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Schoolboy, 14, dubbed ‘El Chapito’, arrested after eight people shot dead at family birthday party
A BOY of 14 has been arrested in connection with a birthday party massacre that saw eight killed and seven hurt, including children.
The young teen, nicknamed “El Chapito”, allegedly rode up to the family celebration on a motorbike and opened fire on the attendees in Mexico City on January 22.
Eight other members of the gang were arrested alongside ‘El Chapito’[/caption]
Notorious drug kingpin “El Chapo” on his way to the US following his capture in 2017[/caption]
The boy – who has not been identified – was arrested with an alleged accomplice, known as “El Ñoño”, Mexico officials reported on Thursday.
The killing spree took place in the low-income neighbourhood of Chimalhuacan in Mexico City, while a party was taking place.
The attackers killed eight people and injured five adults and two children, including a 3-year-old.
The federal police have also arrested seven of members of the same gang on drug-related charges in a swooping 12-hour sting operation in the suburbs of Mexico city last weekend.
The motive behind the birthday party killings has not yet been disclosed, but drug cartels in Mexico are known for carrying out contract killings or inflicting ruthless retribution on rivals and enemies.
Child killers are not uncommon in Mexico, which is still reeling from news of the crimes of “El Ponchis”.
The 14-year-old, known only as Edgar, admitted to participating in at least four decapitations in 2010.
However, the young boy claimed to have been kidnapped aged 11 and forced into committing the hideous crimes on behalf of the Cartel of the South Pacific.
For now, “El Chapito” has been transferred to a specialised criminal justice facility for adolescents.
The boy’s nickname is a reference to notorious Mexican drug kingpin Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman – the former leader of the vicious Sinaloa cartel.
Guzman was arrested and extradited to the US in 2017. He was convicted in 2019 of charges including drug trafficking, money laundering and weapons-related offenses. He is now serving a life sentence in Colorado.
The drug lord’s son, Ovidio Guzman, was captured in a dramatic operation led by Mexican security forces in January.
His arrests sparked all-out-war as a wave of violence ripped across Sinaloa state. The army were forced onto the streets to fight rampaging drug cartel members.
At least 30 people were killed amid the bloody clashes between the military and cartel gunmen.
The news of the arrest of “El Chapito” comes as waves of gang violence rock Mexico and tourists are warned to avoid travel to the country.
Just as university students flock to Mexico for spring break, a surge of brutal slayings and kidnappings have been taking place leading many to abandon their trips.
YouTube rolls out dubbed video feature for creators to upload multi-language audio tracks
With over 2 billion monthly logged-in users from around the world, its almost surprising to realize that this feature didn’t already exist. But, now it’s here.
YouTube is officially rolling out its new multi-language audio tracks feature to its global creator user base. This feature, which was previously in its testing phase and only available to select creators, allows YouTubers to upload multiple different audio tracks to a single video. This provides content creators with the ability to offer dubbed video content, with the uploaded audio tracks providing their viewers’ with the option to watch in their primary language.
According to YouTube, among the small test group of creators that the company has been working with, the results have been very positive. YouTube says that creators saw that more than 15 percent of their views came from dubbed videos being watched in a language other than the channel’s primary one just last month. An average of two million hours of dubbed video was watched daily on the platform in January. And this is among the just over 3,500 dubbed videos that were uploaded to the platform in that month. As of now, around 40 different languages have been featured throughout YouTube dubbed videos.
To really emphasize what a big feature this is, YouTube has also released a video sitting down with with its most popular creator, Mr. Beast, to detail his experience working with dubbed videos as part of the initial test group.
Creators have uploaded dubbed video content before this feature was available. But, previously, these YouTubers would have needed to upload a new, separate video for each language option. Now, though, these language options can be offered on the original video upload.
If you’re a viewer, you can check if your favorite video has multi-language offerings by just clicking on a video’s settings (the gear icon) in the YouTube player. This is where you’d normally choose options regarding video playback quality, but you’ll also see a new audio track feature on dubbed videos too. In parentheses, YouTube lets viewers know how many language options are offered and users can select one from the dropdown menu.
Creators can upload multi-language audio tracks from within the Subtitles Editor tool for the specific video. YouTubers will also be able to go back through their library and upload multi-language audio tracks for all their existing content too.
YouTube first launched its subtitles and closed captioning feature for videos way back in 2008. Nearly 15 years later, users can now listen to content in their primary language too. While creators do need to produce those alternative multi-language tracks themselves right now, it does seem like only a matter of time before there’s an automated way to create them too.
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Popular show dubbed ‘the new Bridgerton’ axed after just one series – leaving fans gutted
A HUGE show that was earmarked to be the world’s next Bridgerton has been cruelly axed leaving fans devastated.
Vampire Academy will be coming to an end after just one season.
Vampire Academy has been AXED[/caption]
Peacock have called time on the show already[/caption]
Streaming service Peacock has decided to ditch the show three months on from the first season finale despite looking promising to be the next big thing.
The show’s creator, Julie Plec, previously built up the hype around the programme by teasing that it was a concoction of both The Hunger Games and Bridgerton.
One of the show’s leading stars, Jonetta Kaiser, has spoken out after the cancellation admitting that it has created a ‘scary’ experience for actors.
In a lengthy post on Instagram, she wrote: “So Vampire Academy has been cancelled..
“The thing is, if you’re an actor, you know that although this is such an exciting time to be part of the industry because of all the countless streaming services aka opportunities, it’s also scary because most shows now get the boot after just one season.
“This can be a tough industry to be part of but we all do it because we love it.”
The actress further admitted she hoped it was not completely the end for the show suggesting there is potential for the show to be picked up elsewhere for another go around.
She added: “Here’s to hoping it’s not totally the end but even if it is I’m grateful to have had the life changing opportunity to play Sonya Karp and gain the support of so many kind fans all over the world.”
The series is based on a number of novels by Rochelle Mead and is the second time it has been adapted for screen after a 2014 film of the same name was produced.
Ex Tracy Beaker actress Mia McKenna-Bruce held a starring role in the new rebooted Peacock series which received generally positive reviews before it was dumped by the streamer.
Peacock appear to have followed suit on its rival Netflix who have also recently axed a whole host of shows.
Neil Patrick Harris saw his romantic comedy Uncoupled dumped from the platform after just one series.
Animations including Dead End: Paranormal Park and Inside Job also got thrown out by Netflix leaving fans creating petitions in order for it to return.
It will end after just one season[/caption]
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Why 2023 should be dubbed ‘Year of the Lunar Landers’
Let’s be real: Who wants to follow a bang-up year like 2022 into the cosmos?
The new Space Age came alive with the opening of the James Webb Space Telescope, the new super-sensitive observatory in the sky, and the maiden voyage of Artemis, NASA‘s moon-to-Mars campaign that will return astronauts to deep space. Not to mention that time the U.S. space agency successfully moved an asteroid just to prove it could.
But 2023, which could become known as the Year of the Lunar Landers, promises to keep launch pads scorching hot. Many missions are setting the stage for NASA’s Artemis endeavors as well as a future lunar economy. That’s largely thanks to the agency’s Commercial Lunar Payload Services Program, established in 2018 to recruit the private sector to deliver cargo to the moon.
Here’s a round-up of some of the upcoming space missions slated to (fingers crossed) lift off this coming year.
A word to the wise: Consider these no-earlier-than dates. When it comes to rocket launches, often delayed for a host of reasons, we’ll quote Jim Free, NASA’s associate administrator for exploration systems development: “Plan a week trip to Florida for vacation, and you might see a launch.”
Lunar lander to study moondust and more: March 2023
NASA selected commercial partner Intuitive Machines to send a lander to Schroter’s Valley, a region on the nearside of the moon. During the IM-1 mission, the lander, called Nova-C, will study how rocket exhaust and space weather affect the lunar surface. The mission is slated to launch on a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket from Cape Canaveral, Florida.
The spacecraft, a six-sided cylinder standing on six legs, will carry five NASA instruments, among other unrelated commercial pieces of cargo, and demonstrate advanced landing technology. Fun fact: The lander will stay warm in frigid space like a lot of people do — with a coat. Rather than reinvent the wheel, Intuitive Machines partnered with Columbia Sportswear to use some of its insulation material on the spacecraft.
Lander preps for future ice-mining mission: January — March 2023
NASA tapped Astrobotic, another commercial partner, to deliver instruments and experiments to the lunar surface. The Peregrine-1 mission is expected to leave Earth on a United Launch Alliance Vulcan Centaur rocket from Cape Canaveral, Florida, in the first quarter of 2023.
Peregrine is a precursor to the lander Astrobotic will eventually use to send NASA’s VIPER rover to drill for ice on the moon. It will carry versions of instruments the U.S. space agency wants to test before that important, crewless water-hunting mission, targeted for 2024. The boxy four-legged Peregrine will touch down on the “Lake of Death” region, a lava plain in the northeastern part of the moon’s nearside.
SpaceX’s Starship to embark on first orbital spaceflight: 2023
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Standing 400-feet tall, SpaceX’s Starship, an entirely reusable stainless steel contraption, could have about twice as much launch power as NASA’s mega moon rocket.
The Starship is a super-heavy-class rocket and spaceship that NASA plans to use for shuttling astronauts from its future lunar-orbiting base to the moon’s surface. That’s in addition to Elon Musk’s vision to use a fleet of Starships to one day build a settlement on Mars.
When will Musk debut this monstrous machine for its first orbital spaceflight? In true SpaceX fashion, the company is keeping the rest of us on a need-to-know basis. During a PR event last February, Musk said it would happen before the end of 2022.
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Japan to send its own spaceship moonbound: April 2023
Not all of these crewless moon missions will leave from Florida’s Space Coast. The Japanese space agency, aka JAXA, will send its own lander to the lunar surface to demonstrate advanced precision landing with a small explorer.
The SLIM mission, short for Smart Lander for Investigating Moon, is a rideshare flight carrying various payloads. It’s expected to launch from the Tanegashima Space Center in Japan.
India gets do-over for failed moon mission: June 2023
India’s space agency will try again to send a lander and rover to the highlands of the moon’s south pole, following the Chandrayaan-2 mission, in which the spacecraft crashed as it tried to land in 2019.
During this next Chandrayaan-3 mission scheduled for mid-2023, the Indian Space Research Organization plans to use a similar rover as the one used in the previous failed mission but with improvements to help stick the landing. The mission will launch on an LVM 3 heavy-lift rocket from a launch pad on Sriharikota, a barrier island of southeastern India.
Mission to deliver a NASA moon rover: June 2023
Contractor Intuitive Machines has the added responsibility of sending a NASA rover near the south pole of the moon later in the year. This mission, referred to as IM-2 or Prime-1, is to land and test a drill and mass spectrometer, a device that identifies the kinds of particles in a substance.
As currently planned, another spacecraft, NASA’s Lunar Trailblazer, will hitch a ride on this flight as well. The small satellite will orbit the moon to map out the locations of lunar water. The mission will launch on a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket no earlier than June from Cape Canaveral, Florida.
Russia to ship its first moon probe since the ’70s: July 2023
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The former Soviet Union, which collapsed in 1991, sent many robotic spaceships to the moon, but the upcoming Luna 25 will be the first lunar mission in post-Soviet Russian history.
Roscosmos, the Russian space agency, wants to send the lander to a region of the moon’s south pole. It will study the moon’s soil and atmosphere and help to develop landing technology. The spacecraft will launch on a Soyuz-2 rocket with a Fregat upper stage from a Vostochny Cosmodrome launch pad in Kazakhstan.
Before Russia invaded Ukraine, the European Space Agency was expected to partner on the mission by providing a camera that would assist with landing. But Europe pulled out of the deal, along with other Russian space collaborations, because of the geopolitical conflict.
NASA to scope out its first metal asteroid: October 2023
Credit: NASA / JPL-Caltech / ASU
And now for the palate cleanser from all of those 2023 lunar missions: For the first time, NASA will study an asteroid mainly composed of metals, like iron and nickel, from orbit.
The space rock 16 Psyche has long-intrigued planetary scientists, some of whom think it is all that’s left of an ancient planet after collisions that stripped away its rocky exterior.
But hold onto your hats. If the spacecraft leaves on schedule in October 2023, it won’t reach its main asteroid belt destination until August 2029. The orbiter requires a gravity assist from Mars about three years into its journey. NASA plans to launch the mission on a SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket from Cape Canaveral, Florida.
European mission heads to Jupiter’s moons: 2023
Credit: Illustration by ESA
The European Space Agency has its sights set on a mission to Jupiter, where it will fly by three of its icy moons and orbit one in particular, known as Ganymede.
The so-called “Juice” mission (a stretch to call an acronym for Jupiter Icy Moons Explorer, though maybe it’s fitting for Ganymede’s mythological namesake, who served as Jupiter’s personal cupholder), is intended to focus its research on Ganymede as a potential habitat, looking at its ocean layers and atmosphere.
ESA wants to launch the spacecraft on an Ariane 5 rocket from its spaceport in French Guiana on the South American continent. After a seven-year space cruise. It will use gravity assists from Earth and Venus to orbit Jupiter in 2031. It will also check out Jupiter’s moons Callisto and Europa along the way.
Other 2023 space mission events
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June 20, 2023: The European Space Agency’s Bepi-Colombo mission is expected to make its third Mercury flyby.
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Aug. 21, 2023: NASA’s Parker Solar Probe should make its sixth Venus flyby on its sun-studying mission.
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Sept. 24, 2023: NASA’s OSIRIS-Rex mission will return to Earth following its long voyage to the carbon-based asteroid Bennu. The spacecraft, which collected samples in October 2020, is expected to land at the Utah Test and Training Range, west of Salt Lake City.