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A Florida appeals court has upheld a state law linked to Florida’s gambling overhaul and Seminole Tribe gaming compact, rejecting a challenge from Jefferson County Kennel Club and allowing regulators to move forward with revoking the company’s pari-mutuel wagering permit. In a June 3 decision, the First District Court of Appeal upheld a lower court ruling that favored the Florida Gaming Control Commission. The judges turned away several constitutional arguments raised by Jefferson County Kennel Club, known as JCKC, over a statute that requires regulators to revoke permits held by pari-mutuel operators that did not possess an operating license during…

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The simple story about wireless is a price war: multi-year price locks, free lines, cable carriers underselling the mobile network operators and fixed wireless exceeding everyone’s expectations. A more complex story is revealed by the MNOs’ detailed earnings results. The core price of connectivity has been flat for nearly four years while household income has increased. Net net? The carriers turned themselves into discount storefronts for the services they sell.Reported wireless revenue per line looks like it climbed. Blended across AT&T, T-Mobile and Verizon, postpaid phone ARPU rose from $53.22 in the second half of 2022 to $56.37 in early…

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In 2026, the hype for artificial intelligence agents is louder than ever before. These semi-autonomous programs can “think” and execute well-defined tasks in areas like customer service and software development, typically using language models (LMs). But fields like medical diagnosis and scientific discovery require them to inquire about a vast range of solutions in uncertain environments, which LMs struggle with.Researchers at MIT’s Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL) and Harvard University’s School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS) peered deeper into LMs to understand their main issues in high-stakes settings. Their test: “Battleship,” a classic guessing game that’s helped…

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If you build notebooks for recurring tasks such as daily customer analysis, weekly report generation, or data quality checks in Amazon SageMaker Unified Studio, you’ve likely wanted to run them automatically on a schedule. Until now, there wasn’t a native way to do this. Teams had to manage orchestration separately, even though the interactive notebook experience was already in place. Now, notebook scheduling is available, so you can configure your production workloads to run automatically with minimal manual intervention. In this post, we walk you through the new scheduling and orchestrating capabilities for notebooks in Amazon SageMaker Unified Studio. You…

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Amazon has confirmed that Prime Day 2026 will run from June 23 through June 26, marking a shift away from the July schedule the company has followed in recent years. The shopping event begins on June 23 and will feature hundreds of thousands of deals across categories such as electronics, clothing, beauty products, home goods, kitchen essentials, groceries, and back-to-school items. “Prime Day is the biggest shopping event of the year exclusively for members, whether they’re looking for deals on the latest electronics, getting ahead on back-to-school shopping, or saving on fresh groceries and household essentials,” said Jamil Ghani, vice…

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SpaceX has set its IPO price at $135 per share, putting Elon Musk’s rocket and satellite company on track for one of the largest public listings ever. At that price, SpaceX would raise about $75 billion by selling 555.6 million shares and reach a valuation near $1.77 trillion. The company is expected to list on Nasdaq under the ticker SPCX. According to CNBC’s report on the updated filing, the offering would make SpaceX one of the most valuable public companies in the US if shares trade near the proposed price. MarketWatch reported that proceeds could rise to $85.7 billion if…

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Support CleanTechnica’s work through a Substack subscription or on Stripe. EVs are reaching new levels of market penetration in China. Chinese retail NEV (BEV and PHEV) market share was estimated to be 63% for May, while Chinese wholesale (includes exports) reached 61%, according to CPCA, as reported in CnEVPost. We will have to wait for a more detailed breakdown. While retail EV sales were down 5% YoY in China, they were down less than the overall market and were up 15% MoM to 974,000 units in May. Wholesale (including exports) NEV sales stood at 1.36 million, up 12% YoY and…

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I’d just finished off several waves of fighter planes and attack helicopters headed for the last port still under the control of my desperate nation, keeping our feeble chances alive for one more day. I returned to our base, an aging aircraft carrier, to chat with the corporate bigwig who’d thrown in with our ragtag remainders. He pulled out his smartphone and showed me how he was manipulating photos to make it look like we had more fighter jets than the few we possessed, projecting strength through misinformation.Strangereal is getting a dose of 2026’s reality.As the first Ace Combat game…

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Have you ever noticed how a product that once seemed convenient and reliable can gradually start holding a business back? It has to be updated manually for each customer, multiple versions need to be supported, servers have to be monitored, and issues with access, scalability, and data security constantly need to be addressed. And if the system runs as on-premises software, even a small change can turn into a separate project involving approvals, installation, configuration, compatibility checks, and the risk of disruption for users. Or perhaps you have used such a product yourself: it required installation, depended on a specific…

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The web has quietly become one of the most capable platforms for game development. Advances in WebAssembly, WebGL, and WebGPU have given developers tools that rival native desktop performance, while game engines like Unity and Godot have added robust web export pipelines. However, building games for the browser comes with its own set of constraints including file size, browser compatibility, and the need to quickly capture and maintain the player’s attention. Erik Dubbelboer is a Principal Engineer at Poki which is a web games platform serving over 100 million monthly users. He’s also a game developer himself, with titles including…

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