Author: Maverick Studios
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Lumbee Council advances gaming amendment in North Carolina, sending measure to tribal voters soon
The Lumbee Tribal Council voted Thursday night (April 16) to move a constitutional amendment forward that would allow gaming on Lumbee tribal land, setting up a future vote for tribal members after hours of testimony and debate. Council leaders said the proposal is meant to put the final decision in the hands of Lumbee citizens…
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DraftKings Alberta entry signals Canada gambling market legal shift ahead
DraftKings is lining up for Alberta, and the timing says as much as the announcement itself. The company disclosed on Thursday (April 16) that it plans to bring its sportsbook and casino products to the province, subject to licensing. Alberta is preparing to open a private online market, making it only the second province after…
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A Humanoid Robot Set a Half-Marathon Record in China
An autonomous robot from the company Honor ran a half marathon in 50:26, beating the human record by 7 minutes.
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Ben McKenzie Says Crypto Has a Secret Ingredient: Male Loneliness
The actor-director discussed his least favorite currency and read a series of mean tweets—about us!—at our inaugural WIRED@Night event.
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Apple CEO Tim Cook Is Stepping Down
John Ternus, the company’s senior vice president of hardware engineering, will replace Cook as CEO on September 1. Cook will stay on as executive chairman.
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A Hot-Air Balloon Landed in a California Backyard. The Owner Says It’s a ‘Very Rare’ Event
Denni Barrett, CEO of Magical Adventures Balloon Rides, says the weekend backyard mishap is a “very rare” occurrence.
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Accelerate Generative AI Inference on Amazon SageMaker AI with G7e Instances
As the demand for generative AI continues to grow, developers and enterprises seek more flexible, cost-effective, and powerful accelerators to meet their needs. Today, we are thrilled to announce the availability of G7e instances powered by NVIDIA RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell Server Edition GPUs on Amazon SageMaker AI. You can provision nodes with 1, 2,…
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War Memes Are Turning Conflict Into Content
The jokes were funny. The systems behind them—and the reasons we keep passing around war memes as entertainment—are more serious.
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ToolSimulator: scalable tool testing for AI agents
You can use ToolSimulator, an LLM-powered tool simulation framework within Strands Evals, to thoroughly and safely test AI agents that rely on external tools, at scale. Instead of risking live API calls that expose personally identifiable information (PII), trigger unintended actions, or settling for static mocks that break with multi-turn workflows, you can use ToolSimulator’s large…