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I love my Apple Watch. Admittedly, I’m a pretty light user: I use it to track my steps, set timers while I cook, control my music playback, and pay for things. To be honest, I simply can’t imagine going back to a physical card or even my iPhone for that last one—Apple Watch is my default payment device whenever I’m out and about.But there’s a thin line between love and hate—and for me, it gets crossed whenever the humidity rises to a point where the sky can’t contain it anymore. That’s when the Apple Watch goes from being…

Everyone’s heard about how terrible 2023 was for Disney at the box office — from Indiana Jones to The Marvels, many of the Mouse House’s seemingly surefire blockbusters failed to, well, bust blocks. That said, it wasn’t always as bad as the negative noise would have you believe. When Elemental opened to less than $30 million last June, much was made about how far Pixar had come since its glory days yada yada… But as it turned out this, the film had enough fire to weather the elements. All in all, Elemental went on to…

Southern California’s stormy week is set to wind down Friday after two storm systems that brought tornado warnings, heavy flooding and at-times historic rainfall rates, especially in parts of Ventura County.At least 60 homes were red-tagged in Ventura County as a result of flooding, which hit Oxnard and Port Hueneme hard.For the most part, the bulk of the rain seems to be past. Joe Sirard, a meteorologist with the National Weather Service, said rain was expected to continue in moderate amounts Friday with a slight chance…

As Hurricane Larry lashed Newfoundland in 2021, university students from Halifax headed to a rural area in its track to find out whether the ocean might whip microplastics up into the atmosphere then transport them by air to otherwise pristine communities.The results, you could say, blew their socks off."It was such, like, an astonishing result that we weren't really expecting," said Anna Ryan, a Dalhousie University environmental science masters student and the study's lead researcher. To test their theory, the…

Apple's Foxconn and Pegatron factories in Chennai have been forced to shutdown production amid the torrential rain caused by Cyclone Michaung. Foxconn plans to restart production as soon as by the end of Tuesday, but is unlikely to do so if the weather continues to be this bad…

Sepideh Razipour and her husband never thought they could afford to be homeowners, but when their Rolling Hills Estates rental went up for sale, they scrambled to make the townhouse their own, pulling together savings and borrowing from extended family.But before they made their first mortgage payment, a massive landslide upended life on Peartree Lane, pulling eight neighbors’ homes down a nearby canyon and pushing others into different levels of structural purgatory. Razipour’s home survived unscathed, but the land…

Exoplanets are definitely a bit of a hot topic at the moment. Throw in a sprinkling of the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) and you have the recipe for magic!I still cannot believe that we have discovered, yes actually discovered 5,539 exoplanets and there are more being confirmed every day! The first exoplanet was discovered in 1992 and now over five and a half THOUSAND planets around other star systems are known!A team of astronomers have been exploring one in particular, the enigmatic WASP-107b using JWST and have…

Excessive rainfall last winter from a string of atmospheric river storms caused a landslide in Rolling Hills Estates in July that destroyed eight homes and deemed several others unsafe, according to a city report released this week.The report, prepared by an outside geotechnical engineering firm, found “the primary factor that caused the Peartree Lane slope failure was the unusually heavy rainfall that occurred during the winter of 2022-2023.” The 277-page analysis, conducted by Irvine-based GeoKinetics and reviewed…

CLIMATEWIRE | It was the most intense rainfall in New York City history and caused the deaths of 11 people trapped in flooded basements. Nearly two years after Hurricane Ida shocked New Yorkers, officials are warning that residents of New York — and many other U.S. cities — face growing danger as climate change intensifies urban flash flooding. A series of new reports by the Federal Emergency Management Agency says that most urban drainage systems “were not built to handle the amount of runoff from increasingly intense…

For the first time ever, Samsung will be holding an Unpacked event in its home country. The second Unpacked event of 2023, where Samsung will unveil flagship devices in the foldable, tablet, and smartwatch segments, will be held in Seoul on Wednesday, July 26. As with every Unpacked event, this one will be attended by journalists and media (including SamMobile) from around the world and will be streamed online for everyone else. But Samsung also had plans to hold a live outdoor viewing for citizens and tourists. In…