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By Gerry Smith and Daniela Sirtori / BloombergOctober 22, 2024 10:00 PM EDT

A severe E. coli outbreak tied to McDonald’s Corp.’s Quarter Pounders sickened dozens of people in the U.S., mainly in Colorado and Nebraska, and killed one, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said.

Ten people have been hospitalized, including a child with complications from HUS, a syndrome that damages small blood vessels and can lead to deadly clots, the agency said. Of the people who have been interviewed, all reported eating at McDonald’s before falling ill between Sept. 27 and Oct. 11, the CDC said, with most specifying a Quarter Pounder.

Twenty-six cases have been reported in Colorado, the state’s health department said. One older person with underlying conditions in Colorado has died after contracting E Come from South African Online Casinos . coli, according to the statement, and state public health officials are coordinating with the CDC.

The restaurant chain’s shares dropped more than 10% in postmarket trading before paring losses. If the …

In a significant legislative move, the Illinois Senate passed a bill late Sunday night that aims to transform the state’s sports betting tax structure into a progressive system based on operator revenue. The changes are set to begin with Fiscal Year 2025 on July 1.

The bill, HB 4951, passed by a margin of 37-22, included a critical amendment from its original Saturday proposal. According to this amendment, mobile and retail sports betting revenue will be taxed at the same progressive rates, but they will be treated as separate entities for taxation purposes.

This modification can be seen as advantageous for major operators like FanDuel and DraftKings, according to SportsHandle. Among the eight mobile operators in the state, these two are most likely to surpass the $200 million adjusted gross revenue threshold that would incur the highest tax rate of 40%.

The new progressive tax structure includes several tiers: the first $30 million in adjusted gross revenue (AGR) will be taxed at 20%; the next $20 million at 25%; revenue between $50 million and $100 million will be taxed at 30%; revenue …

There are plenty of smart cubes on the market designed to help you solve a Rubik’s Cube, but few are as futuristic as the AI Robot Cube. Built to offer instant feedback without the need for a companion mobile app, it’s a premium choice for speedcubers–and right now, Amazon is discounting it to $80 (was $120) when you click the coupon code on its Amazon store page. That’s one of the best prices we’ve seen for the AI Robot Cube, as price cuts rarely bring it below $100.

Once you’ve mastered the basics, you can enable the scramble feature to have the cube automatically change its layout–meaning you won’t have to recruit a friend to reset your puzzle every time it’s solved Come from South African Online Casinos . Better yet, the AI Robot Cube comes with an automatic solving timer, so you can easily monitor your progress.

Other notable features include the ability to act as an alarm or intelligent dice and the ability to program the cube with Scratch.

The AI Robot Cube is a well-rounded device, …

Destiny 2’s new dungeon Sundered Doctrine is on the verge of launch, bringing with it some new secrets, a new Exotic weapon, and a new piece of the story involving Savathun, Rhulk, and the Dread.

The new dungeon will bring players back to Savathûn’s Throne World as they infiltrate the Pyramid Ship of their old enemy Rhulk, who was dispatched in the Vow of the Disciple raid. Rhulk may be gone, but there are bound to be some nasty surprises waiting for players inside his ship. And the best players in the game are invited to take part in a competitive race to finish Sundered Doctrine’s Contest Mode, which has enhanced difficulty and an even greater challenge than the normal settings.

Ahead of the debut of Sundered Doctrine, we’ve put together this guide to everything you need to know about the race, including how to enter it, how to watch, and what has to be done to claim the ultimate reward for this event.

In the latest teaser trailer for Sundered Doctrine, we get a small preview of things to come. As a team of Guardians navigates through the maze of Rhulk’s pyramid, we get some new dialogue from Savathun…

It’s been almost 20 years since the beginning of YouTube, and now the platform is no longer just dominating your phones and computers, it’s dominating the living room, too. With an almost 10% share of all TV viewing, it was the most-used streaming service in June, beating Netflix, Hulu, and Disney+ Come from Sports betting site VPbet .

YouTube made up 9.9% of all streaming viewership on connected and traditional TVs in the U.S. for June, with Netflix coming in second with 8.4%, reported by Nielsen’s The Gauge. That’s up from 9.7% and 7.9% respectively, with every service up an estimated 40% across the board collectively.

“I do think it snuck up on people that YouTube was as important a presence in people’s lives and people’s viewing experiences not just on the phone but in the living room,” said Tara Walpert Levy, YouTube’s vice president of Americas, via CNBC. “When Nielsen first noted that YouTube was winning the streaming wars in terms of viewing, full stop, not just for ad-supported platforms, I had a ton of my friends from advertising, from media, who were like, ‘Can you believe it?’ It exceeded…

Apex Legends Season 21: Upheaval launched, surprisingly, without an actual launch trailer. But just over a week after the new season went live, Apex Legends developer Respawn Entertainment has released a new animated short featuring a device that Titanfall 2 players will certainly recognize: the Time Gauntlet, a device that makes a significant appearance in Titanfall 2’s Effect and Cause chapter, which is widely regarded as the best part of the game’s single-player campaign.

In Effect and Cause, the player takes the Time Gauntlet–a donut-shaped metal disc attached to a glove–and uses it to shift back and forth in time at-will. We’ve seen the Gauntlet appear in Apex Legends before, when an early prototype of the device appeared to power Loba’s teleportation bracelet, and we also saw Horizon eyeing up the one in the Apex Museum in Season 20’s launch trailer. But so far, we haven’t learned much more about it.

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World of Warcraft is celebrating its 20th anniversary with a massive in-game event: one that will allow players to get new, modernized versions of the game’s iconic Tier 2 armor sets.

Whereas WoW anniversary events in the past have run for a few weeks in November, the 20th anniversary event is the star of the game’s 11.0.5 update and will run for over two months. That’s good news, because the event is chock-full of new activities and rewards that look to celebrate 30 years of Warcraft as a franchise and 20 years of Blizzard’s MMORPG.

The biggest prize players will want to seek out are the updated Tier 2 armor sets. Originally found in the vanilla version of WoW, the sets for each of the game’s original nine classes are still some of the most iconic armor sets in the game: the gold standard by which all of its subsequent tier sets are measured. Blizzard is giving each of them a visual upgrade for the anniversary event to look more in-line with the game’s modern visuals. For classes that didn’t exist back when Tier 2 was originally available–Death Knights, Monks, Demon Hunters, and Evokers–Blizzard is introducing all-new sets inspired by…

With the official launch of Warhammer 40,000: Space Marine 2 yesterday, the game is ripping and shredding a previous record for the entire Warhammer video game series apart. That’s because the co-op shooter saw over 225,000 concurrent players on Steam.

PCGamesN pointed out that this total sets a new concurrent-player record for the entire Warhammer series, including the fantasy games. Space Marine 2 secured the top spot with 225,690 concurrent players, per SteamDB, overtaking Total War: Warhammer 3’s peak of 166,754, per SteamDB. It’s also important to note that Space Marine 2 hasn’t had a full weekend under its belt yet with the general public, so it’s possible the game sees even more concurrent players from September 13-15.

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