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When Apple announced the iPhone 14 and iPhone 14 Pro back in September of 2022 there was a lot to get excited about. One of the features that few people will actually use was arguably one of the most important, however. Emergency SOS via Satellite is a feature that would later also appear on the iPhone 15 and iPhone 15 Pro models and it's designed to help people get help when they otherwise might not be able to.Making a phone call to emergency services is normally no problem for an iPhone or indeed any other phone, but…

Passengers aboard a United Airlines flight went through the petrifying ordeal of flying mid-air in an aircraft with a damaged wing.The Boeing 757-200, which was heading to Boston from San Francisco, made an emergency landing in Denver on Monday before all the 165 passengers were safely put on another flight to their destination.Kevin Clarke, a passenger on the damaged plane, recalled the harrowing moment of looking out the window and seeing parts of the plane’s wing missing.“I immediately opened the window, looked out…

Grammy-winning DJ Tiësto dropped out of his slot as the Super Bowl‘s first in-game DJ due to a family emergency, the musician announced Thursday. “A personal family emergency is forcing me to return home Sunday morning,” Tiësto wrote on social media. “It was a tough decision to miss the game, but family always comes first.” The Hollywood Reporter first reported that the Dutch musician was set to perform as the Super Bowl’s DJ in January. He was scheduled to play a set during the players’…

The Super Bowl will have to wait another year to have its first in-game DJ. On Thursday afternoon, just days before the big event, Tiësto announced his decision to pull out of the gig he had spent months preparing for due to a family emergency. In the new role, he was to be tasked with keeping the music going during the pre-game and game breaks. “Me and my team have been preparing something truly special for months, but a personal family emergency is forcing me to return home Sunday morning,” Tiësto posted on X…

Last Updated: January 09, 2024, 11:43 ISTAir India Express: Kolkata-Bhubaneswar Flight Makes Emergency Landing Due to Technical Issue. (Photo: Air India Express)Mid-air scare on Kolkata-Bhubaneswar flight prompts emergency landing in Kolkata due to technical issue; passengers safe, alternate flight arranged.A fully-loaded Air India Express plane heading to Bhubaneshwar from Kolkata had to return mid-air for an emergency landing at Kolkata airport.Passengers reported hearing a loud bursting sound around 5:40 pm while the…

Get our free weekly email for all the latest cinematic news from our film critic Clarisse LoughreyGet our The Life Cinematic email for freeBradley Cooper is remembering his “dramatic” first encounter with his Maestro co-star Carey Mulligan. Before the two starred opposite each other in the Oscar-nominated biopic about the late composer and conductor Leonard Bernstein, they met backstage at one of Mulligan’s stage plays. “Carey was in a one-woman show, and I went backstage to meet her and realised something was not right…

Apple offers Emergency SOS via satellite, a feature that allows people to connect with emergency services over their iPhones using satellite connectivity in areas without cellular or Wi-Fi networks, in 16 countries. Unfortunately, the world’s most populated country, India, isn’t on the list. New information suggests that the scenario might change soon. According to a new report from The Hindu Businessline, Globalstar, the company that offers satellite connectivity to iPhones globally for Emergency SOS via satellite, has…

Self-deploying sea barriers offer coastal towns some protection from the destructive forces of tsunamis – but one problem can arise when power goes out in a disaster scenario. Hence this Japanese proposal for a wall that generates its own power.There are only around two tsunamis a year worldwide that cause death or damage, according to the US Tsunami Warning System. Larger ones capable of causing death or damage more than 1,000 km (620 miles) from their point of origin happen at a rate around two per decade. But they're…

In a matter of minutes Monday morning, communities across southeastern San Diego were transformed into disaster zones: Families fled their homes in chest-deep floodwaters; vehicles were swept downstream as roads became rivers; residents cried for help atop their rooftops. A deluge of rainfall from what city officials are calling a “thousand-year storm” forced hundreds of rescues, flooded an untold number of homes and businesses and caused millions of dollars in estimated damage. The floodwaters had mostly receded by…

Photo: PATRICK T. FALLON/AFP (Getty Images)Boeing, one of the world’s largest aircraft manufacturers, has been in the news a lot lately but not in a good way. Safety incidents involving the company’s planes keep cropping up and this week brought yet another example of that unfortunate trend. On Thursday, an Atlas Air 747 cargo plane was forced to make an emergency landing in Florida after one of its engines burst into flames. Alex Winter on His Character in Destroy All Neighbors The plane, which took off from Miami en…