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The global esports betting market is projected to grow from $11.22 billion in 2024 to $12.66 billion this year, marking nearly a 13% rise. Major esports titles saw a huge year-on-year betting volume increase, with Valorant jumping 175% and CS2 growing by 99%.

The relationship between Gen Z and U.S. sport has been rocky over the past few years. While previous generations grew up watching NFL Sundays and NBA playoff runs, today’s 18–24-year-olds are choosing to tune out.

The World Series of Poker (WSOP) is one of the most prestigious and biggest poker series in the world. The event has taken place in Las Vegas annually since 1970 and is the longest-running poker tournament in the world. Across WSOP's entire history, more than $4 billion has been awarded in prize money.

Enter Fable Games. A horse that, on paper, looks like a top contender for the Kentucky Derby. The only catch? He doesn’t exist. Yet, despite being nothing more than a fabrication, it’s been surprisingly easy to make him seem like the next big thing in racing.

Is it really necessary to tip when picking up takeout food or even a latte on the go? Tipping your waiter or bartender is an oft-debated practice that’s synonymous with dining out. Before everyone carried a smartphone, many thrifty diners would even carry around a tip calculator to make sure they were gracing their server with just the right amount of gratuity. Today, tips are commonly pre-calculated for us via a point-of-sale system, which makes leaving the right tip more convenient. But with this convenience comes pressure.

It’s that time of year again and the internet is abuzz with speculation around Apple’s latest iPhone event, slated for September 7. And the event, dubbed ‘Far Out’, has the rumor mill churning at full steam. A heavily-rumored astrophotography feature, which is realistically a selling proposition only for a niche consumer segment, has reignited the conversation questioning Apple’s continued innovation. With the seemingly incremental upgrades (along with price increases) iPhones have received for the past several generations, we wanted to ask Apple loyalists how they are feeling about the iPhone 14 rumors and if they plan to upgrade.