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Unable to access your favorite Reddit community? Fret not. It is not your poor network neither the social media…

Will the site listen? It’s a red-letter day for Reddit, as thousands of its communities will begin a blackout today. Those of you who are frequent users — also known as “Redditors” — will see some of your favorite hangouts go private for the next 48 hours, if not longer. This also includes some notable gaming-related subreddits. For those who are not in the know, the reason for the blackout has to do with recent changes that have been implemented. A recent thread gives insight into what the protest is about. In a…

Have you tried to go on Reddit this morning and noticed that your favorite subreddit is locked and inaccessible? That's because communities across Reddit are taking a stand against the company's attempt to kill off third-party applications like Apollo by increasing the costs of using Reddit's API.Why is there a Reddit blackout?Reddit's official app was released in 2016, 11 years after the website first launched. That means that the majority of Reddit users have always used third-party applications to access the platform…

A number of subreddits on Reddit are planning several days of blackouts to protest the social media site’s proposed changes to its API, which will price many third-party apps out of existence. Last week, Reddit announced that from July 1 it will be implementing significant price hikes for developers and applications looking to access its Application Programming Interface (API), which lets third parties access Reddit without first going through the site’s front-facing interface. This lets developers create everything from…

Solar flares and solar storms are not uncommon when it comes to the poles, and they often face difficulties in GPS tracking, internet communication, and other electronic device usage. But do you know that a strong solar flare can lead to massive destruction on Earth? A strong or killer solar flare has the potential to wipe all and disrupt all the satellites on the Earth, which means that there will be a complete internet blackout, no telephonic communication, and no television or radio communication. While…

The possibility of the Sun causing catastrophic damage on Earth might seem something out of a science-fiction film, but this threat is very true. One of the best examples of Solar activity harming Earth was provided by the Roland Emmerich film 2012. It depicted the apocalypse prophesied by the Mayans many centuries ago. The storyline of the movie revolved around the Sun emitting unstable neutrinos because of anomalous energy processes, which were causing the Earth's core to heat up and eventually lead to its destruction.…

This story was originally published by Grist. Sign up for Grist’s weekly newsletter here.This Summer’s Hottest UmbrellaChris Bowe was preparing for his daughter’s ninth birthday party in February when a drenching storm knocked out power to his neighborhood in Hayward, California. Minutes before the party began, Bowe connected his electric Ford F-150 Lightning to a panel in his garage, sending electricity from the pickup truck to his house.“It was dark out, parents were dropping off their kids, and our house was lit up,”…

Wilson Fisk/ Netflicks Swamp Thing/ Warner Bros Vincent D’Onofrio has taken to Twitter to express his enthusiasm for a potential role in the upcoming Swamp Thing movie. The Full Metal Jacket actor may have even gotten James Gunn to take notice of his willingness to leave the Marvel Universe and take up residence in the DCU. While D’Onofrio, with his extensive acting skills, hasn’t landed a single position in the universe, some fans are questioning how Dwayne Johnson has landed so many. And finally, Donald Trump…

Joyner Lucas breaks off another track from his long-awaited sophomore album.The Massachusetts native kicked off the weekend with the release of his “Blackout” single, featuring Future. Joyner began teasing the release on social media Tuesday, sharing a still from the track’s official video. “I can’t hide my pain no more, this shit gon’ make me lash out,” Joyner raps in the opening verse. “I ain’t playin’ games no more, I really might just blackout/She can’t feel her legs no more, I blew her fuckin’ back out.”The…

When the upper atmosphere of Earth became ionised by a massive solar explosion, shortwave radio transmissions were severely disrupted throughout most of southeast Asia, Australia, and New Zealand. Sunspot AR3256, located close to the star's southwestern limb, was the source of the flare. Sun-watching Nasa satellite Solar Dynamics Observatory caught the outburst on camera. The X1.2 classification was assigned to this flare. The most powerful flares, designated as X-class, are further characterised by their…