If you call customer service today, you might be on hold a little longer than usual: It's Telephone Tuesday, the day of the year businesses supposedly get the most phone calls. There's always a big spike after Labor Day weekend, because everyone is open again and it's the unofficial start of fall, so people are starting to plan for the holidays. READ MORE.
The Artemis One moon mission rocket launch was a no-go again on Saturday. They pulled the plug on the launch Saturday morning after they couldn’t stop a leak of liquid hydrogen fuel. NASA has delayed any new launch attempt until at least Sept. 19. READ MORE.
NASA is going to crash the $330M Dart robot spacecraft into the asteroid Dimorphos to see if they can deflect its orbit. Scientists say their observations of the impact will give them data on how well spacecraft can protect the Earth from an asteroid Armageddon. The half-ton probe is set to hit the asteroid at more than four miles per second, or over 14k mph, on September 27th. READ MORE.
Amazon is holding reviews of the “Lord of the Rings” prequel “The Rings of Power” for 72 hours to weed out trolls and make sure every review is legitimate. The first two episodes of the billion-dollar Prime Video series only have a 37% positive rating on Rotten Tomatoes READ MORE.
The first of two tribute shows for late Foo Fighters drummer Taylor Hawkins happened in London on Saturday and as you might imagine it was a pretty emotional event. There were a ton of guest performances, but probably the best was Taylor Hawkins’ son Shane sitting in on drums for ‘My Hero’.