Apologizes

Earlier this month we covered the infringement lawsuit brought against Himiway by JackRabbit after the former released a very similarly styled micro electric bike. Now that e-bike, known as the Himiway Pony, is being recalled and Himiway is issuing an apology. The JackRabbit, which is technically better classified as a seated electric scooter due to its lack of pedals, has been a popular product in the micro e-bike category for several years. I’ve tested one myself on multiple occasions and…

The Lord of the Rings: Gollum launched on May 25, and its release was not what developer Daedalic Entertainment wanted to see. The game received very bad review scores, and many people have pointed out the game's numerous glitches and other oddities. In a statement, Daedalic apologized for the "underwhelming experience" people have reported."We acknowledge and deeply regret that the game did not meet the expectations we set for ourselves or for our dedicated community," the developer said. "Please accept…

A new game set in J.R.R. Tolkien’s “Lord of the Rings” universe launched on Thursday, and it’s been suffering a rough critical reception. “The Lord of the Rings: Gollum” currently holds a 36 (out of 100) on Metacritic, making it one of the lowest-rated games of the year. While critics acknowledged there was merit to the game’s overarching story and characterization of Gollum, that was more or less where the compliments ended. According to Metacritic, there hasn’t been a single mainstream positive review, with the…

In joint public statements from Writers Guild of America West president Meredith Stiehm and Directors Guild of America president Lesli Linka Glatter, both organizations lambasted Warner Bros. Discovery Wednesday afternoon for Max’s “devaluation of the individual contributions of artists.”“For almost 90 years, the Directors Guild has fought fiercely to protect the credit and recognition deserved by Directors for the work they create,” Glatter said, insisting that what happened with Max is part of a pattern the unions are…

Jayson Tatum apologized to Janet Jackson for delaying her tour.The Boston Celtics beat the Atlanta Hawks 128-120 on Thursday night to win their first-round NBA playoff series, which pushed back Jackson’s Atlanta concert for her Together Again tour to Friday night.“I want to send an apology to the legend Janet Jackson,” Tatum said in a TV interview following his team’s win. “We was supposed to close out in Boston—she had to postpone her show. I hope she sees this. I apologize for that. But we got it done today.”The Celtics…

Bad Bunny offered an apology to Harry Styles during his headlining set at the second weekend of the Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival Friday. While Benito was performing in front of fans, an apology to the Harry’s House singer appeared on the screen near the stage that read: “Sorry Harry it was a mistake from my team. We love you. The apology came a week after the Puerto Rican megastar performed “El Apagón” during Coachella’s opening weekend and had a different message that mentioned Styles…

Bad Bunny apologized to Harry Styles during Coachella Weekend 2 after appearing to throw shade at the “As It Was” hitmaker last week.During Bad Bunny’s set at the music festival on Friday, an apology to Styles was displayed on a screen near the stage: “Sorry Harry,” the message read, “it was a mistake from my team. We love you. <3”The image was intended to set the record straight about a different message that appeared on the same screen last Friday. During the Puerto Rican reggaeton sensation’s Weekend 1 performance…

A German publisher has fired one of its magazine's editors and apologized to the family of Michael Schumacher for publishing a fake interview with the Formula One great that was generated by artificial intelligence."This tasteless and misleading article should never have appeared. It does not in any way correspond to the standards of journalism that we - and our readers - expect from a publisher like Funke," Funke magazines managing director Bianca Pohlmann said on Saturday.Pohlmann said Funke was firing the chief editor…

Lil Nas X offered an apology that wasn’t entirely well received.The artist received criticism when he posted a joke on Twitter and Instagram about transitioning. “The surgery was successful,” the 23-year-old wrote alongside an image of a woman he later shouted out as IG user @glowprincess.In one reply, when asked why he was “making transitioning a punchline of a joke,” Lil Nas X tweeted and deleted, “im literally just saying she looks like me y’all cannot be fuckin serious.”He went on to try making amends. “Apologies to…

A Twitter Inc. employee trying to gain clarity as to whether he was fired was mocked by Chief Executive Officer Elon Musk, who chatted openly about the worker's disability status to other people on Twitter — before apologizing a day later. Halli Thorleifsson, a senior director whose design firm Ueno was bought by Twitter in 2021, tweeted at Musk on Monday that his access to a work computer had been revoked, and that he wasn't able to receive an answer from human resources as to whether he still worked at the company.…