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Enabling Wi-Fi calling reportedly fixed the problem for some, but many users (including myself) were greeted with a spinning wheel and an eventual error message when they tried to turn on this feature, leaving them disconnected still. The biggest concern was of course 911 emergency services. If you have text access, 10 states -- Arizona, Connecticut, Delaware, Indiana, Iowa, Minnesota, Maine, New Hampshire, North Dakota, and South Dakota -- do allow citizens to text 911 in an emergency. Also: The best mesh Wi-Fi…

“From the age of 15, it’s just been me and a piano in the corner of a room,” says Bill Fay. “I’m not an upfront kind of guy.”This is an understatement. The enigmatic 80-year-old has a music career going back to 1967, but there is just one live performance of Fay online – a single song on Later… With Jools Holland – and he has no interest in being a public figure. “I record just for the sake of the music,” he says.Fay’s chosen location to chat is a Toby Carvery, an upgrade from the car park he picked for his brief…

Blake Lively attended the Super Bowl LVIII alongside Taylor Swift and Ice Spice. For the biggest NFL event, the 36-year-old actress donned an outfit that appeared normal until she revealed the truth behind it. Taking to social media on February 20, the Gossip Girl star disclosed the reality behind her red Adidas tracksuit that she paired with a white crop top. Feb 11, 2024; Paradise, Nevada, USA; Actress Blake Ellender Lively looks on during the Kansas City Chiefs and San Francisco 49ers game during Super Bowl…

Get our free weekly email for all the latest cinematic news from our film critic Clarisse LoughreyGet our The Life Cinematic email for freeCillian Murphy has revealed the encouraging and heartfelt words Christopher Nolan wrote on the cover of his Oppenheimer script. The Irish actor, 47, who is still on an awards campaign tour for Nolan’s Oscar-nominated atomic bomb epic, appeared on a recent episode of CBS’ popular news show 60 Minutes.During the segment, Murphy showed a copy of his script, which had the words: “Dearest…

Sometimes the smallest things have the power to completely change someone’s world. Especially when the kindness comes from unexpected places when the world seems dark and unfair. Little Levi was having the worst day ever – the first grader had no pajamas for PJ day at school. Fortunately, there was a guardian angel who came through to help. Instead of wings, that angel drives a bus, but who cares about the details?More info: FacebookLittle Levi, who’s usually a happy and bubbly first grader, was visibly upset one…

Get our free weekly email for all the latest cinematic news from our film critic Clarisse LoughreyGet our The Life Cinematic email for freeBafta has issued a clarification after viewers expressed their upset at Friends star Matthew Perry’s exclusion from the televised In Memoriam segment.The Bafta Film Awards took place on Sunday (18 February) at London’s Royal Festival Hall, honouring the best releases and cinema talent of the past year.Scottish actor David Tennant, known for his starring roles in Doctor Who and…

A recently submitted study to The Astronomical Journal continues to search for the elusive Planet Nine (also called Planet X), which is a hypothetical planet that potentially orbits in the outer reaches of the solar system and well beyond the orbit of the dwarf planet, Pluto.The goal of this study was to narrow down the possible locations of Planet Nine and holds the potential to help researchers better understand the makeup of our solar system, along with its formation and evolutionary processes.So, what was the…

If you’ve ever fantasised about starring in your own version of Paul Verhoeven’s blistering sci-fi satire Starship Troopers, you can now rest easy: your wish has been answered. Helldivers 2, the sequel to the 2015 topdown co-op shooter, is an online game in which beefy space marines blast down to alien planets and, spurred on by jingoistic slogans, pulverise anything that moves with super hi-tech weaponry. Some of that involves giant insect monsters, sometimes it’s robots. It doesn’t really matter, though, because the…

Maisie Williams is opening up about her experience of playing Arya Stark in the HBO series Game of Thrones, at a very young age. In a new interview with The Sunday Times, Maisie Williams said that starring in the fantasy drama brought her a ‘lot of discomfort’ where she felt lost for a long time. (Also read: New Game of Thrones spinoff in works with Batman 2 writer exploring Aegon's Conquest) Maisie Williams has played Arya Stark for nine years. What Maisie Williams saidIn the interview with The Sunday Times,…

The awards juggernaut Oppenheimer provides a blockbuster treatment of one scientist’s profoundly mixed feelings regarding his role in the creation of the atomic bomb, and its subsequent use in destroying the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Now Netflix has dropped a much slimmer but thematically similar docudrama, Einstein and the Bomb, that packs a wallop in detailing how the man widely considered the father of atomic energy came to influence the innovations of the Manhattan Project, and how he lived to…