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Disney Is Preparing to Say Goodbye to Hulu as Streaming Enters a New Era

For the last decade streaming taught viewers to use many different apps: there was a Netflix corner and a Disney+ corner, alongside Hulu, HBO Max, Paramount Plus and others. That brand-driven era is shifting. Disney’s push to fold Hulu into Disney+ suggests the future of streaming will center on

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IREN Enters Europe With Spanish AI Data Center Acquisition

Bitcoin miner IREN has completed its acquisition of the Spanish data center developer Nostrum Group, marking its entry into Europe as the company builds out its artificial intelligence cloud business. The deal adds about 490 megawatts of secured, grid-connected power in Spain, along with a development pipeline and over 50

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Fox buys Roku streaming service for $22 billion

Fox Corp. announced it plans to buy the Roku streaming service in a deal valued at $22 billion. The company agreed to a $160-per-share transaction paid in a combination of cash and Fox Class A common stock, giving Roku a $22 billion enterprise value and an expected close in the

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Real estate mogul Kent Swig evicted from Midtown office over $450k in back rent

On June 2, Kent Swig was evicted from his Midtown office at 747 Third Avenue after allegedly falling behind on more than $450,000 in rent. A city marshal entered the space and removed the company; belongings remain inside. Employees were told they had 30 minutes to pack before the

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EA Plans to Expand Advertising Across Its Games

Electronic Arts announced a new initiative to add more advertising to its games, expanding on its already commercial-packed sports division. Calling the effort EA Advertising, the company describes its games as "spaces" where "brands come to play alongside" players. "Players come to EA’s games

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A £350 swimming pool fee ruined our easyJet holiday

My partner and I paid £2,150 for a week’s all-inclusive break in Marrakech with easyJet Holidays and chose the Jaal Riad Resort Hotel because of its pool and spa. When we arrived, we were told use of the heated pool cost £24 a person an hour, the Jacuzzi

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Recommendations based on testing, research and customer feedback

Recommendations are based on many hours of testing, research, and comparison shopping. We gather data from vendor and retailer listings as well as other relevant and independent review sites, and we pore over customer reviews to find out what matters to real people who already own and use the products

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EA launches EA Advertising to put targeted ads directly into games

EA has formed EA Advertising, a new platform designed to help real-world brands place ads "directly into gameplay and live experiences." The company says the program will be folded into its global portfolio of games, with an emphasis on EA Sports titles. The platform offers dynamic, targeted ad

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Taylor Sheridan Leaves Paramount in 2028: What It Means for Yellowstone

Taylor Sheridan is set to leave Paramount in 2028 after closing a $1 billion, five-year movie-and-television deal with NBCUniversal in late 2025. The NBCUniversal deal begins January 1, 2029, when Sheridan’s TV deal with Paramount officially ends. His producing partner David Glasser and 101 Studios are moving with him.

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EA launches 'EA Advertising' to place brands inside its games

Almost exactly two years ago EA CEO Andrew Wilson said the company was exploring ways to add more advertising to games: "We have teams internally in the company right now looking at how we do very thoughtful implementations inside of our game experiences." The publisher has now unveiled

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Xbox weighs closing Double Fine, Ninja Theory and other studios

Microsoft is considering shutting down several acclaimed Xbox studios, including Double Fine, Ninja Theory and Compulsion Games, Bloomberg reported. Compulsion is the studio behind South of Midnight, and Ninja Theory only recently announced a third Hellblade game, titled Senua, during the Xbox Games Showcase on June 7. Bloomberg said the

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Nvidia $20B Bond Sale Bolsters Miners' Shift into AI

Bloomberg reported that Nvidia is seeking to raise at least $20 billion through a multi-part bond sale to finance AI investments and refinance existing debt. The notes would span seven maturities from two to 30 years, with the longest bonds expected to yield roughly 0.9 percentage points above comparable

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Santa Ragione says Horses left studio $42,000 in debt

Horses, Santa Ragione’s 2025 surrealist horror game that was banned from both the Steam and Epic Games storefronts, has left its developer and publisher in a $42,000 hole, according to an official press release. The studio says release on GOG, Itch, and Humble brought 30,000 individual sales

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EA's new advertising platform will put more ads in its sports games

Electronic Arts has launched EA Advertising, a platform designed to expand how brands appear across its games and in real-world experiences. The company says it will deliver dynamic, real-time placements that bring digital sports titles closer to their ad-heavy real-life counterparts, echoing existing Lowe's sponsorships in its football

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Wolfgang Puck's daily rules for a lasting restaurant empire

Wolfgang Puck, a 76-year-old chef who came to the US from Europe and opened Spago in West Hollywood in 1982, has spent more than 60 years building his restaurant business. He now oversees more than 100 fine-dining and casual eateries worldwide, and still spends most nights in his restaurants tasting

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Fox to buy Roku in $22 billion deal

Fox Corp is acquiring Roku in a $22 billion deal that will give the media company access to Roku’s installed base of 100 million households. Fox shareholders will own about 73% of the combined company after closing, which is expected in the first half of 2027. Roku, the U.

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Metrics - NASA

The FY26 Services Catalog provides service description, chargeback rate, unit of measure, and service level indicators for each NSSC service. The Service Level Agreement explains roles, responsibilities, rates, and service level indicators for all NASA Centers. It is negotiated on an annual basis in line with the fiscal year, and

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SpaceX share price rises on second day of trading

SpaceX's stock climbed on its second day as a listed company following a blockbuster initial public offering. On Friday the company began trading on the Nasdaq after the biggest IPO in market history, raising $75 billion and reaching a market capitalization just shy of $2 trillion. The stock

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Fox to acquire Roku in $22 billion deal

Fox has agreed to acquire the connected-TV platform Roku in a transaction paid with a mix of cash and stock, valuing Roku at about $22 billion, the company said. The acquisition will pair Fox’s sports, news, and entertainment programming with Roku’s streaming devices and digital-ad business. Fox CEO

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Gas prices fall for third week but remain above $4 a gallon

Gas prices in the US have fallen for three straight weeks, easing some pain at the pump. AAA data showed the national average for a gallon of regular was $4.12 at the time of the group's release, down from a May high of $4.56; by Monday

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StubHub laid him off, he turned to restaurant work in New York City

Steven Lowe landed a six-figure art director role at StubHub in early 2024 — the highest-paying job of his career and the first time he could comfortably make his student loan payments. A little over a year later, he was laid off. Reentering the job market after nine years at Boxed

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Traders torn about SpaceX's future after dominant stock-market debut

Watching SpaceX's IPO debut, the author drew a parallel to a young LeBron James — anointed as the next big thing who lived up to and even exceeded expectations. SpaceX arrived with similar hype, touting ambitions of colonizing Mars and attracting intense investor interest despite not being profitable. The

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Millennial reached financial independence in three years with two levers

Cody Berman more than quadrupled his income in three years while keeping his spending largely unchanged, and that widening gap is what let him reach financial independence before his 26th birthday. He says many people pursuing FIRE get lost in tax and account nuances, but his approach was straightforward: pull

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CFTC Pulls New Mexico Into Prediction Markets Battle

The Commodity Futures Trading Commission sued New Mexico Governor Michelle Lujan Grisham, state Attorney General Raúl Torrez and members of the New Mexico Gaming Control Board in federal court, asking the court to block the state from applying its gaming laws to CFTC-registered contract markets. New Mexico had sued prediction

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I tested side hustles for 100 days — 3 I still use

Jackie Mitchell, a 28-year-old content creator in Columbus, Ohio, turned to side hustles when she and her husband needed extra money for a down payment on their first home. She documented a TikTok series with the goal of making $100 a day for 100 days, focusing on reputable gigs she