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
ChatGPT is down again. Just one day after OpenAI resolved a nearly 24-hour outage, users worldwide started seeing errors, stalled prompts, and login failures on the morning of July 25, 2026. Here’s what’s actually going on, why ChatGPT down issues keep happening, and what to do in the meantime. Why Is ChatGPT Down Today? OpenAI … Read more
A Canadian camper was scrolling through Google Maps to plan a hiking route when he noticed something odd: a near-perfect ring, 15.5 miles across, sitting in the middle of the Quebec wilderness. Scientists have now confirmed what he suspected. This is the story of how a meteorite crater hiding in plain sight for 390 million … Read more
The Farnborough International Airshow 2026 opened this week with a number that’s hard to picture: $48.8 billion in deals on day one alone. By the time the show closes on Friday, that figure will be much higher. So why does one airfield in Hampshire generate tens of billions of dollars in a single week, and … Read more