‘Our president is listening’: Handful of Black MAGA activists in Chicago catch Trump’s eye Chicago Tribune Pritzker says ‘action will be met with a response’ after Trump threatens to send National Guard to Chicago Fox News ICE asks for access to Chicago-area Navy base to assist operations The Washington Post Trump’s planned Chicago blitz would use naval base to house ICE agents, possibly …
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Black Ops 6 content removed from Black Ops 7 to maintain “authentic” CoD experience
Originally, all content from Black Ops 6 was planned to carry over to Black Ops 7 so that people could maintain their progress between games. That decision has since been reverted. For most games, this would seem like a huge win. People who already have heavily customized their guns would get to keep their favorite weapon, and people who bought …
Read More »Warped spacetime with surprise ‘double-zoom’ reveals radiation around distant supermassive black hole
Thanks to a theory put forward by Albert Einstein over 100 years ago and a happy coincidence, astronomers have discovered radiation being pumped out from the core of a quasar — within which a supermassive black hole lurks. The team, led by Matus Rybak of Leiden University, made the discovery while hunting for cold gas in the galaxy RXJ1131-1231, an …
Read More »Astrophysicists Find No ‘Hair’ on Black Holes
In 2012, physicists showed that this paradox is tightly linked to the nature of the event horizon. They’d known since the 1970s that black holes emit radiation, and that this radiation probably somehow carries the scrambled information about the stuff that fell into the hole. Now they imagined what would happen if an astronaut who was about to cross the …
Read More »Trump’s D.C. Law Enforcement Takeover Has Black Parents on Edge – The New York Times
Trump’s D.C. Law Enforcement Takeover Has Black Parents on Edge The New York Times D.C. students return to school as the city remains on edge amid Trump’s takeover NBC News Schools reopen in DC with parents anxious over Trump’s armed patrols AP News For some in D.C., first day of school to look different under Trump crackdown The Washington Post ‘Leave our kids alone’: …
Read More »Black Ops 7 drops goofy skins for realism
In the wake of the explosively popular Battlefield 6 Open Beta weekends that ran on Xbox Series X|S, Windows PC, and PS5 throughout August, one aspect of its larger competitor FPS Call of Duty that’s come under quite a bit of scrutiny is its penchant for goofy skins that feel incredibly out of place in a military-themed shooter. With Battlefield …
Read More »Black Ops 7’ Will Make BO6 Players Leave Their Silly Skins Behind
If you want an indication that Battlefield 6 does have Call of Duty a bit spooked this year, look no further than a recent update from the game that seems to fall in line with that release. Even before Battlefield 6, there have been complaints that Call of Duty was pushing things too far with its Fortnite-ish crossover skins, which …
Read More »Call of Duty Dev Commits to Sensible Skins in Black Ops 7 Following Strong Community Backlash
Call of Duty: Black Ops 7 developer Treyarch has committed to ensuring the premium skins it releases for the game “fit the Black Ops identity”, following the fierce community backlash to the celebrity outfits that have appeared in Black Ops 6. The team said in a Call of Duty blog post that it hears the feedback from the hardcore player …
Read More »LIGO, facing threats of closure, more than doubles its black hole haul
Sign up for the Starts With a Bang newsletter Travel the universe with Dr. Ethan Siegel as he answers the biggest questions of all. It’s amazing how far we’ve come, scientifically, in the span of only ten years. Back in 2015, humanity didn’t know whether a core prediction of Einstein’s General Relativity — the existence of energy-carrying gravitational waves — …
Read More »Amid Battlefield 6’s Commitment to ‘Gritty Realism,’ Activision Makes Shock Call of Duty Change for Black Ops 7: ‘We Hear the Feedback’
It sounds like all change for Call of Duty with the release of Black Ops 7, amid pressure from Battlefield 6 and its commitment to “gritty realism.” Call of Duty’s foray into goofy skins territory is not a new phenomena, although recent releases have certainly amped up the conversation around them. With the likes of Beavis and Butt-Head and American …
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