On the evening of 12 August 2026, the Moon will blot out the Sun over Iceland and Spain. A few hours later, once darkness falls, the same sky will fill with shooting stars. This is not a coincidence dreamed up for a headline. Both events are happening for exactly the same reason, on exactly the … Read more
Latest, Aug 8, 2026, evening ET: Verizon says its engineers are “making progress” on the voice service issue and recommend restarting your device if you’re still affected. The outage began Saturday afternoon and is not yet fully resolved for everyone. This page will be updated as the situation develops. If you’re a Verizon customer and … Read more
On August 7, 2026 — three days after Disclosure Day concluded its opening weekend — the U.S. Department of War published Pentagon UFO Files Batch 5, the fifth tranche of declassified records under the Presidential Unsealing and Reporting System for UAP Encounters (PURSUE). Batch 5 consists of 41 documents, images, and videos sourced from the … Read more
In the eastern Nevada desert, a mining company has just confirmed the largest known tungsten deposit in the United States — enough of a critical war-and-industry metal to end America’s decade of dependence on Chinese supply. There’s one problem. A third of it sits underneath land NASA has used for more than three decades, and … Read more
Quick check, updated regularly: As of early August 2026, Netflix has no confirmed major outage. Outage trackers show a normal baseline of scattered reports — a handful of people always report playback or login issues on any given day. If you’re seeing errors right now, it’s most likely a local issue on your end rather … Read more
At 19:49 on Friday 31 July 2026, the ground under Pozzuoli moved hard enough to crack a port, close two railway lines and send people running into the street in their pyjamas. The Naples earthquake registered magnitude 4.7. On paper that is a moderate tremor. In Campi Flegrei it was the strongest shock recorded since … Read more
Update, 12 August 2026, evening: Today’s eclipse has now happened. Spain delivered on its forecast — clear skies across much of the path of totality, with NBC reporting live from Valladolid as the sky darkened at sunset. Iceland was less fortunate: dense cloud and rain rolled into Grundarfjörður on the west coast shortly before totality … Read more
If you tapped your phone at a checkout today and nothing happened, you were not alone. Millions of people opened their Wallet app and got an error instead of a payment. So why is Apple Pay not working today? The short answer: Apple’s payment servers went down on the afternoon of July 31, 2026, and … Read more
You stepped outside, looked up, and the moon is the wrong colour. Not silver-white but orange, or coppery, or a dull smoky red — and it looks bigger than it should. So why is the moon orange tonight? The short answer is that you are not looking at the moon. You are looking at the … Read more
T-Mobile customers across the United States started seeing “SOS” or “SOS Only” instead of their usual signal bars on the afternoon of July 27, 2026. Downdetector logged more than 140,000 reports at the peak, making this T-Mobile SOS outage one of the largest carrier disruptions in years. Here’s what actually happened, why phones switched into … Read more