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The recent Helldivers 2 update makes one of the most popular weapons in the game even easier to use with the surprise addition of a new mechanic. Helldivers 2 developers have shadow-dropped an interesting feature for the Quasar Cannon as part of their recent update. The Helldivers 2 patch 01.000.200 was released on April 2nd and it made some significant changes to meta, alongside adding some new planetary hazards. The past few weeks have been quite eventful for Helldivers 2 fans, with the game shattering several records while succumbing to server issues at the same time. While the developers eventually…

A 12-year-old student opened fire at a lower secondary school in southern Finland Tuesday morning, killing one fellow student and seriously wounding two others, police said. All three victims were also 12-years-old.The suspect was later arrested in the Helsinki area with a handgun in his possession, police added.Heavily armed police cordoned off the school, which has some 800 students, in the city of Vantaa, just outside the capital, Helsinki, after receiving a call about a shooting incident at 9:08 a.m. Finnish police at a school where where a 12-year-old student allegedly opened fire and wounded three other pupils, also 12-year-olds,…

During a new interview, Drake claimed that his former Nickelodeon co-star ‘saw what [he] was going through’ at the time when he was assaulted by Brian Peck. Image Credit: Getty Images Drake Bell claims that his former Drake & Josh co-star, Josh Peck, “knew” that he was sexually assaulted. During his Tuesday, April 2, appearance on the “Not Skinny But Not Fat Podcast,” the 37-year-old musician pointed out that Josh, 37, “saw and knew what was going on” with Bell in the early 2000s. “Josh worked on The Amanda Show, and so, he saw and knew what was going on,”…

Judging by the most recent sales report from Mazda, it looks as though the Miata isn’t always the answer. The petite sports car had a weak first quarter of the year considering deliveries plummeted by 45.5 percent compared to Q1 2023. Only 1,411 Americans bought the tossable roadster through March 2024. It was particularly bad for the soft-top version since demand declined by 66 percent to 457 units whereas the hardtop RF went down by 23.5 percent to 954 units. Yes, the RF deliveries were more than double those of the standard Miata. Looking at the bigger picture, the situation…

XRP price is struggling below $0.620. The price must stay above the $0.5680 support to attempt a fresh increase in the near term. XRP is slowly moving lower from the $0.6620 resistance zone. The price is now trading below $0.620 and the 100 simple moving average (4 hours). There is a major bearish trend line forming with resistance near $0.600 on the 4-hour chart of the XRP/USD pair (data source from Kraken). The pair could gain bearish momentum if there is a close below the $0.5680 support. XRP Price Faces Many Hurdles In the past few sessions, XRP price saw…

Mathieu van der Poel’s chances of winning a third Tour of Flanders undoubtedly increased with the devastating crash of Wout van Aert (Visma-Lease A Bike) in Dwars door Vlaanderen this week. But the Dutchman expressed his sympathy both for his Belgian rival and for Lidl-Trek, who lost Jasper Stuyven to a broken collarbone.”[The crash] is particularly unfortunate for the Tour of Flanders, but even more for Wout and Jasper. You live for months towards those important two races and then, just a few days before, you are sidelined. You really don’t wish that on anyone,” Van der Poel said in…

Georgia’s summer is going to sound a bit different — in fact, the last time it sounded like this was in 2011.  This year, a less-commonly seen type of cicada, the periodical cicada, will emerge for the first time in 13 years.  The Great Southern Brood is comprised of millions of cicadas that will emerge during the summer in 12 states across the southeast including Georgia. While southerners are used to hearing cicadas every year, these cicadas look and sound different. They have yellow wings and red eyes and sing different songs.  A unique life cycle Nancy Hinkle is an…

A Bronze Age site in England, housing a ‘richly decorated Roman villa’ from a later period, has revealed a bounty of artifacts and architectural evidence, which includes aisled buildings adorned with painted plaster, mosaics, and ornate tile work. Evolving over time, the complex featured several buildings from the late first and second centuries, with four enormous column or post bases, among the largest from the Roman era in Britain! Medieval Roman Colony Found in Nola: Hub of Arts & Crafts Luxury Bath Spa at Rutland Villa Was a Roman Barn Conversion A Richly Decorated Villa and Ritualistic Artifacts Situated in…

Researchers may have gotten to the root of tea’s soothing effect. The quality of a cup of chai can be enriched by modifying the microbial community that populates the plant’s roots, researchers report February 15 in Current Biology. The secret is to inoculate roots with bacteria that boost the synthesis of the amino acid theanine. There’s something in tea that helps us wind down, says Zhenbiao Yang, a plant cell biologist at the Shenzhen Institute of Advanced Technology in China. Some studies suggest that the “chemical that helps you sleep is theanine,” he says. What’s more, theanine infuses tea with…

By Matthew Perrone | Associated Press WASHINGTON — Anti-smoking groups sued the U.S. government Tuesday over a long-awaited ban on menthol cigarettes, which has been idling at the White House for months. The lawsuit is the latest effort to force the government to ban menthols, which are disproportionately used by Black smokers and young people. It comes amid growing concerns from advocates that the federal plan could be derailed by election-year politics. Health officials under President Joe Biden initially targeted last August to publish the rule eliminating the minty flavor. Late last year, White House officials said they would take…