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IT: Welcome to Derry season 1 runs eight episodes, premiering Sunday, October 26, 2025, and airing weekly through Sunday, December 14, 2025, in the U.S. On TV, it’s on HBO at 9 p.m. ET, and it streams ...

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Jean-Charles Pelland's work has been made possible by financial support from the ‘QUANTA: Evolution of Cognitive Tools for Quantification’ project, which has received funding from the European ...

It's 4:00 p.m. on a Friday, and the management team is dragging themselves into yet another meeting. Some are on their fourth or fifth meeting of the day. Many have one eye on the clock and the other ...

Monster: The Ed Gein Story, released on October 3, 2025, is the third season of the American biographical crime drama anthology series Monster, created by Ian Brennan for Netflix. The show goes deep ...

Google rolled out AI Overviews to all U.S. users in May 2024. Since then, publishers have reported significant traffic losses, with some seeing click-through rates drop by as much as 89%. The question ...