, but a very large class of models that can explain this asymmetry are connected to neutrinos,” says Jessica Turner, a theoretical physicist at Durham University in the United Kingdom.

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Teenage Engineering verschenkt das faltbare PC-Gehäuse. Das Mini-ITX-Gehäuse besteht aus einem Kunststoffbogen und kommt ohne Schrauben aus. (Gehäuse/Kühlung/Netzteile, PC-Gehäuse)

Bilder von zu früh veröffentlichten Tests zeigen die neue Drohne DJI Mini 5 Pro, die mit einem 1-Zoll-Kamerasensor und Lidar-Technik ausgerüstet ist. (Drohne, DJI)