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Elon Musk shared a tweet Sunday claiming the recent murder of a college student in Georgia was being subjected to a “media blackout.” But the killing, allegedly committed by a 26-year-old Venezuelan national in the U.S. illegally, has been covered extensively by just about every media outlet in the country. The Elon Musk Twitter Saga, Part 1 of Who Knows?“The main way legacy media lies is by controlling the narrative,” Musk tweeted on Sunday night.Musk’s tweet shared an article by Zerohedge, a pseudonymous right-wing…

Sunspot AR3575 has been spewing out large amounts of solar material lately, with multiple coronal mass ejections and solar flares originating from this source. On February 6, this sunspot hurled out a dangerous M-class solar flare that caused blackouts in several regions around the world. Solar activity has been on a dangerous rise in the last few months, and it is expected to increase as we approach solar maximum. Know all about the strong M-class solar flare that impacted Earth in the last few days.M-class solar…

The Sun has been showing all its might for the past couple of months and as we approach the solar maximum, which will likely occur in 2025, its wrath is only expected to increase. The solar maximum is the period of greatest solar activity during the Sun's 11-year cycle. At solar max, the changes in the Sun's magnetic field result in more solar activity such as sunspots, CMEs, eruptions, and more. The effects of this rising solar activity were seen a few days ago as NASA and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric…

A massive power outage at NASA's Johnson Space Center in Houston, affected communications with the International Space Station or ISS, rendering the astronauts in space, virtually blind. With help from Russian cosmonauts, they were able to restore comms…

This story was originally published in Boiling Point, a newsletter about climate change and the environment. Sign up here to get it in your inbox.What’s more important: Keeping the lights on 24 hours a day, 365 days a year, or solving the climate crisis?That is in many ways a terrible question, for reasons I’ll discuss shortly. But it’s been on my mind as a ferocious heat wave roasts California and other states — and as I’ve watched Glendale respond to a Sierra Club lawsuit over the fate of the city’s gas-fired power…

The Sun recently erupted in a flare that caused a brief but intense radio blackout in the western US and the Pacific Ocean as it lashed Earth's upper atmosphere.On 2 July 2023, at 7.14 PM Eastern Standard Time, an active sunspot region called AR 3354 unleashed an X-class solar flare – the most powerful category of which our Sun is capable. Coming in at X1.0 (the biggest ever was X28, recorded nearly 20 years ago), the flare ionized Earth's upper atmosphere, interfering with high-frequency radio signals on the side of…

NASA's Ingenuity Mars Helicopter has finally made contact after 63 days of radio silence, re-stablishing communication with mission controllers at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) in Southern California. The wait ended with a sigh of relief as the data received indicated that the pioneering aircraft was in excellent condition on the distant red planet.What happenedIngenuity had originally been planned for five test flights to showcase its capabilities. However, it surpassed all expectations, completing a…

Our Sun has a thin layer of second atmosphere that lies just above the photosphere as well as a huge corona. This is the region where we see most of the solar phenomena such as solar flares, prominences, and coronal mass ejections reactions, most of which can directly impact Earth. While Sun's energy is crucial for life to exist on Earth, its related solar phenomena can cause severe damage, especially to tech instruments. Just a few months ago, the worst solar storm in 6 years hit Earth when a menacing cloud of coronal…

Millions of DirecTV customers lost access to Nexstar Media Group channels after the two companies failed to agree to a new distribution contract by a Sunday night deadline.The nationwide blackout of 159 Nexstar-owned stations — including ABC, CBS, Fox, NBC and CW network affiliates — began Sunday at 4 p.m. PT, the two companies said. The cable news network NewsNation was also part of the outage as well as about 30 stations that Nexstar manages, but are owned by Mission Broadcasting and White Knight Broadcasting.The…

Image: Mercurious (Shutterstock)As Reddit users protested the company’s sweeping changes to its application programming interface (API), big wigs at Google noticed that the online blackout caused collateral damage to Google Search.Google’s Antitrust Case Is the Best Thing That Ever Happened to AIAccording to leaked audio obtained by CNBC, Google’s senior vice president of Search Prabhakar Raghavanclaimed at a company all-hands meeting earlier this month that Google users were “not quite happy” with the search engine…