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BGMI tips: Check the top guns that can help players dominate enemies on the battlefield

BGMI tips: Battle Royale games are best known for their real-time wartime experience which creates interest and thrill in players' minds. Battlegrounds Mobile India (BGMI) is one such game that has been winning hearts ever since the ban was lifted on it. The game attracted millions of new gamers with exciting updates, rewards and new features. Now, if you are someone who is new to the game and wants to learn more about the gaming schemes of real battlefields then you are at the right place. Check out the list of BGMI top…

Dazed And Confused Director Compares Top Gun’s Glen Powell To Ben Affleck Early In His Career: ‘He Just Thought Big’

Back in 1993, acclaimed director Richard Linklater gave audiences Dazed and Confused, one of the best high school movies of all time. Its plot was simple, as it revolved around a group of ‘70s teens and their shenanigans on the last day of school. A lot stars, who would eventually become big names, were a part of the ensemble flick, including Ben Affleck, who played high school bully Fred O’Bannion. Linklater actually believes that Top Gun: Maverick's Glen Powell -- who he's collaborating with for the fourth time on the…

Blood, Guns, and Broken Scooters: Inside the Chaotic Rise and Fall of Bird

In a minivan with the rear seats ripped out, John is chasing one of his 250 electric scooters down a California highway. He finds it 10 miles away, hiding in a bush—a run-and-dump tactic that he says thieves use to test whether anyone will come after them before they take a scooter home. John, not his real name, always gives chase, because his livelihood depends on it. “If I come in too soft, then they say, ‘Oh, this guy, he's a pussy. I could kick his ass.’ So I have to be a little aggressive,” says John, who is well…

Bad Science and Bad Statistics in the Courtroom Convict Innocent People

The city of New York recently witnessed a record payout to George Bell, falsely convicted of murder in 1999, after it emerged prosecutors had deliberately hidden evidence casting doubt on his guilt, giving false statements in court. Bell is the latest in a long line of people, especially Black Americans, unfoundedly convicted. More recently, Jabar Walker and Wayne Gardine were cleared after decades in prison. Conviction integrity units across North America have found serious flaws with many long-standing…

Guns N’ Roses Unveil Raucous New Single ‘The General’

Guns N’ Roses have released a new single, “The General.” The slow-building, guitar-led song marks the rock band’s second track of 2023 following “Perhaps,” which dropped in August. Last month, Guns N’ Roses debuted “The General” live during their two-night stand at Los Angeles’ Hollywood Bowl. The song has been floating around for years. In 2007, Sebastian Bach spoke about the track in an interview, saying, “It’s by far the heaviest metal tune I think I’ve ever heard Axl do, this slow, grinding riff with these…

Danny Masterson Finally Surrenders Guns After Three Years

"Those rifles are enough to take out a school. Those are serious assault rifles,” one of Masterson's Jane Doe victims said after a court hearing Thursday Convicted rapist Danny Masterson finally relinquished his personal stockpile of automatic weapons last week, three years after he was ordered to do so following his 2020 arrest for three counts of forcible rape, his lawyer told a Los Angeles judge Thursday. The disgraced That ‘70s Show actor has been locked up in Los Angeles County jail since

Why John Woo Took a 20-Year Break From Hollywood

John Woo couldn’t miss. The godfather of gun fu, who helmed a number of balletic, bullet-riddled Chinese actions hits — A Better Tomorrow, The Killer, and Hard Boiled among them — before taking his talents to the States, was coming off four consecutive Hollywood smashes. First came the Jean-Claude Van Damme vehicle Hard Target, a play on The Most Dangerous Game; then, John Travolta-starrer Broken Arrow, about a rogue terrorist armed with a nuclear bomb; the face-swapping flick Face/Off, pairing a very game Travolta…

Firearm Forensics Has Proven Reliable in the Courtroom. And in the Lab

Over 10 days in early March 2022, five homeless men were shot in Manhattan and Washington, D.C. Two died. With the extraordinary tool of firearms identification analysis, law enforcement linked every shooting to the same gun.Firearms identification analysis involves the microscopic examination and comparison of fired ammunition samples (typically fired bullets and spent cartridge cases recovered at crime scenes), in relation to each other and to test fires produced from recovered firearms. Qualified firearms examiners can…

Michigan deploys AI to detect guns at state Capitol

Michigan is deploying artificial intelligence (AI) technology to detect guns in the state’s Capitol amid an increase in political violence in recent years. On Monday, Michigan became the first state Capitol in the country to launch the use of the gun detection platform made by ZeroEyes. “As the political climate grows increasingly tumultuous, it’s imperative that we remain vigilant and attuned to our surroundings,” Michigan State Capitol Commission Executive Director Rob Blackshaw said in a press release.…

‘Super pig’ Prairie problem now approaching the U.S. border

An exploding population of hard-to-eradicate "super pigs" in Canada is threatening to spill south of the border, and northern states like Minnesota, North Dakota and Montana are taking steps to stop the invasion.In Canada, the wild pigs roaming Alberta, Saskatchewan and Manitoba pose a new threat.Ryan Brook, a professor at the University of Saskatchewan and one of Canada's leading authorities on the problem, calls feral swine, "the most invasive animal on the planet" and "an ecological train wreck." They are often…