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Earlier this month, LeToya Luckett and hubby Tommicus Walker revealed that they are expecting their second child. Now, the couple has shared the baby’s gender.

Due to the ongoing coronavirus pandemic, the couple was unable to host an in-person gender reveal party, so Luckett took to Instagram Live to share the news with family, friends, and fans.

“In an interest to keep our friends & family safe, @tommicuswalker and I decided against having a gathering to reveal the sex of our little one. Instead, we’re choosing to have an online reveal party!!!”

TODAY IS THE DAY!!! In an interest to keep our friends & family safe ,@tommicuswalker and Idecided against having a gathering to reveal the sex of our little one. Instead we’re choosing to have an online reveal party!!! Please tune in TODAY at 7pm CST as we share the Joy & delight of finding out the gender of our new addition!! We’re grateful either way!! What do you think? Girl or boy?Drop a heart below!!

A post shared by LeToya Luckett-Walker (@letoyaluckett) on Mar 27, 2020 at 9:39am PDT

So, is the couple expecting a boy or a girl? Drumroll, please…it’s a boy!

While both parents were over the moon with the news, Walker just couldn’t contain his excitement as he jumped for joy around the house. “This is so exciting. We are having a boy,” Luckett said.

Their baby boy will join the couple’s two children, daughters Madison and Gianna.

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It’s time my Slayers, time for some blood spurtin’, guts spewin’, demon killin’, guitar riff, rip and tear Doom action. That is the whole game in a nutshell. Yeah, there’s some story in there, but it’s really not important here. Doom knows what it is and is at it’s best when it focuses on that. Put on your Slayer helmet and grab your BFG as we review Doom Eternal.

When we last left Doomguy, he had just saved Mars from the demons but was betrayed and captured by Dr. Samual Hayden. Then… some stuff happens and then we pick up two years later with Doomguy having escaped, acquired his own Justice League Watchtower, and earth in the clutches of a full on demon invasion. I’m getting my gripes with the game out of the way first; it’s so abrupt where the story picks up that it feels like there was an entire game missing that was supposed to bridge the two. I know most, if not all players are not here for the story, and that’s perfectly fine. Doom has never been known for its story. But this game does have a story. It dives into the backstory of this iteration of Doomguy, it world builds with lore and codex… it just left me wanting more. I wish it was presented better and more fully, but it’s a minor gripe. We aren’t here for a bedtime story; WE’RE HERE TO RIP AND TEAR DEMONS APART!!! And this is where the game shines.

Playing Doom Eternal is a visceral and cathartic experience in the best way. The game does not hold your hand. It gives you a shotgun and pushes you off the high dive to belly flop into a pool of demons. The controls are tight, and the gameplay is challenging. When you feel like you’re getting used to all the demons, it throws another one at you to challenge your sanity. As the difficulty ramps up, so does your arsenal. The game gives you plenty of guns and mods so that you always have a fighting chance. Every gun feels polished and great to use. The game isn’t always great when it “tries” to explain how to defeat later enemies and bosses, but it never feels cheap. You always feel like there’s a fighting chance, even when it frustrates the hell out of you.

The only other complaint I have, and it’s a very minor complaint, is that the game can get a little monotonous after a while. There are some levels that are a little boring. You realize that all that this game is is running to an area, shoot everything run to next area, rinse and repeat over and over again.  I got bored a few times.  But that was few and far in between and it feels like the game knows when it’s starting to get boring and introduces a new gun or enemy. Again, if you’re here for Doom, you know what you’re getting into and the game knows this.

Doom Eternal is the sequel that doubles down on everything that people loved from its predecessor. It’s a fun game that works well in short burst. You bored? Kill some demons. You upset over something? Rip off a head or 10. You got cabin fever from self-quarantine? Chainsaw a few body’s into a bloody pulp. I wish they gave a story a little more care considering all the backstory and interesting lore that’s there, but Doom knows what Doom is about. If you’re a fan of Doom 2016 or Doom in general, this will be a great game for you. If you’re someone who hasn’t played Doom before but you’re interested, I would say check it out, and you’ll have a lot of fun as long as you like a lot of shooting and blood and guts.  Stay inside and rip and tear the forces of hell apart.

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COVID-19 (via Johns Hopkins Medicine)

Alphabet Inc.’s research organization Verily launched a website to provide information about coronavirus screening in the San Francisco Bay Area.

Starting today, Californians can take an online COVID-19 screener survey, hosted by Verily’s Project Baseline.

Those who meet eligibility and requirements are then directed to mobile sites for a nasal swab test.

The pilot is currently testing only the highest risk individuals at select sites in San Francisco; as more testing kits and sites become available, Verily intends to scale up its program.

“Ultimately, our goal is to help local authorities expand testing access in California as the need continues to increase,” the Alphabet subsidiary said in a blog post.

Verily is collaborating with California Gov. Gavin Newsom’s office, federal authorities, and local public health authorities to help more people in the coming weeks.

“We hope that this partnership can scale and we believe it will be a national model,” Newsom said at a Sunday press conference.

U.S. residents aged 18 and older in the Bay Area can get screened online: Simply create an account, complete a permission form, and take the brief survey.

Answering “yes” to the first query—”Are you currently experiencing severe cough, shortness of breath, fever, or other concerning symptoms?”—ends the test, while “no” advances it.

On the surface, this seems counterintuitive. But Verily confirmed to BuzzFeed News that the screener is in fact working as intended.

“The initial question is meant to ensure that anyone who is seriously ill does not come to our sites because they are not prepared to provide medical attention,” the firm said.

Based on the survey responses and appointment availability (which, at this point, is basically nonexistent), you will learn whether you qualify for testing through the program.

Current testing sites are located in Santa Clara County and San Mateo County.

“We are early in this pilot,” Verily said, “and going to be learning more that will help us refine this COVID-19 risk screening.”

Today’s launch follows mass confusion about the project and its scope.

Amidst the chaos of a global pandemic, Donald Trump on Friday announced that Google is working with the White House and private sector partners on a website to give people information about novel coronavirus testing.

Google later tweeted that Verily is “developing a tool to help triage individuals for COVID-19 testing.”

So far, so good.

But divergent facts—Trump said 1,700 Google engineers were working on the project, but Verily only has about 1,000 employees—suggested the president “oversold” and “inflated” the concept, The New York Times reported.

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On March 15, SpaceX stood down from its launch attempt of Starlink satellites (via SpaceX/YouTube)

SpaceX on Sunday scrubbed the launch of 60 new Starlink satellites at the last second—due to an engine power issue with the mission’s Falcon 9 rocket.

The onboard computer triggered an abort just before a scheduled 9:22 a.m. ET liftoff, after detecting an issue with one of its nine Merlin 1D engines.

Even the countdown announcer was surprised.

With about one minute to go, Falcon 9 flight computers took control of the launch procedure.

At T-10 seconds, a human pipes in, following the clock as it drops: 10, nine, eight, seven, six, five, four, three, two, one, zero … liftoff!

Moments later, as the camera focuses on the still-grounded rocket, a clearly disheartened commentator adds, “Disregard. We have an abort.”

“Standing down today,” SpaceX tweeted over the weekend. “Standard auto-abort triggered due to out-of-family data during engine power check.”

After about two minutes of watching smoke clear around the Falcon 9 in a YouTube livestream (above), Distribution Supervisor Michael Andrews appears with more information.

“As you just heard … we had a condition regarding engine power that caused us to abort today’s launch,” he explained. “Keep in mind: The purpose of the countdown is to help us catch potential issues prior to flight. There are a thousand ways a launch can go wrong, and only one way it can go right.

“Given that we are overly cautious on the ground, and if the team or the vehicle see anything that just looks even slightly off, we’ll stop the countdown,” according to Andrews. “Overall, the vehicle appears to be in good health. But that will end our launch attempt for today.”

The firm will announce its next launch date opportunity “once confirmed on the Range.”

More on Geek.com:

• SpaceX to Send Private Citizens to Space
• SpaceX Misses Falcon 9 Landing After Successful Starlink Launch
• SpaceX Completes Final Flight Test, Teases Q2 Crewed Launch