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Days after Texas Governor Greg Abbott complained that Texas can’t shoot migrants attempting to illegally cross the U.S.-Mexico border, three migrants — a woman and two children — drowned in the Rio Grande river while Texas National Guard “physically barred” U.S. Border Patrol from trying to rescue them. Last week, Texas National Guard took over Shelby Park in Eagle Pass, Texas, after Abbott granted them “full control” of the park without permission from local officials. Since then, the state guard has prohibited…

The strike by the union representing 11,500 writers in the entertainment industry, including film and television, has now commenced. This marks the first writers` strike in 15 years and also the first Hollywood strike of any kind in that time period. As a result of this labor dispute, the shooting of the film ‘Heads of State’, featuring Priyanka Chopra and John Cena, was recently halted. The strike was initiated by the Screen Actors Guild (SAG) after failing to reach a new labor agreement with the Alliance of…

The Webb Space Telescope is on a tear, imaging regions of star formation across the cosmos. Its latest target? The barred spiral galaxy NGC 5068—a bedazzled conglomeration of gas and stars 17 million light-years from Earth.Webb Telescope Images the Pillars of CreationLaunched in December 2021, Webb has been making scientific observations since July 2022. It’s uniquely capable of seeing some of the oldest, most distant light, which it does at infrared wavelengths. Taking data on this ancient light clues astronomers into…

Images via Marvel Studios Just when we thought the ever-expanding franchise had finally been cut a break, the MCU has once again fallen victim to the steady stream of bad luck it’s suffered in 2023. In the definition of taking one step forward but two back, Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3 might have opened to cosmic success but a much-beleaguered upcoming Marvel movie has been hit by yet another blow. Meanwhile, Ryan Reynolds being forbidden from improving Deadpool 3 doesn’t bode well for the Merc’s MCU debut.…

Putting money on uncertain events amounts to wagering and the government's new rules bar online real money games that declare winners based on prediction of the unknown outcome, according to Additional Solicitor General N Venkataraman.Amid attempts by certain industry players to masquerade wagering as a game of skills in the wake of the new rules issued under the Information Technology (IT) Act, the government's senior law officer said that some states are making a mistake in trying to distinguish between a game of skill…

TORONTO—British Columbia is moving to restrict the sale of the diabetes drug Ozempic to Canadian residents after people from the U.S. sought out supplies to lose weight, threatening to send the medicine into shortage.British Columbia’s health ministry said Tuesday it will bar doctors and pharmacists from dispensing the drug to people who don’t live in Canada in coming weeks, once the provincial government amends existing healthcare rules. The ministry is also asking doctors and pharmacists to make sure people are taking…

WWE 2K23 will be in stores on March 14 (if you're getting the Icon Edition), but ahead of that release, we're getting a look at what 2K has planned for the game over the next year. The game studio has released 2K23's entire DLC plan and it's stuffed with some very interesting names--including some legends that have never appeared in a WWE video game before.The downloadable characters will be released over five separate packs between April and August, with the most notable additions being current WWE…

The governors of Wisconsin and North Carolina on Thursday signed orders banning TikTok on government devices due to cyber security concerns, joining other US states and the federal government in prohibiting the use of the popular video app.In addition to banning Chinese-owned TikTok from state devices, Wisconsin Governor Tony Evers said he was banning vendors, products and services from other Chinese companies including Huawei Technologies, Hikvision, Tencent Holdings - the owner of WeChat, ZTE Corp as well as…

Update from CES 2023, Russian exhibitors barred from tech show of gadgets! Read more tech news Good Morning Tech fam, here are some quick tech updates for you to catch on to! What’s New Today: Employees Who Were Laid Off in Bulk by Twitter Are Still Waiting for Severance Offers Two Months Later. Fast-Track Insights: Alex Mashinsky, CEO Of Celsius Network, Is Sued In New York On Charges of Cryptocurrency Fraud. Due to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, CES is not allowing Russian companies to exhibit their products at…

By NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center December 27, 2022Hubble Space Telescope image of the spiral galaxy NGC 6956. Credit: NASA, ESA, and D. Jones (University of California – Santa Cruz); Processing: Gladys Kober (NASA/Catholic University of America)Against an inky black backdrop, the blue swirls of spiral galaxy NGC 6956 stand out radiantly. NGC 6956 is a barred spiral galaxy, a common type of spiral galaxy with a bar-shaped structure of stars in its center. This galaxy exists 214 million light-years away in the…