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No Way Home’ Is Finally Knocked Off Its Pedestal

Today is the story of two very different Marvel productions nevertheless both taking a tumble. But while one widely beloved movie is facing a bit of a fall in fans’ estimations, an upcoming project that had slipped everybody’s mind is about to suffer a significant delay. Elsewhere, the MCU has finally achieved a huge cinematic honor as Fantastic Four fans turn to an unexpected source to find their next Reed Richards. A Disney Plus series you’d probably forgotten was happening has been hit with a major delay Image via…

Small businesses knocked offline as Crazy Domains drops out

“We’re having to migrate everything over to a temporary email server because we don’t want to keep waiting on them to give us an answer as to when it’s going to be resolved.”Several small businesses and operators of personal websites have contacted The Age / Sydney Morning Herald with similar stories; their site and/or email service disappeared on Thursday and were still not working by Tuesday. Some were primarily concerned that they were losing business or paying for a service they weren’t receiving. With no…

Solar Power Stayed On as Hurricane Ian Knocked Lights Out Across Florida

Neighborhoods powered by solar panels with backup batteries weathered the direct onslaught of Hurricane Ian in Florida, utilities and developers said, keeping the lights on throughout the storm while millions of others lost power.At least three solar-powered communities near Fort Myers and Tampa made it through Ian without losing electricity. Some also had hardened electrical infrastructure, including buried lines and stronger power poles, that helped them weather the storm and its aftermath. At the new Medley…

Best Buy just knocked $200 off this Chromebook — now $99

If you’re a student on a tight budget, Chromebooks offer a great alternative to laptops that often cost hundreds of dollars more while still offering the same features. For example, this 14-inch Asus Chromebook not only has a big screen, but it’s currently going for only $99 at Best Buy as part of the Best Buy Prime Day deals that we’ve seen in the past couple of days. Why you should buy the Asus 14-inch Chromebook While the Asus Chromebook doesn’t quite make the list of best Chromebooks for 2022, it is still a…

Success! NASA Knocked an Asteroid Off Course (And Now It Has a Tail) : ScienceAlert

NASA on Tuesday celebrated exceeding expectations during a mission to deflect a distant asteroid, in a sci-fi-like test of humanity's ability to stop an incoming cosmic object from devastating life on Earth.The fridge-sized Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) impactor deliberately smashed into the moonlet asteroid Dimorphos on September 26, pushing it into a smaller, faster orbit around its big brother Didymos, NASA chief Bill Nelson announced.That changed its orbital period by four percent, or 32 minutes – from 11…

One of 2022’s Biggest Movies Offers DC Comics Relief by Refusing to Get Knocked off the Charts

Warner Bros. When DC gets it right, it gets it really right. Live-action adaptations of the loved comic giant’s extensive catalog have a history of going from hits to misses, but one film seems to have stuck its landing particularly well this year by staying consistent on streaming charts after a successful theater run. The Batman, directed by Matt Reeves and starring Robert Pattinson of Twilight and Tenet fame as Gotham’s Dark Knight, accompanied by Big Little Lies‘ Zoë Kravitz as a soon-to-be Catwoman is…

Google Search and Maps Were Briefly Knocked Offline Last Night

Photo: Torsten Silz (Getty Images)Large swaths of U.S. internet users last night briefly experienced the dark, frustrating realities of a world devoid of Google services. Though Google has since resolved the outage issues, earlier reports suggested the disruptions could have been tied to an “electrical incident” at a Council Bluffs, Iowa data center that left at least three electricians critically injured. Google denied the link when speaking with Gizmodo, and said the outages were due to an internal error, whatever that

Tom Hanks May Not Swear Much In Movies, But He Sure Dropped An F-Bomb After Fans Knocked Into Rita Wilson

Tom Hanks has been considered one of the nicest guys in Hollywood. After all, he recently crashed a wedding that occurred on the Santa Monica Pier by offering to take a picture with the happy bride and groom. He also gave a refund to a couple who wasn’t happy with his Larry Crowne movie and even appeared in Carly Ray Jepson’s adorable music video despite it being one of the coldest recorded winters in New York. While this nice guy may not swear much in his movies, Tom Hanks dropped an f-bomb after fans knocked into his…

Tom Hanks shouts at fans after wife Rita Wilson almost knocked down: ‘Back the f*** off!’

Footage has emerged of Tom Hanks shouting at fans who nearly knocked over his wife Rita Wilson, as they tried to get selfies and autographs with the famous couple.In the video, which was taken outside a restaurant in New York, Hanks, 65, and Wilson, 65, are seen walking towards a car while being pursued by fans with their phones out.As Hanks and Wilson near their car, one person appears to push into another fan who is walking directly behind Wilson. The man is then pushed into her, and she stumbles.Wilson can then be seen…

NASA Says Tiny Meteoroid Struck James Webb Space Telescope, Knocked Gold-Plated Mirror Out of Alignment

A tiny meteoroid struck the newly deployed James Webb Space Telescope in May, knocking one of its gold-plated mirrors out of alignment but not changing the orbiting observatory's schedule to become fully operational shortly, NASA said on Wednesday.The little space rock hit the $10 billion (roughly Rs. 780 crore) telescope sometime in late May and left a small but noticeable effect in the telescope's data, NASA said in a statement, adding that it was the fifth and largest hit to the telescope since its December…