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SpaceX is gearing up for the seventh test flight of the Starship, the most powerful rocket ever to launch. At the current time, the Elon Musk-led spaceflight company is targeting liftoff forthe afternoon of Wednesday, January 15. As with the previous six flights, SpaceX will launch the 120-meter-tall Starship — which consists of the first-stage Super Heavy booster and the upper stage Starship spacecraft — from its Starbase site near Boca Chica, Texas....

At Blizzcon 2019, in a simpler time, Blizzard outlined its plans to makeWorld of Warcraftfeel like an RPG again. It was a shocking confession of failure from the minds behind the most influential western MMORPG. Blizzard promised that before the (now delayed)Shadowlandsexpansion release, it planned to refine the leveling experience to make every “ding” feel rewarding. It would all start with a squish, reducing the game’s lofty maximum level of 120 down to a measly 60 — the lowest cap since “vanilla”World of Warcraft(now known asClassic) launched 16 years ago....

World reeling from global Crowdstrike BSOD issue: “The largest IT outage in history” IT professionals across the globe have reacted in surprise and horror at the scale of the Crowdstrike outage as problems continue to mount. Affected users and IT professionals have taken to social media to express their thoughts on the ongoing outage. One of those was Troy Hunt, a Microsoft Regional Director and the creator of HaveIBeenPwned, a site that checks if your personal information has been breached....

YouTuber rejects “fire hazard” fears as her 12ft disco-ball Halloween skeleton goes viral YouTuber Ali Spagnola has gone viral after making a 12-foot-tall disco-ball skeleton for Halloween, prompting fears that it’s a “fire hazard” from viewers. On October 13, Ali posted a video to her TikTok account detailing the work she went through to make her latest unique craft: a 12-foot-tall skeleton covered in tiny mirrors. After nine days and over 70 hours of work, the creator put 500,000 tiny mirror tiles on the entire surface of the massive Halloween decoration....

Video conferencing software company Zoom has admitted that it suspended the accounts of users in the United States and Hong Kong at the request of the Chinese government, and that it intends to add the ability to block or remove meeting participants from mainland China. Zoom last week suspended the accounts of three human rights activists, Lee Cheuk-yan, Wang Dan, and Zhou Fengsuo, who used the service tohold online discussionsabout the anniversary of the Tiananmen Square massacre....

TheBig Bang Theory’s upcoming 12th season, which will start June 01, 2025,will sadly be its last. The CBS sitcom about a group of highly intelligentyetsocially awkward physicists who work at Caltech, their equally oddball and nerdy friends and colleagues, and the pretty waitress/aspiring actress who moves in across the hall, has consistently been ratings gold for the network, though viewership began todip slightly in the last season. Its five main cast members, Johnny Galecki, Jim Parsons, Kaley Cuoco, Simon Helberg, and Kunal Nayyar, are among thehighest-paid actors on TV, even afteragreeing to a pay cut last yearin order to increase the salaries of newest cast members Melissa Rauch and Mayim Bialak....

Summary Quentin Tarantino’sPulp Fictionintroduced many memorable characters, and one of them returned 20 years later in a project unrelated tothe universe of Tarantino’s movies. Tarantino’s career as a filmmaker began in 1992 with the crime movieReservoir Dogs, and though it was a big success, Tarantino’s big break arrived two years later withPulp Fiction.Pulp Fictionwas a critical and commercial success, and it’s widely regarded as not just Tarantino’s best work, but also one of the greatest movies ever made, becoming part of pop culture....

Summary Darth Vaderis undoubtedly an incredibly fearsomeStar Warscharacter, but these 10 characters could have beaten him in battle (and some did). Vader is one ofStar Wars’most powerful Sith, in the movies especially, but there are other Sith in Legends and canon who outrank him in raw power and skill. There are also a number of Jedi throughoutStar Warsmovies and TV showswho either have bested Vader in battle or would have done so had they ever faced off....

Tubiboasts one of the most impressive libraries on streaming, with over 50,000 movies and television shows. Tubi features content from some of the biggest studios and providers in the world, including Warner Bros. Discovery, Disney, Fox, Sony Pictures, and Paramount Pictures. Due to the wide selection of programs, there are plenty of chances to discover new films you have never seen or have little knowledge of. For October, we created a list of three underrated movies to stream on Tubi....

You no doubt know the basics of home maintenance when you’re headed out for a vacation: Arm the security system, leave a light on so it looks like people are home, arrange for pet and plant care, and turn the thermostat down. But there’s an easier way to do it all automatically. Today’s smart home systems are packed with features, and many of them can help you prepare for a vacation, and take care of some important details while you’re gone....

Warning: Spoilers for Godzilla Minus One Summary A callback to a 1990s Godzilla movie inGodzilla Minus Onehelps illustrate the reason this iteration of the iconic kaiju is a villain. In stark contrast to the alpha of the Titans of the same name in the Monsterverse,Godzilla Minus One’stitular character is depicted as an enemy to humanity. As a story that pits the people of Japan against the King of the Monsters, the movie is a reminder of Godzilla’s roots....

Summary The announcement ofA Quiet Place: The Road Ahead, a new game set in the same universe as the movies, is promising to stir up a new style of survival horror gameplay. The 2018 hit movie, directed by John Krasinski and starred by him and Emily Blunt, take place in a post-apocalyptic Earth, which has been overrun by a dangerous alien species. These deadly extraterrestrials are blind, however, and hunt with their sense of hearing....

There are many ways we can take our music along with us and nowadays we don’t have to settle for second-rate gear.Headphoneshave always boasted undeniable portability and thankfully there are more than a fewBluetooth speakersthat have followed suit. Blasting good tunes can make for an exhilarating experience especially when you’re among friends. Right now, you can get your adrenaline pumping and get in on up to $100 in savings when you order either Marshall’s Stockwell II or JBL’s Boombox from Amazon....