Disney Pixar's Toy Story is one of those series that tugs at every single heart string, but it turns out there are few more to pull... as Andy's dad might have one of the saddest stories in Pixar history.

You've got more choices than ever when it comes to backing up your data — you are backing up your data, right? — so how do you choose the best one for your needs? First, it's a good idea to pick up some kind of external hard drive. You can go the Network Attached Storage (NAS) route if you want to access the storage from your Wi-Fi (or build your own Netflix). You can also just get a regular external hard drive from someone like Seagate or Western Digital.

Hey, sailors! Welcome back to Animals Are Good: Cephalopod Week edition. Cephalopods, in case you're wondering, are a class of mollusks to which octopus, squid, and cuttlefish belong. As the week comes to a close, we'd like to give a much-deserved shoutout to one of the cutest tentacle-babies out there: the dumbo octopus (genus Grimpoteuthis).

Microsoft has confirmed that a significant chunk of its source code for Windows 10 was posted to a repository called BetaArchive. The exact size of the leak has been disputed, but the data reportedly comes from the Shared Source Kit that Microsoft distributes to trusted partners.

The US Department of Justice is attempting to take its long-running legal battle with Microsoft over access to emails stored on foreign servers to the Supreme Court. After several delays, the Justice Department recently filed a petition asking the Supreme Court to take its case. An appeals court previously ruled in favour of Microsoft, finding the the Justice Department couldn't use a warrant to obtain messages from one of the company's overseas data centres and would have to request the data through an international treaty process instead.

As much as die-hard fans go to bat for Fox's X-Men movie franchise, there's a general consensus that the studio has largely missed the mark when it comes to translating certain characters' comic book costume designs to the big screen. Sir Ian McKellan wants that to change.

If you were wondering how Harry Potter got his name, then JK Rowling has finally given an answer. She's also explained how it was that there were no wizarding grandparents to take in Harry after his parents died.

Video: The title of Scorch Motion's short, Life Without Stuff, suggests a solid anti-consumerist philosophy — something everyone, not just hoarders, could probably stand to embrace. Unless, of course, that "stuff" happens to be very much in use and necessary when it suddenly disappears. Poof!

Each of DC and Warner Bros.' Justice League/Looney Tunes crossovers have struck a delicate balance between slapstick comedy and classic superhero action that ends up making all of the characters involved more interesting. In the upcoming Batman/Elmer Fudd special, though, things get vewy, vewy dark.

Sex is good. What else can you say? We're a species that gets to actually enjoy sexual activity. It makes babies. When consenting adults do sex-making, it is good.

A young man's father heads off into space to look for intelligent life. He never returns. Decades later, that young man decides to journey across the galaxy in search of his father. That's rumoured to be the plot of a new sci-fi film called Ad Astra, and writer-director James Grey just landed his second star.

So it's come to this. Blade Runner fans have debated for decades whether or not Rick Deckard (Harrison Ford) was a replicant. And they have debated whether or not there even was an answer in the movie at all. They have debated who to believe. And when Blade Runner 2049 directed Denis Villeneuve said that there wouldn't be an answer in the sequel, we made our peace. Well, Ridley Scott's kicked that wasp nest all over again.

Microsoft's tall claim that "no known ransomware" will run on its Windows 10 S operating system has been weighed, measured and found wanting.

If David Lynch designed a planet, it would be Uranus. Much like every episode of Twin Peaks: The Return, Uranus is fiercely unique and weirdly endearing, even though it makes no fucking sense. The planet's spin axis is 98 degrees, so it essentially rotates on its side — and while we have some idea as to what could have caused that, no one's really sure. That's just how Uranus rolls, literally.

Full reviews won't be posted until next week, but Sony lifted the social media embargo for press who have seen Spider-Man: Homecoming moments ago, and the first results are (for the most part) encouraging.

Claiming that evolution is "debatable, controversial, and too complicated for students," Turkey's board of education has decided to stop teaching Darwinian natural selection in its schools. The move has infuriated the country's secular opposition, but it could embolden other countries to do the same.

You can say a lot about Apple — it brought smartphones and personal computers to the mass market, it changed the technology industry forever, it was controlled by a megalomaniacal arsehole for much of its existence — but you'd have a hard time getting even the staunchest critic of the company to argue its products weren't groundbreakingly pretty.

It seems like Aquaman will delve into Arthur Curry's past. A surprising Handmaid's Tale return is confirmed. There's more to deaths in the aftermath of Arrow's explosive season finale. Plus, new pictures from The Lego Ninjago Movie, and Peter Capaldi and Pearl Mackie on Doctor Who's season finale. Spoilers now!

We're all clamouring to get into space these days, but lost in our excitement to fly to the Moon and colonise Mars is a brutal truth: the final frontier is a cold, inhospitable wasteland that will kill you at the first opportunity it gets.