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Set Your Alarm Now to Watch This Weekend’s Dazzling Meteor Shower
If you’re willing to get up early on Sunday, you can enjoy a fascinating view of the night sky.
If you’re looking for something breathtaking to do this weekend, set an alarm clock for early Sunday and look to the sky. The Eta Aquarid meteor shower is set to peak this weekend, with the potential for dozens of meteors each hour to shoot across the sky in the predawn hours of Sunday morning. While the number of meteors visible per hour will depend on where you’re located, even those in less-than-ideal conditions should see up to 10 meteors per hour.
The Eta Aquarid meteor shower occurs annually between April 15 and May 27, peaking in early May. Meteors are leftover comet particles that come from broken asteroids. The Eta Aquarid meteor shower is created from dust grains shed by Halley’s Comet when it enters the inner solar system.
According to NASA, the Eta Aquarid meteors are notable for their speed, with the possibility of meteors in the stream hitting a maximum rate of 148,000 miles per minute as they reach the Earth’s atmosphere. Their speed allows them to shed debris as they burn up in the atmosphere leaving what NASA calls «trains» in their wake. Those trains are streaks of light that can last in the sky for minutes after the meteors have passed by.
How to watch the Eta Aquarid meteor shower
As with any other meteor shower, getting the most out of the Eta Aquarid viewing experience has everything to do with location. Those in the southern hemisphere will be able to see more meteors, but those north of the equator will still get a decent amount.
When to get up?
Timing matters in viewing the Eta Aquarids. While they’ll technically be visible all night, viewers will have the best chance of seeing them in the predawn hours on Sunday morning when the sky is darkest. And since the moon will be 14% full that night, light from the moon shouldn’t disrupt viewing.
The nice thing about the Eta Aquarid meteor shower is that it will be visible throughout the night. However, several factors can affect when is the best time to view the shower, including time and cloud cover. Keep an eye on your local weather forecast to determine how cloudy it’s expected to be in your area, and consider that the darkest periods of night usually occur after midnight, leading up to dawn.
What to look for?
You’re looking for fiery streaks shooting across the sky. Think of meteors as dusty, leftover particles from broken asteroids. As asteroids travel around the sun, dust breaks away and take their own path through space. As Earth passes through those dusty areas, comprised of meteors, the meteors collide with the Earth’s atmosphere and disintegrate. From our vantage point on Earth, we see the meteors blow up in a fiery event that creates streaks across the sky.
Leave the city behind
Speaking of light pollution, the chances of seeing the Eta Aquarids when looking to the sky over a big city is nearly zero. Instead, it’s best to get as far away from city lights that pollute the night sky. NASA also recommends lying on your back and facing east for the best chance of seeing as many meteors as possible.
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Little Caesars Wants ChatGPT to Order Your Pizza for You
You can personalize your pie and place your order without leaving the chatbot.
When it comes to building the perfect pizza, you need perfectly structured crust, quality cheese, well-seasoned sauce and fresh, delicious toppings. Oh, and artificial intelligence, naturally.
Or at least that’s what Little Caesars is saying.
Starting today, you can order Little Caesars through a new app inside ChatGPT. OpenAI’s chatbot can customize and order pizzas, or you can use ChatGPT to receive recommendations based on your budget, preferences, dietary restrictions or the number of people you need to serve.
«Today’s consumers are turning to Gen AI as part of how they search for everything, including where to get their next meal,» Greg Hamilton, chief marketing officer at Little Caesars, said in a statement. «We recognize this shift and want to meet our customers where they already are and be the go-to for their pizza occasions. The process is as natural and intuitive as having a conversation. It’s not just about technology for technology’s sake — it’s about making life a little easier for people who love great pizza.»
Read also: I Had ChatGPT Order Me a Pizza. This Could Change Everything
How ordering a pizza with ChatGPT works
To get started, you’ll need to launch ChatGPT on your desktop or mobile device. On the ChatGPT interface, go to the Apps menu and select Little Caesars. You will need to connect your accounts by signing into your Little Caesars account or creating one. From there, you can get started with ordering.
You can simply type in something like, «Pizzas for five people with no meat,» and you’ll get personalized recommendations for pizzas and sides that match your preferences. From there, you can tailor your order further by swapping toppings, adjusting amounts or adding an order of cookie dough brownies.
Once you review your order, you can checkout through the Little Caesars app and then your order will go to the nearest location for you to pick up when ready. You can also schedule an order ahead of time and track your order in real-time through the app.
The new ordering function is now available across all Little Caesars locations in the US, and many locations in Mexico and Canada.
Not interested in using AI? The Little Caesars app and website are still available, or you can always pick up the phone and call.
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Don’t Lose Your Texts: How to Move Away From Samsung Messages Before It Shuts Down
Samsung is deactivating its long-standing Messages app in July. Here’s what to do next.
Samsung is closing the book on its proprietary texting platform this summer. After years of slowly phasing out the software in favor of a more unified experience, the company is finally pulling the plug on its Messages app this July. While many Galaxy owners have already been using Google’s version for years, those holding onto the legacy interface now have a firm deadline to migrate their conversations before the service goes dark.
On a page with information about the switch, Samsung points to instructions on how to swap over to Google’s Messages app, including for phones that are still on Android 12 and Android 13. Samsung has historically preinstalled its own Messages app on Galaxy phones, but began transitioning toward Google Messages as early as 2021.
To encourage people to switch to Google Messages, Samsung’s instructions list new features offered by Google Messages, like RCS-enabled texting for features like typing indicators, easier group chats and sending higher-quality images. Google’s Messages app also has AI-powered spam detection and spam filters, multi-device access to messages and some built-in Gemini AI features. It’s also the app that most Android phones use as their default texting app, including Samsung’s more recent Galaxy S26. There are other SMS texting app alternatives in the Google Play Store if you don’t want to use the one made by Google.
Samsung has not said when exactly in July messaging will no longer work in the app. A Samsung representative didn’t immediately respond to a request for comment. Once the app is deactivated, only messaging to emergency services will work on Samsung Messages.
While Samsung did stop including it as the default texting app in 2021, it wasn’t until 2024 that Samsung stopped preinstalling the texting app alongside Google Messages. The Galaxy S26 can’t download the Samsung Messages app, and other phones won’t be able to download it after the app’s July sunset.
Samsung said users of Android 11 or lower aren’t affected by the end of service, but would also likely benefit from switching to a supported texting app like Google Messages. To switch to Google Messages, the company asks users to download the app if it’s not already installed and to set it as the default SMS app when prompted after launching it.
The post also notes that anyone using an older Galaxy Watch that runs on Samsung’s Tizen operating system will no longer have access to their full conversation history since these watches cannot use Google Messages. Samsung said that they will still be able to read and send text messages, but the company’s newer watches (Galaxy Watch 4 and later) that run WearOS will still have access to full conversations.
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New AT&T Elite 2.0 Phone Plan Boosts Wireless Hotspot and Data Performance
For customers willing to pay for it, the new top plan offers more high-speed data and performance than the former one.
Only a few weeks after overhauling its unlimited phone plans, AT&T has added a new plan to the top of the lineup that offers more data and performance — for a higher price. The AT&T Elite 2.0 plan is available now.
For a single line, Elite 2.0 costs $110 (plus taxes and fees). As more lines are added, the per-line price goes down. AT&T customers can mix and match plans on an account, but if we assume everyone is signing up for the Elite 2.0 plan, the costs break down like this:
• One line: $110
• Two lines: $100 per line, $200 total
• Three lines: $85 per line, $255 total
• Four lines: $75 per line, $300 total
• Five lines: $75 per line, $375 total
To compare it with AT&T’s next-priciest option, the Premium 2.0 plan costs $90 for a single line, or $55 per line on an account with four lines.
What’s included in the AT&T Elite 2.0 plan
For those amounts, the plan includes unlimited high-speed 5G data, prioritized even during network congestion, just like the Premium 2.0 plan, and 250GB of hotspot data (up from 100GB for the other plan). It also includes cellular access for one smartwatch and one tablet per line.
For travelers, Elite 2.0 has unlimited international talk, text and 20GB of high-speed data per month in 210 countries. The Premium 2.0 plan has unlimited talk, text and high-speed data, but only for 20 Latin American countries.
Aside from the data amounts, the Elite 2.0 plan includes AT&T Turbo, a feature normally offered as an add-on that increases data performance for video calling, gaming and streaming on 5G-capable devices. For other plans, AT&T Turbo costs $7 per line per month.
(AT&T Turbo is a separate feature from AT&T Turbo Live, which is designed to boost performance in certain crowded venues such as concerts or sporting events.)
AT&T Elite 2.0 vs Premium 2.0
| Price for 1 line, per month | Price for 4 lines, per month | High-speed data | Mobile hotspot | International Call/Data | AT&T Turbo | |
| AT&T Premium 2.0 | $90 | $220 ($55 per line) | Unlimited | 100GB | Unlimited talk, text and high-speed data in 20 Latin American countries; unlimited texting from US to 200+ countries | Not included |
| AT&T Elite 2.0 | $110 | $300 ($75 per line) | Unlimited | 250GB | Unlimited talk, text and 20GB high-speed data in 210 countries | Included |
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