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Sometimes the men and women in blue have to do whatever it takes. Last week, that included getting down and dirty to rescue 10 motherless ducklings trapped in a Queens storm drain.

Acting on a report from a concerned nature lover at the Jamaica Bay Wildlife Refuge, police located the ducklings in a parking lot storm drain near the North Channel Bridge.

Members of the NYPD Emergency Service Unit and the U.S. Parks Police worked together to open the storm drain and rescue the tiny birds one by one, reported the New York Daily News. The last duckling reportedly took some coaxing before someone could finally grab him.

But there was one thing police couldn’t do for the little ducks: Locate their missing mother. So the gang is now being cared for by National Parks Service biologist Bill Parker.

The ducklings are in good health and are expected to live. They’ll be returned to Jamaica Bay when they’re big enough to survive on their own.

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So we know that Blizzard is working on a HD remaster of StarCraft, and now it looks like Blizzard could be doing the same with some of their older franchises, such as Diablo 2 and Warcraft 3. This is according to a report from PCGamesN who spotted a couple of job listings at Blizzard that hinted at such plans.

According to one of the job listings, “Qualities that made StarCraft, Warcraft III, and Diablo II the titans of their day. Evolving operating systems, hardware, and online services have made them more difficult to be experienced by their loyal followers or reaching a new generation. We’re restoring them to glory, and we need your engineering talents, your passion, and your ability to get tough jobs done.”

The other listing reads, “Classic Games is looking for a renaissance designer to harmonize that which was, with that which will be. Warcraft, StarCraft, and Diablo await your machinations. If you have the desire to rise to that challenge, we’d love to hear from you.” Of course this by no means confirms Blizzard’s plans, but it certainly sounds like it.

Given that Blizzard is working on a StarCraft remaster, we guess it wouldn’t be a stretch to think that a remaster of older titles might be in the works as well. In any case try not to get your hopes up yet, but perhaps we could hear something at BlizzCon 2017 which will be held in November later this year.

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As you might have heard, visitors traveling to the US are expected to share information about their social media profiles, but it seems that social media profiles might not be the only thing that they’ll have to declare because in a new proposed bill by Sen. Chuck Grassley, it seems that soon any form of crypto/digital currency you own might need to be declared as well.

Introduced on the 25th of May last month, it basically proposes that travelers to the US declare their digital currencies, such as Bitcoin. At the moment those traveling to the US will have to declare money that they bring into the country if it exceeds $10,000 in value. The idea of declaring digital currencies is that because it technically can follow the owner wherever they go, it’s almost as if they have it on hand like cash.

This is slightly different from other forms of currency or things of value which might not accompany the traveler, such as property or financial assets owned in other countries that do not follow them into the US. Exactly how they will determine if a person has digital currency remains to be seen, just like how it would be impossible to determine if people are bringing more than $10,000 into the country unless each and every person is searched.

However according to Investopedia, it has been suggested that maybe the Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act could be expanded to regulate foreign cryptocurrency exchanges, or that there could be some kind of global monitoring system to watch over blockchain ledgers. The bill has yet to be passed so there is a chance that it might not, but for those who own Bitcoin or other similar currencies, it could be worth keeping an eye out for.

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