A new study that examines the attitudes and behaviors of electronic gaming machine (EGM) venue customers and staff in Victoria, Australia, reveals high rates of problem gambling risk. The study has been published by the Victoria State Government, and it has involved a venue-based survey of 352 EGM customers... Read more

It’s almost the new year and people all over the world are considering their lives and the changes they want to bring into 2026. It’s easy to get stuck in a rut, going to work, putting off the things you want to do to a distant tomorrow. Rather than... Read more

Every audio system requires amplification. In a traditional hi-fi set-up, the loudspeakers are always “passive”—which is to say, they don’t produce their own power. Instead, they must receive an amplified audio signal from an external source, aptly called an amplifier, in order to do their thing. Even in a... Read more

The sports betting and iGaming operator Meridianbet has announced that its title sponsorship with the basketball team BC Crvena Zvezda will continue through 2030. The team is a men’s professional basketball club based in Belgrade, Serbia, and is part of the Red Star multi-sports club. They compete in the... Read more

Today’s robot vacuums aren’t the same Roomba your parents first bought. The earliest versions had little to no navigation, barely managed to vacuum and got stuck on just about everything. If you’ve been holding off on buying a robot vacuum because you don’t trust it to do the job... Read more

Photograph: Matt Kamen Boot up the C64U, and you’re greeted by a re-creation of the C64’s menu. Here, you can type in operation commands just as you would back in the day, using the BASIC programming language. Problem: I don’t have the first clue about BASIC. However, in what... Read more

British actor Christopher Eccleston has lent his voice to the growing movement calling for an end to gambling advertising in the UK, weaving in subtle nods to Doctor Who along the way. The 61-year-old appears in a new public service short film titled Stacking the Deck, produced by the... Read more

Looking for the most recent Strands answer? Click here for our daily Strands hints, as well as our daily answers and hints for The New York Times Mini Crossword, Wordle, Connections and Connections: Sports Edition puzzles. Today’s NYT Strands puzzle could be tough, if you haven’t been tuned in to popular music... Read more

Privacy isn’t dead. Just ask Kristi Noem. The Department of Homeland Security secretary has spent 2025 trying to convince the American public that identifying roving bands of masked federal agents is “doxing”—and that revealing these public servants’ identities is “violence.” Noem is wrong on both fronts, legal experts say,... Read more

A builder who swindled dozens of customers out of about £1.25 million ($1.69 million) has been sentenced to 14 years in prison after a court heard he used some of the money to fund his gambling habit. Mark Killick, 56, from Paulton in England, who also went by the... Read more