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DraftKings and White Hat Gaming must pay a combined $22,500 in fines to the state of Connecticut after their online slot machines failed to pay out winnings to players for a week. NBC News reports that the state’s Consumer Protection Department issued the fines after discovering the machines were not paying out winnings.The sports betting and gambling website received a $19,000 fine, while White Hat Gaming received a $3,500 fine. The website had promised players that its online slot machine, “Deal or No Deal Banker’s Bonanza,” would pay them 95 cents for every dollar it received from them. However, according…
Electric SUVs are a big trend right now, but it’s probably not what you think. It’s not about extended range. It’s not about more advanced battery architectures, super fast charging, or NACS plugs. No, the real trend for electric SUVs is late. Porsche’s electric Macan took ages to get into production, and its sibling, the Audi Q6 E-Tron, was also delayed by a few months.The same fate befell Volvo’s EX90. Originally scheduled for release in 2023, that car and its sibling, the Polestar 3, have only just started rolling out of Volvo’s manufacturing plant near Charleston, South Carolina. Volvo has…
Summer is here, and it’s all about neighborhood patrols, soccer games, and all the snacks the boys can handle. Batman and Robin and Howard: Summer Breakdown #3 Batman, Robin and Howard: Summer Breakdown #3Convinced that Talia Al Ghul is helping the Luthor Corporation set up Recomplex Tech, Damian Wayne knows his mother is up to no good in Gotham – and he’s convinced the Hero Club are ninjas she’s hired! Howard isn’t so sure, but one thing is for sure: Lex Luthor is determined to recycle enough Kryptonite to defeat Superman.Can the kids learn to work together before Luthor’s plan…
Update, Sept. 3, 5:15 p.m. ET: Starlink has reversed its decision to not comply with X’s blocking of Brazil. In a statement posted to X, the company said:”To our customers in Brazil (you may not be able to read this message because X has been blocked by @alexandre):The Starlink team is committed to keeping you connected.Following the injunction issued by @alexandre last week freezing Starlink’s finances and prohibiting Starlink from conducting financial transactions in Brazil, we immediately initiated legal proceedings in the Brazilian Supreme Court, explaining the gross illegality of the injunction and asking the Court to unfreeze our assets.…
Reggie Games, creators and publishers of the wildly popular board game Primal: The Awakening, have announced the opening of the Primal Boutique Store, which will carry all products from the Kickstarter campaign and upcoming expansions in 2025. The product will be available in the Primal Boutique Store on September 17th, 2024. Reggie Games has chosen to independently reprint Primal: The Awakening and create a dedicated space dedicated to the game and all of their future plans. The game’s Kickstarter campaign asked for around £150,000 in 2021 and raised over £2 million by the time it ended. If this isn’t an…
You could say X has joined the streaming wars: owner Elon Musk announced that the X TV app, teased earlier this year, is now available on select Amazon Fire TVs, Google TVs, and select LG panels. If your TV doesn’t fall into any of these categories, don’t worry: you won’t miss anything. A short teaser video included with the beta app announcement shows what appears to be Google’s version of the app, complete with a typical streaming video interface, along with links to videos from right-wing dog whistle Tucker Carlson and accounts for SpaceX and Tesla, among the platform’s handful…
Growing up. It’s something we all do, and devices do too. While there’s been very little innovation in mainstream smartphones lately, foldable phones have been maturing over the last few years and finally seem to be coming into their own. It’s like they’re in the young adult phase of their lives, while the conventional “candybar” handset has largely been figured out. At least, on the outside, anyway.If foldables are the products, then companies like Samsung and Google are the parents, and each of those two has taken a different approach. Samsung has been more experimental, letting its baby flail around…
The upcoming anime series Dandadan is being produced by a talented team of artists, including character designer Onda Naoyuki, creature designer Kameda Yoshimichi, and series first-time director Yamashiro Fuuga. But one of the most well-known figures in the production is Ushio Kensuke. He’s the composer behind such anime classics as Ping Pong, Chainsaw Man, and Liz and the Blue Bird, as well as being both a solo artist (under the name Agraph) and a former member of the rock band Lama. In that capacity, he’s performed with former members of legendary J-rock bands Supercar and Number Girl. At Anime NYC,…
Foldable smartphones have come a long way since the original Samsung Galaxy Fold was released in 2019. They’re smaller, more durable, and now more affordable, if not the most affordable smartphone out there. Five years ago you might not have considered a foldable smartphone as a daily phone, but now it’s a much more realistic option, and there are more options to choose from. If you’re thinking about switching to a foldable smartphone, or you’re ready to upgrade the one you already have, Engadget is here to help you make the decision. We’ve spent hundreds of hours and days testing…
Less than two weeks after its release, Concord was gone.Sony announced this morning that it would take the game offline on September 6th, and said it would offer refunds to the small number of people who chose to buy it. The team-based shooter was one of PlayStation’s new first-party games scheduled for release this year. Sony released it on both PS5 and PC on August 23rd. As for the scale of this failure, the company doesn’t usually share detailed player numbers for its platforms. But Steam does. And the numbers there aren’t pretty.While Steam player counts aren’t a perfect reflection…