Aug 23
Aug 23
Arkansas Governor Announces Federal Probe Into Cops’ Violent Behavior During Arrest
Posted in: Today's ChiliRepublican Gov. Asa Hutchinson said the three officers who aggressively beat a man they were arresting engaged in “reprehensible conduct.”
Aug 23
eBay is placing a big bet on the booming trading card industry. The company is set to buy TCGplayer — an online marketplace for trading card games — in a deal valued up to $295 million, it announced today. Launched in 2008, TCGplayer specializes in trading cards from popular franchises like Pokémon, Magic: The Gathering, Digimon and more. The site will operate independently after the acquisition, which is expected to close in the first quarter of 2023. eBay — which is currently the world’s largest card resale site — also noted that the deal will provide it with “strategic omnichannel capabilities like order fulfillment and cart optimization.”
The pandemic drove a surge of interest in collectible trading cards that has only recently started to slow down. Last year eBay sold a trading card every two seconds, noted The Athletic. The company has taken steps to make it easier for individuals to sell trading cards on its platform, such as adding image recognition to automate listings and authenticating trading cards worth $750 or more.
eBay has also ventured into another area of collectibles — NFTs. Earlier this year, the company launched its own NFT collection and bought digital art marketplace KnownOrigin for an undisclosed sum.
Aug 23
House of the Dragon Proves That HBO Viewers Are Still Fired Up About Game of Thrones
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Does it feel like there are dragons everywhere you look today? That’s because probably most everyone you know tuned in to House of the Dragon last night, which brought in “the largest audience for any new original series in the history of HBO,” according to a press release from the network.
Aug 22
The entire elections staff in a rural Texas county has quit less than three months before November’s midterm elections.
Aug 22
Miko, the company behind robots for young kids, has teamed up with Disney to bring some of its most popular characters to its platform in the form of stories.
Aug 22
Due to very specific government regulations, the popular gaming computers have seen shipping halted to several states across the country.
Aug 22
The PS5 isn’t meant for hot or humid rooms, and there are several other factors that could be behind the unit becoming too hot for gameplay.
Aug 22
Can you guess which Android smartphone fans wish would return the most? Here’s a hint: It practically created its own product category at launch.
Aug 22
The history of water on Mars flows a lot deeper than scientists once believed. A new project has mapped hundreds of thousands of rock formations on the Red Planet that may have been altered by large amounts of water in the past.
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