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On Jan. 28, 1986, the Space Shuttle Challenger experienced a malfunction shortly after liftoff that cost the lives of the seven crew members on board. Now, a piece of the doomed spacecraft has been found on the ocean floor off the coast of Florida.

A documentary crew working on a television show for the History Channel discovered the underwater artifact while looking for airplane wreckage. In a statement on Thursday, NASA said it had reviewed the footage and confirmed the section came from Challenger. The loss of Challenger, and later Columbia in 2003, spurred NASA to improve its safety efforts.

History Channel shared a preview on Thursday of the show that will delve into the artifact’s discovery. It will air as part of the series The Bermuda Triangle: Into Cursed Watersthough the piece of Challenger was not found in the Bermuda Triangle, a region of ocean with an urban-legend-level reputation for ship and aircraft disappearances.

The footage shows divers clearing sand away from the artifact as fish swim over it. The segment is measured in at about 20 feet (6 meters) long and is made up of a series of 8-inch (20 centimeters) tiles. “I think we need to talk to NASA,” one of the divers says at the end of the clip. The Bermuda Triangle: Into Cursed Waters will air on History Channel on Tuesday, Nov. 22.

NASA didn’t specify which part of the shuttle the section came from, but the thermal tiles appear to be a

WhatsApp is back online after a major two-hour outage

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WhatsApp went down in a major outage affecting the communications app for two hours today. The service started experiencing issues at around 3AM ET, with users greeted with a “connecting” message. WhatsApp web also showed a “make sure your computer has an active internet connection” error. The issues affected users globally, and were resolved around 5AM ET.

“We’re aware that some people are currently having trouble sending messages and we’re working to restore WhatsApp for everyone as quickly as possible,” said Meta spokesperson Joshua Breckman in an initial statement to The Verge.

This was the first major WhatsApp outage since the service went down as part of a massive outage that also took down Instagram, Messenger, Oculus, and Facebook last year. That outage took nearly six hours before it was resolved and WhatsApp was back online. Meta, known as Facebook at the time, said that major outage was due to a configuration change to its routers.

WhatsApp outages are still relatively rare, but they have major implications for communications worldwide as the service is used by more than two billion people each month. When WhatsApp went down last year, Brazilian workers’ jobs went with it.

Update, October 25th 10:05AM ET: WhatsApp is now back online.

Twitter to start charging $20 per month for verification

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Now that he owns Twitter, Elon Musk has given employees their first ultimatum: Meet his deadline to introduce paid verification on Twitter or pack up and leave.

The directive is to change Twitter Blue, the company’s optional, $4.99 a month subscription that unlocks additional features, into a more expensive subscription that also verifies users, according to people familiar with the matter and internal correspondence seen by The Verge. Twitter is currently planning to charge $19.99 for the new Twitter Blue subscription. Under the current plan, verified users would have 90 days to subscribe or lose their blue checkmark. Employees working on the project were told on Sunday that they need to meet a deadline of November 7th to launch the feature or they will be fired.

Musk has been clear in the months leading up to his acquisition that he wanted to revamp how Twitter verifies accounts and handles bots. on Sunday, he tweeted: “The whole verification process is being revamped right now.”

The Twitter Blue subscription launched widely almost a year ago as a way to view ad-free articles from some publishers and make other tweaks to the app, such as a different color home screen icon. In the few quarters that Twitter reported earnings as a public company after that debut, advertising remains the vast majority of its revenue. Musk is keen on growing subscriptions to become half of the company’s overall revenue.

Update October 30th at 9:25PM ET: Added detail that existing verified users will

Guy Known for Playing Dead on TikTok Lands Role Playing Dead on ‘CSI: Vegas’

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Josh Nalley’s dedication to playing dead has breathed life into a new career — as a TV actor.

After curating a macabre TikTok account filled with numerous videos of himself looking “un-alive,” the 42-year-old Kentucky restaurant manager will appear as a dead man on an upcoming episode of CSI: Vegas.

“I want to thank CSI: Vegas for casting me,” Nalley says in an appreciatory TikTok videos. “It’s truly an amazing experience.”

Nalley has built up an enviable following on his TikTok account @living_dead_josh, where he regularly posts videos of himself looking lifeless. In the vids, the bearded, casually dressed Nailey lies motionless — often in wooded areas but also in swimming pools, beds and bars. The currently account has more than 118,000 followers, and Nalley’s videos have gotten more than 4 million likes all told.

“For the past year ya’ll have been commenting and liking and sharing and following me,” Nalley says in the TikTok. “Without ya’ll, I couldn’t have done it.” He caps off the video by spraying a bottle of champagne.

Nalley told the Louisville Courier Journal he decided to go full possum after seeing a TikToker post about hot sauce, attracting the attention of several hot-sauce companies.

“I thought if I was creative enough playing an un-alive person, I could get the attention of a television show or a movie production company,” he told the newspaper, “and how about that, it worked.”

CBS liked what they saw in Nalley’s videos and offered

What Happens in Our Brains on a Frightful Halloween Night?

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It’s the middle of October — and you know what that means. Millions of people are watching reruns of The Shining, tiptoeing through haunted houses and willfully participating in what basically amounts to light psychological distress. During the spooky season, we crave fear.

On the face of it, deliberately choosing to be scared seems rather unusual. Aren’t our bodies supposed to recognize fear as a negative sensation so we know when to arm ourselves against threats?

To help explain such dissonance, I contacted a trauma specialist who offered some insight into what, exactly, happens in our brain when we decide to seek the sensation of fright.

“A big part of the draw is there’s an adrenaline rush,” explained Arianna Galligher, associate director of the Trauma Recovery Center at Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center.

Boo! Now, what just happened in your brain?

At the exact moment we feel fear — elicited from a jump scare in a horror film, for instance — our brain releases a cocktail of endorphins and adrenaline. That mixture of hormones, Galligher says, is similar to what the brain sends out during moments of excitement. Of course, we enjoy in excitement. That’s why fear often feels good.

“Fear and excitement are two sides of the same coin,” she said. “And for a lot of people, that sort of jolt is exciting even if fear is an ingredient.”

Short-lived terror can also offer a uniquely satisfying experience. When we’re purely excited or happy, Galligher says, our body

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NASA Confirms Discovery of Space Shuttle Challenger Disaster Ruins in Ocean

WhatsApp is back online after a major two-hour outage

Twitter to start charging $20 per month for verification

Guy Known for Playing Dead on TikTok Lands Role Playing Dead on ‘CSI: Vegas’

What Happens in Our Brains on a Frightful Halloween Night?

Boo! Now, what just happened in your brain?