The buff-tailed coronet (Boissonneaua flavescens) is a species of hummingbird in the "brilliants", members of the tribe Heliantheini in the subfamily Lesbiinae. Found in Colombia, Ecuador and Venezuela, the buff-tailed coronet is 11 to 12 centimetres (4.3 to 4.7 inches) long and weighs 7.3 to 8.8 grams (0.26 to 0.31 ounces). Both sexes have a short, straight, black bill and a small white spot behind the eye. Males of the nominate subspecies, B.f.flavescens, are mostly shining green, with a buff belly spotted with green. The buff-tailed coronet is highly territorial, though it may share feeding at a flowering tree with other hummingbirds. It typically forages in the mid-story but also feeds in the canopy. Breeding behavior has been recorded between November and March, and it has a song consisting of "a continuous series of single high-pitched 'tsit' notes". This buff-tailed coronet of the subspecies B.f.flavescens was photographed in the Reserva Ecologica Rio Blanco, near Manizales, Colombia.Photograph credit: Charles J. SharpRecently featured: Filipendula vulgarisNadarRed pandaArchiveMore featured pictures

April 7: National Beer Day in the United StatesArtist's conception of 2001 Mars Odyssey1655 After a conclave lasting eighty days, the College of Cardinals elected Fabio Chigi as Pope AlexanderVII (pictured).1945 World WarII: U.S. forces sank the Japanese battleship Yamato during Operation KikusuiI in the East China Sea.1994 Rwandan Civil War: The Rwandan genocide began a few hours after the assassination of President Juvnal Habyarimana, with hundreds of thousands killed in the following 100 days.1995 First Chechen War: Russian paramilitary troops began a massacre of hundreds of civilians in Samashki, Chechnya.2001 NASA's 2001 Mars Odyssey (artist's conception pictured), the longest-surviving continually active spacecraft in orbit around a planet other than Earth, launched from Cape Canaveral.BerengarI of Italy (d.924)Martha Ray (d.1779)Joseph Lyons (d.1939)Dave Arneson (d.2009)More anniversaries: April 6April 7April 8ArchiveBy emailList of days of the yearAbout

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Elon Musks Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) is planning to hold a hackathon next week in order to create a mega API for accessing Internal Revenue Service data, reports Wired. The outlet says the API would be used to move the data into a cloud platform potentially a third-party one to serve as the read center of the agencys systems.DOGEs hackathon plan includes pulling together dozens of IRS engineers in DC to build the API, writes Wired. Among the third-party providers the department has reportedly discussed involving is Palantir, a company known for its vast data collection and government surveillance and analysis work. DOGE is aiming to finish the API work in 30 days, a timeline one IRS employee told Wired is not technically possible and would cripple the IRS. Wired says the DOGE operatives orchestrating the project are 25-year-old Gavin Kliger and health-tech CEO Sam Corcos. On March 1st, The Washington Post reported that Corcos had pushed the agency to lift restrictions it had placed on Kligers access to its systems, and proposed an agreement to share IRS data across the government. A March 14th letter to the IRS from Senator Ron Wyden and others suggests the agency didnt relent, as it praises their rightful rejection of DOGEs requests. It goes on to cite another later Post story suggesting that Trump administration officials want to use IRS data to power their immigration crackdown and government efficiency campaign. One of the sources Wired spoke with said that schematizing and understanding the IRS data DOGE is after would take years and that these people have no experience, not only in government, but in the IRS or with taxes or anything else. DOGE has been winding its way through federal agencies since shortly after Trumps inauguration in January. Recent stops include the Federal Trade Commission and Federal Communications Commission. And on Friday, it gained access to data maintained by the US Citizenship and Immigration Services, which handles legal immigration.

A Minecraft Movie had a massive opening weekend at the box office and sparked pandemonium inside theaters, with popcorn being thrown, wild "CHICKEN JOCKEY!" screams, and even reports of police being called. But some are saying their experience was ruined by the chaos.Social media was flooded with videos showing overly enthusiastic cinemagoers screaming lines from the movie, openly filming with their phones, throwing popcorn, and clapping rowdily.One phrase in particular has risen to the top of the social media pile: "CHICKEN JOCKEY!" Jack Black, who plays Minecraft's famous playable character, Steve, says the line in the movie, and videos of screenings that took place over the weekend show it is sending teens delirious.PlayThe line is said during a scene in which Black and Jason Momoa face a cuboid Minecraft chicken who is ridden by a baby zombie in a boxing ring. Blacks Steve declares "CHICKEN JOCKEY!" after the baby zombie falls from a crate onto the chicken; a reference to the video game itself, where certain baby zombie characters are sometimes found riding a chicken.Given these fans had already seen the chicken jockey scene via a Minecraft trailer released in February, they were primed for release when they saw the movie in the cinema. And now, the chicken jockey line has taken on a life of its own, going viral on social media which in turn is fueling even more intense reaction.One person who filmed the reaction, X / Twitter user @ollie_twt, described the scenes: "the people behind me took their shirts off as well as the ones in the front that were standing. That was by far the loudest theater Ive ever been in and it was awesome."One Tik-Tok video viewed by IGN shows a person carrying another on their shoulders, mimicking the chicken jockey itself. Another video, below, shows a teen standing ready to throw two popcorn buckets over the audience during the chicken jockey scene.Another shows similar popcorn-throwing scenes:There are even reports of police being called to eject members of the audience, and complaints from theater employees who have taken to social media and online forums to say people throwing drinks and popcorn makes their jobs even harder. @salesmenpod This whole night was surreal and one of the most unforgettable movie experiences Ive ever had. . . #minecraft #movie #minecraftmovie #chicken #jockey #chickenjockey #fyp #viral #reaction #funny #meme #moviereview #featureme #clips #comedy #video #videogames #games #game original sound - Salesmen: After Hours While its clear a significant portion of the Minecraft movie audience is loving all the chaos, there are a number of fans who have expressed frustration that their experience was ruined by all the shouting and clapping.Then there are the bemused audience members who aren't in on the joke. Parents taking their young children, friends and family members who aren't as... online as the rest of us. @ickysnotbubble_ the audience was so hype #minecraftmovie #minecraftmoviememe QKThr - Aphex Twin Warner Bros. will no doubt be delighted by the virality of A Minecraft Movie, of course, as it heads into its second weekend. Its already secured an incredible $301 million during opening weekend. Could it eventually beat The super Mario Bros. Movie as the highest-grossing video game adaptation of all time?Wesley is the UK News Editor for IGN. Find him on Twitter at @wyp100. You can reach Wesley at wesley_yinpoole@ign.com or confidentially at wyp100@proton.me.

What happens when you drive a Cybertruck around the nation's capital? You get yelled at, talked down to, and flipped off a lot.That was the experience of Saahal Desai , who concluded after his ordeal that the "Cybertruck is a 7,000-pound Rorschach test."Desai rented the polarizing Tesla pickup which has come to embody everything people hate about its creator Elon Musk in a "journalistic experiment to understand what it's like behind the wheel of America's most hated car." And not because, as Desai later admits, he thinks it's "kind of a cool" ride. (Debatable.)After just one day of tooling around Washington, DC, Desai was given the bird at least 17 times. He was called a "motherfucker," a "fucking dork," and a lot more. Seldom did he escape mockery or derision. Diners getting brunch on a sidewalk laughed and jeered as he passed. Someone audibly considered egging his vehicle. This is the Cybertruck Owner's Burden."As I idled with the windows down on a street in the Mount Pleasant neighborhood," Desai recalled, "a woman glared at me from her front porch: 'Fuck you, and this truck, and Elon,' she yelled. 'You drive a Nazi truck.'"Then, Desai continued, "she slammed her front door shut, and then opened it again,"adding that "I hope someone blows your shit up."Of course, pulling off this stunt in The District of all places is pretty much asking for negative attention, and isn't necessarily reflective of the average Cybertruck driver experience. "This is, after all," Desai notes, "the radioactive center of DOGE's blast radius."That said, nationwide, Tesla and the Cybertruck especially have unquestionably been on the receiving end of waves of outrage. The automaker's dealerships have faced angry protests, acts of vandalism, gunfire, and firebombings. Countless random Tesla vehicles on the road have been defaced with spray paint, smeared with feces, pelted with eggs, and had their windshields smashed.Musk is the reason why. His public image has soured since he threw his weight behind the presidency of Donald Trump, bankrolling his campaign to the tune of nearly $300 million and crescendoingHe has led the Department of Government Efficiency, the Trump administration's cadre of pipsqueak mercenaries tasked with gutting the federal government by slashing expenditures and firing tens of thousands of employees. In response to the rising anti-Musk sentiment, the administration and its security apparatus closed ranks: the FBI launched a brand new task force to crack down on the Tesla vandals, describing the acts as "domestic terrorism."As for the Cybertruck, it's a bold, polarizing vehicle even without all that political baggage. It looks weird and is itself a bold middle-finger to common-sense automotive norms. It costs more than a Corvette when Musk initially promised it'd sell for less than $40,000. Fans hyped it as the culmination of Elon's visionary genius. That it's turned out to be an unreliable lemon has only made it riper a punching bag for Musk's critics, and by extension, anyone not a fan of the Trump administration.Desai did receive some thumbs-ups as he drove through tourist-heavy areas. One person remarked that it was "awesome." A kid screamed "Cybertruck!" But these were few and far between, and by no means redeemed the overall Cybertruck experience."The disaster of the Cybertruck is not that it's ugly, or unconventional, or absurdly pointy," Desai concluded. "It's that, for most people, the car just isn't worth driving."Share This Article

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Nintendo has delayed preorders on Nintendo Switch 2 as it reconsiders pricing amid President Donald Trump's sweeping tariffs. Saul Loeb; Dimitar Dilkoff/Getty ImagesNintendo fans erupted in frustration Friday after the company announced it would delay preorders for the highly anticipated Switch 2 console in the United Statesciting President Donald Trump's tariffs as the reason.Set to launch globally on June 5, the Switch 2 carries a $449 price tag, already higher than most fans expected for the Nintendo console. But now, U.S. gamers won't be able to preorder on the originally scheduled date of April 9, as the company re-evaluates pricing amid rising import costs."Pre-orders for Nintendo Switch 2 in the US will not start April 9, 2025 in order to assess the potential impact of tariffs and evolving market conditions," Nintendo said in a statement, while confirming the launch date remains unchanged.The announcement comes just two days after Trump revealed a new global tariff package that is especially aggressive in countries like Vietnam and Cambodiawhere a majority of Nintendo's hardware is now manufactured after production shifted away from China in response to tariffs issued in his first term. Vietnam is now subject to 46% tariffs, while Cambodia faces 49%.Online, users were quick to fault Trump for the disruption. "Say thank you to the worst president of US history," one user wrote on X, with another declaring, "Trump ruining things as usual.""I hate everyone who voted for Trump," a user said, spreading the blame to include Trump's supporters. "If you're a US gamer and you voted for Trump (or didn't vote at all), the Switch 2 pricing and pre-order delay shit is 100% on you," another user accused.Many pointed out that the Switch 2 is already rumored to be priced higher in the U.S. than in international markets, and some speculated that the console could easily push past $500 stateside if Nintendo adjusts for the new tariff costs."Now it'll cost a billion dollars, thanks orange man," quipped one gamer. "Another reason why TARIFFS ARE BAD!!!!!" a frustrated Nintendo fan wrote.The uproar is one of the first major consumer-facing consequences of Trump's revived trade war.While gamers are disappointed by the news, some cautioned that there could be more disappointment coming down the pipeline. "Get ready because this is only the beginning of everything taking a significant jump in price." 2025 Latin Times. All rights reserved. Do not reproduce without permission.Tags:Nintendo, Tariffs, Trump Tariffs, Video games, Tech, Economy, Donald Trump

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