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State regulators voted Wednesday to allow Xcel Energy-Colorado to recover hundreds of millions of dollars from customers for costs from a 2021 winter storm, but knocked $8 million from the $508 million sought after criticizing the utility’s actions before and during the frigid weather. Xcel Energy customers will eventually see a temporary rider on their monthly electric and natural gas bills to pay for the costs. The costs stem from a February 2021 storm that brought record cold temperatures and soaring natural gas prices…

Chris Evans (left) loves the idea of a Johnny Storm multiverse cameo.Image: FoxWhat does the future hold for Chris Evans and the Marvel Cinematic Universe? If rumors are true, the actor has been ready to suit up as Captain America again for over a year. He himself has denied that, and Marvel Studios doesn’t address rumors, but in a new interview the man behind the shield warmed up to an even more unorthodox return to the MCU.Back in 2005, years before the Marvel Cinematic Universe would truly take off, Evans plays Johnny…

Apple Arcade subscribers can now try their hand at finding recipes, choosing ingredients, and cooking up a storm with Cooking Mama Cuisine! now available for download. The latest Apple Arcade addition comes to iPhone, iPad, Mac, and Apple TV and is free of ads and in-app purchases. The game will see players do all the kinds of things fans of Cooking Mama games expect, including collecting cooking points to get new designs for outfits and accessories. As you'd expect, you're going to need an Apple Arcade subscription…

NASA is gearing up to launch tiny satellites into space that will help forecasters keep a closer eye on tropical storms as they develop in a mission called TROPICS. Crucially, if the launches are successful, the satellites will mark a big advancement in our ability to watch rapidly intensifying storms. At the moment, NASA’s weather satellites can only check in on a storm every four to six hours. “So we’re missing a lot of what’s happening in the storm,” Bill Blackwell, principal investigator for the TROPICS mission and…

We are always innovating our blockchain architecture to offer the most capable platform with Bitcoin’s security, Ethereum’s flexibility, and Syscoin’s own scaling solutions. Syscoin is designed to be used by individuals from the unbanked to the elite, global enterprise and even governments across the entire globe. Our three-phase NEVM roadmap achieved completion of its first phase with the launch of our NEVM Layer 1 back in December. We now have big news as ‘Phase 2: Rollups’ quickly approaches integration. We are…

CLIMATEWIRE | An intensifying tropical system that became the first named storm of the 2022 Atlantic hurricane season dumped nearly 15 inches of rain on parts of South Florida on Saturday, giving the region an early taste of what experts say could be a very active hurricane season. By yesterday morning, the depression had turned into Tropical Storm Alex. It churned north-northeast into the Atlantic Ocean, where it was expected to bring high winds and heavy rain to Bermuda this morning. The storm was less severe than…

In Fortnite Chapter 3, Season 3, the map changes are meant to suit the new theme: Vibin'. That means it's officially hot looper summer and the summertime vibes have returned in full force like they do every June in-game. On the island, this feel-good season takes shape with a number of stylish new map changes, including a wild roller coaster, a lush and luminescent forest, and new mechanics to change and enhance how you play Fortnite. Here's what to watch for when it comes to the new Fortnite map.Fortnite…

This infrared image from NASA’s Spitzer Space Telescope shows the broken Comet 73P/Schwassman-Wachmann 3 skimming along a trail of debris left during its multiple trips around the sun. The flame-like objects are the comet’s fragments and their tails, while the dusty comet trail is the line bridging the fragments. Credit: NASAIf skies are clear, be sure to watch for a potential tau Herculid meteor outburst early Tuesday morning.With a little cosmic luck, we could potentially be in for a meteor storm of epic proportions…

| Nw comic book publisher 10 Ton Press launch two new titles in their August 2022 solicits and solicitations. Becoming Frankenstein by Mel Smith, Paul H. Birch and Frank Cirocco, looking at the origin story of Victor Frankenstein, the man who would bring life to the lifeless. "Herein lies the stories of those who suffered and died, with their corpses dissected to help make Victor Frankenstein's dream come true." And Brandon McKinney launches Crimson Storm about a patriotic hero in nineties America. "Can she walk the line…

As Earth orbits the Sun, it plows through dust and debris left behind by comets and asteroids. That debris gives birth to meteor showers – which can be one of nature's most amazing spectacles.  Most meteor showers are predictable, recurring annually when the Earth traverses a particular trail of debris.Occasionally, however, Earth runs through a particularly narrow, dense clump of debris. This results in a meteor storm, sending thousands of shooting stars streaking across the sky each hour.A minor shower called the Tau…