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Brooklyn rapper Dusty Locane has found himself behind bars.The drill artist turned himself in on Nov. 30 and has now pleaded guilty to two charges of criminal possession of a weapon, in connection with crimes committed in 2019 and 2020, per Billboard. The charges come with a mandatory minimum sentence of one year and a maximum sentence of three years.The 23-year-old shared the news on Nov. 24, telling his fans and followers that he has, “Been fightin cases for damn near 4 .”Locane has still remained active online and in…

Continuing its love affair with fat tires, oddly-named e-mobility company Cyrusher has recently launched a new flagship – an all-terrain ebike called the Ranger that sports full suspension, a 1,200-W Bafang motor and a 50-mile battery.The company's somewhat strange name is a mashup of cycling and rusher, and it was founded by entrepreneur Harry Xie in 2014 to "bring high-quality, head-turning, e-bikes to riders at an affordable price."The Ranger is powered by a 750-watt rear-hub Bafang motor (1,200-W peak) that produces a…

The James Webb Space Telescope unveiled its latest image of celestial majesty on Wednesday, an ethereal hourglass of orange and blue dust being shot out from a newly forming star at its center.The colorful clouds are only visible in infrared light, so had never been seen before being captured by Webb's Near-Infrared Camera (NIRCam), NASA and the European Space Agency said in a statement.The very young star, known as protostar L1527, is hidden in darkness by the edge of a rotating disk of gas at the neck of the…

One of the more poetic aspects of the universe is that frighteningly powerful and raging forces can sculpt objects of graceful symmetry and beauty. And, as an added bonus, such forces may also lend a hand in our own existence. WR 140 is a binary star system, meaning two stars orbiting one another, some 5,400 light-years from Earth. Both stars are absolute beasts, blasting out fierce amounts of light, but across that astronomical distance their brilliance is diminished to naked-eye invisibility. However, the James Webb…

Tom Cruise might have ruled this year’s box office following his triumphantly successful sequel Top Gun: Maverick, but a far more surprising twist of events has occurred concerning one of the star’s worst-reviewed efforts. International audiences are breathing new life into the desiccated cadaver of Universal’s The Mummy, the “first” movie in the aborted attempt to set up a shared universe of the studio’s Universal Monsters properties. The film is also, arguably, the least-liked theatrical effort of Cruise’s…

If you follow Kwengface on Instagram, then you’ll know that he was over in New York late last year, connecting with the locals and clearly working on something. Today, we get to see at least some of the fruits from that trip as the UK drill star shares new single “Step Out”, a collab with Brooklyn driller Dusty Locane.Produced by London’s Gotcha, “Step Out” is a slightly slower one than we’re used to from the two rappers—bringing out a more commanding, swaggering flow from the pair—but it’s still as rowdy and energetic as…

A NASA spacecraft on Mars is headed for a dusty demise.The Insight lander is losing power because of all the dust on its solar panels. NASA said Tuesday it will keep using the spacecraft's seismometer to register marsquakes until the power peters out, likely in July. Then flight controllers will monitor InSight until the end of this year, before calling everything off.“There really hasn't been too much doom and gloom on the team. We're really still focused on operating the spacecraft,” said Jet Propulsion Laboratory's…

What blows through the Sahara doesn’t stay in the Sahara. The vast African desert regularly burps up clouds of dust that fly into Europe, turning snow-capped mountains orange. They travel clear across the Atlantic Ocean, fertilizing the Amazon rain forest with phosphorus. The stuff can even reach the United States. But for all their bluster, the Sahara’s dust emissions—and the grime from any other desert region—are not well accounted for in climate models. While satellites can track the plumes as they move around the…