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If you’ve been trying to get your hands on the PS5 console, let’s take a look at how BOTS can derail your plans. People have been raving about the console since it was announced in November 2020, but obtaining it appears to be a near-impossible task. Yes, the global pandemic has made matters even worse, thanks to chip shortages and organized efforts to obtain consoles in large quantities, but the aggravating situation continues to this day. The bots are programmed in Python and simulate how a human would buy a console on the internet. Programmers use their code to instruct…

Many MCU fans were alarmed when Tom Holland told Entertainment Weekly in October that the cast of Spider-Man: No Way Home was treated “like the end of the franchise” during filming. Holland’s contract is slated to expire after the forthcoming Spider-Man film, so it made sense. However, Amy Pascal, the producer, confirmed to Fandango that Holland would reprise his Spider-Man costume. Pascal stated that this was not the last film made with Marvel and Holland, emphasizing that this was not the final Spider-Man film. He went on to say that this isn’t the final film in the Marvel Cinematic Universe…

The House will soon be moving ahead on Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer’s China-targeted $250 billion U.S. Innovation and Competition Act (USICA), designed to preserve a competitive technological edge over China through the injection of tens of billions of taxpayer dollars for various initiatives, including U.S. semiconductor manufacturing and “buy American” requirements for federally funded infrastructure projects. Chinese officials have warned that reprisals are coming, should the bill become law. Those reprisals may include deliberate disruptions in imported parts’ supplies for U.S. manufacturers and curbs on Chinese purchases of U.S. exports. With supply chains already strained to the breaking point,…

Jack Dorsey will step down from his chief executive position at Twitter. Twitter announced the transition on Monday and confirmed that Parag Agrawal, the social media platform’s current chief technology officer, will take over the CEO role. Dorsey made a statement addressing his decision to leave the social media company: “I’ve decided to leave Twitter because I believe the company is ready to move on from its founders. My trust in Parag as Twitter’s CEO is deep. His work over the past 10 years has been transformational. I’m deeply grateful for his skill, heart, and soul. It’s his time to…

Former NY gov Andrew Cuomo is collecting just over $4,200 in pension checks amid his scandals and accusations. A spokesman for the New York comptroller’s office said: “Andrew M. Cuomo’s gross monthly retirement benefit with the New York State and Local Retirement System has been finalized and is $4,219.11. He received his first pension payment in October of 2021.” The former Governor faces a charge for a misdemeanor crime in Albany, stemming from the s-xual misconduct scandal that forced Cuomo to resign earlier this year. Cuomo also faces allegations that he improperly used Executive Chamber staff to write his book…

Former President Donald Trump criticized Biden administration on FOX Business’s “Varney & Co.” on Friday, addressing his successor’s handling of the energy policies, rising inflation, the withdrawal from Afghanistan, and the crisis at the southern border. The former President said that Biden “lied so much” ahead of the election, noting that Biden shut down the Keystone Pipeline nearly immediately after taking office when he had previously signaled that he would consider keeping the project going. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5InzccRssnE He also pointed out that the energy policies of the Biden administration are directly contributing to the rising inflation: “What’s happening with energy, nobody’s…

Todd McMurtry, a lawyer who represented former Covington Catholic High School student Nicholas Sandmann said that Kyle Rittenhouse could potentially have a defamation case against President Biden over a tweet suggesting Rittenhouse was a White supremacist. McMurtry said Biden could be held accountable for the September 30, 2020 social media post weeks before he was elected. “There’s no other way to put it: the President of the United States refused to disavow white supremacists on the debate stage last night,” was the tweet Biden posted back then. Biden was not president at the time of the tweet, meaning he would…

Maurene Comey, the daughter of former FBI director James Comey, is one of the three lead prosecutors on the child trafficking case against Ghislaine Maxwell, whose trial is scheduled to begin Monday. Maurene’s taken on major cases before Maxwell’s trial, such as the prosecution of Natalie Edwards, a self-proclaimed Treasury Department whistleblower, Robert Hadden, a gynecologist accused of abusing dozens of young women and she was also one of the lead prosecutors in the case against Jeffrey Epstein before he allegedly killed himself in August 2019 while awaiting trial. Maurene Comey joined the office in 2015 and she is listed…

The first trailer for Bel-Air, the Fresh Prince reboot, has arrived, and it features an exciting recreation of the famous theme song from the original. The teaser trailer only includes a few selected lyrics from the original theme song rather than the entire song. It’s also uncertain whether this will be the show’s theme song or just a promotional piece for Bel-Air. T.J. Brady and Rasheed Newson, the show’s creators, noted in a recent press statement that Bel-Air was always a story that honored the strength and love of the Black family and that they had decided to keep faithful…

Despite recent controversies around these two comedians, Louis CK and Dave Chappelle have both been nominated for Grammy Awards this year. CK’s show “Sincerely Louis CK” is nominated in the Best Comedy Album category, while Chapelle’s collaboration with the poet Amir Sulaiman, 8:46, is nominated for Best Spoken Word Album. In 2018, five women who worked with CK in the past, have claimed inappropriate behavior by CK, including that he did something lewd in front of female comedians. Louis confirmed the claims were true. After that, he released a surprise special in April last year, joking about the incident at…

Louis Santiago, of the Newark Police Department, has been charged with reckless vehicular homicide and desecrating human remains as he allegedly hit a man with his personal car and took the body home where he discussed what to do with his mother. fter Santiago had completed a shift early on November 1st, he was driving his personal Honda Accord to a friend’s house around 3 am northbound on the Garden State Highway, he traveled into the right shoulder and struck Damian Z. Dymka, a 29-old-year-old nurse from Bergen County. Dymka was walking against traffic in a werewolf costume, he said.…

An unidentified LAFD employee was served with a noncompliance letter from the fire department after which he allegedly pulled down his pants, wiped his buttocks with it and left it on the ground. The firefighter is currently under investigation after his unusual response to the city’s vaccine mandate, which allegedly occurred at Fire Station 69 in Pacific Palisades. “Terminable offense,” were the words to describe this incident used by the Los Angeles Stentorians, which represents African American firefighters in the city. “The LA City Stentorians are sickened and disgusted by this horrific display of unprofessionalism,” the organization said in a…

Marjorie Taylor Greene has nominated 18-year-old Kyle Rittenhouse to be awarded the Congressional Gold Medal after a jury found him not guilty on all counts. Rittenhouse had been charged with homicide, attempted homicide and reckless endangerment for killing two men and wounding a third with an AR-style semi-automatic rifle in the summer of 2020 during protests over the shooting of Jacob Blake, by a Kenosha police officer. But the teenager was acquitted of all charges on November 19 this year after testifying he acted in self-defense in the deadly Kenosha shootings. A then-17-year-old former police youth cadet, Rittenhouse said that…

Despite previously criticizing former President Donald Trump for banning travel from China in 2020, President Joe Biden has now imposed his own travel ban amid coronavirus fears from South Africa and several other countries. The Biden administration is restricting travel into the United States from several African countries in response to a new strain of the coronavirus known as the Omicron variant. The countries on which this ban will be applied are South Africa, Botswana, Zimbabwe, Namibia, Lesotho, Eswatini, Mozambique and Malawi. This is what Joe Biden tweeted as a presidential candidate last year the day after Trump imposed travel…

Vice President Kamala Harris went on a four-day diplomatic trip to Paris last week and spent around $500 on cookware in a Parisian shop amid U.S. economic uncertainty and rising inflation. Harris reportedly dropped 516 euros on pots and pans at high-end cookware store E. Dehillerin, which is located outside of the world-famous Louvre museum. The vice president brought home a serving dish costing around $375, a frying pan around $160, and other kitchenware items including a porcelain egg dish and a copper cleaner, according to the store, which disclosed the amount of the purchase to the Washington Free Beacon.…

A GoFundMe page aiming to raise $5 million to bail out an ex-con suspected of killing six people when he drove through a Wisconsin Christmas parade was removed from the site. The fundraiser for Darrell Brooks came amid anger that he’d even been offered bail, with prosecutors acknowledging he was free to crash through Waukesha revelers after being released on an “inappropriately low” bond for another suspected vehicle attack earlier this month. According to screenshots initially posted by Law Enforcement Today, the fundraising campaign insisted Brooks was a victim of a “racist” legal system, using hashtags such as #RacismIsReal and…

A man who allegedly smuggled copies of Netflix’s hit series “Squid Game” in North Korea has been sentenced to death by firing squad, according to a report. This man smuggled copies of the show on USB drives from China into North Korea, despite efforts by North Korean authorities to keep it out of the country, where foreign media is banned. “Squid Game has been able to enter the country on memory storage devices such as USB flash drives and SD cards, which are smuggled in by ship, and then make their way inland. They say that the content is similar…

Donald Trump slammed the opposing lawyers and claimed Kyle Rittenhouse was subjected to “prosecutorial misconduct” “He’s a really good young guy,” said Trump.” Just left Mar-a-Lago a little while ago, and he should never have been put through that. That was prosecutorial misconduct, and it’s happening all over the United States right now with the Democrats.” Trump also added: “[Rittenhouse] should not have had to suffer through a trial for that. He was going to be dead if he didn’t pull that trigger, that guy that put the gun to his head in one-quarter of a second he was going…

Steve Burton, an award-winning soap opera actor, has been dismissed from ABC’s “General Hospital” after refusing to take the COVID-19 vaccine, according to an Instagram video he posted on Tuesday. Jason Morgan was played by Burton, who has been on and off the show since 1992. In a video posted on Instagram, the star stated that he had applied his medical and religious exemptions, but both were denied, adding that meant hurting his personal liberty. Nobody should lose their livelihood over this, he concluded. The cast of “General Hospital” was obliged to get COVID-19 vaccinated by November 1, making it…

President Joe Biden’s administration plans to require nonresident travelers crossing U.S. borders, such as emergency and government officials and truck drivers, to get the COVID vaccine beginning January 22. According to a senior administration official, the requirement, which the White House first announced in October, aligns the rules for essential travelers with those that went into effect earlier this month for leisure travelers when the United States reopened its borders to fully vaccinated individuals. Passengers who use the ferry to enter will also have to comply with the rule. On the condition of anonymity, the official spoke to The Associated…