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Massachusetts vs. Prediction Markets, Celtics Draft, SpaceX Moon · Sunny Mornings Boston

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  Good morning and a warm welcome to your show,
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  Sunny Mornings in Boston. I'm your host, Melissa,
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  and it's Tuesday, February 10th. You'll be interested
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  to know. 30 years ago, today, in 1996, a purpose
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  -built computer called Deep Blue beat the reigning
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  world chess champion, Garry Kasparov, in a match,
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  marking a landmark artificial intelligence victory.
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  This achievement showed that specialized computing
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  systems could outperform human expertise in strategic
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  reasoning and inspired broader investment in
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  research in machine learning and intelligence
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  systems. So now you know. And now it's time for
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  the weather report. This morning it's mostly
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  sunny and it feels like 15 degrees with two mile
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  per hour wind. The sunset will take place at
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  510, and it will rise again tomorrow at 642.
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  It looks like we're in for some partly sunny
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  skies today, with a high near 33 and a light
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  southwest breeze at about five miles per hour,
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  but there's a chance of snow after 4 p .m. Tonight,
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  expect mostly cloudy conditions with snow, a
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  low around 26 and light winds. For all you beach
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  runners out there, the first low tide Tuesday
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  will be at 1145 with a high tide at 6. The nearshore
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  gooey at Cape Cod Bay reads 32 degrees for the
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  water temperature. Looking ahead in the weather.
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  Wednesday is partly sunny with a chance of light
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  snow at a high near 37 with a light west wind
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  of 3 to 9 miles per hour. and only a trace to
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  less than one -half inch possible. Wednesday
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  night will be mostly cloudy with a slight chance
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  of snow before 2 a .m. and a low around 22 as
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  northwest winds remain near 7 miles per hour.
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  Thursday and Friday stay cool and partly to mostly
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  sunny with highs in the low to mid 30s and nights
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  falling into the mid to upper teens with light
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  northwest winds. Bonjour, food enthusiast! This
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  podcast is brought to you by Versailles Cafe
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  and Pastries in Encinitas. Nestled on El Camino
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  Real South, just north of Encinitas Boulevard,
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  this cafe is a haven for culinary delights. Indulge
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  in their amazing Eggs Benedict or their gluten
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  -free crepes. You can grab a panini for lunch
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  or just breeze on through to get your morning
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  coffee. They are open every day from 8 to 5.
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  So stop on by and don't forget to tell them.
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  Sunny mornings send you. In local news, Massachusetts
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  is cracking down on prediction markets that are
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  emerging as rivals to sports betting giants like
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  DraftKings and FanDuel. In response, prediction
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  market platforms Kalshi and PolyMarket are fighting
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  back, arguing they should be regulated by the
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  federal government, not state gaming regulators.
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  Polymarket recently sued Massachusetts Attorney
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  General Andrea Joy Campbell in Boston Federal
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  Court, claiming the state is overstepping its
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  bounds. This lawsuit follows a court ruling that
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  temporarily blocked Kalshi from offering sports
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  wagers in Massachusetts. The U .S. sports betting
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  market has grown into a multi -billion -dollar
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  industry, generating nearly $14 billion in gross
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  revenue in 2024. Now on to sports. Team USA,
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  Curling, has advanced to the mixed doubles gold
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  medal game after a stunning upset over the defending
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  champions. Corey Thies and Corey Drakken finished
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  the round -robin session with a record of six
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  wins and three losses, making history as the
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  first American mixed doubles team to reach the
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  medal round since the discipline was introduced
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  in the Winter Olympics in 2018. In the semifinal,
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  they face Stefania Constantini and Amos Mosaner
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  from Team Italy, the 2022 gold medalist. After
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  a nail -biting match, Team USA won 9 -8, thanks
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  to a clutch final shot from Thiesse. They will
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  now compete against Sweden for the gold medal
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  on Tuesday. In local sports, the Celtics may
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  face a tough decision in the upcoming NBA expansion
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  draft, As reports suggest, the league could vote
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  to add two new teams this summer. If approved,
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  the Cs would need to protect players from their
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  deep roster, which could lead to losing a valuable
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  asset. Top candidates to protect include Jason
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  Tatum, Jalen Brown, Tarek White, Peyton Pritchard,
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  Nemeus Queda, and Sam Hauser. The final spot
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  could come down to rookie players Baylor Scheierman
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  or Jordan Malsch. with Scheherman currently having
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  the edge based on recent performance. This scenario
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  presents a challenging choice for the Cs as they
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  strategize for the future. Wednesday night, the
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  34 and 19 Celtics are at home facing the 24 and
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  29 Bulls. In top news, protein shakes are widely
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  available and often marketed as convenient meal
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  alternatives. which may leave you wondering whether
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  you can have protein shakes instead of meals.
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  Replacing meals with protein shakes can affect
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  your body in different ways, depending on the
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  shake's nutrient content. Most commercial protein
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  shakes provide 20 to 30 grams of protein per
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  serving. Protein shakes provide a quick, easy
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  way to consume protein, making it easier to increase
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  overall protein intake. When a protein shake
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  replaces a meal, consider which nutrients may
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  be missing. In most cases, protein shakes work
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  best as a supplement, rather than a routine replacement
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  for whole meals. In business news, Elon Musk
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  says that SpaceX will prioritize the establishment
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  of a self -growing city on the moon instead of
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  a colony on Mars. This decision marks a significant
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  shift in Musk's space exploration ambitions.
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  In a post on his social media platform X, Musk
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  stated that a lunar city could be built within
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  the next decade. He emphasized that the mission
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  of SpaceX remains the same, to extend consciousness
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  and life as we know it to the stars. Musk indicated
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  that SpaceX would resume a Mars efforts in the
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  next five to seven years, but building on the
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  moon would be more efficient. In crypto movement,
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  Bitcoin is down 9%. to about $70 ,000. Ethereum
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  is down 8 % to just over $2 ,000. And XRP is
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  down 10 % to $1 .45. Moving on to a more local
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  vibe. In our community spotlight on health and
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  wellness, we are working with a national Pilates
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  studio to bring you some free classes, so listen
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  up. Check out Club Pilates. With several locations
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  in the Boston area, Pilates presents a comprehensive
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  wellness approach, cultivating strength, reducing
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  tension, and elevating mental well -being. Scientific
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  research affirms its benefits. So now you can
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  check out Club Pilates for a free class. With
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  locations in Canton, Wellesley, Hingham, Brookline,
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  and Framingham, just be sure to tell them Sunny
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  Morning sent you by. And now, back to the show.
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  Let's talk science. Ripples in spacetime from
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  a pair of merging black holes have been recorded
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  in unprecedented detail, enabling physicists
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  to test predictions of general relativity. The
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  loudest collision ever recorded has allowed scientists
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  to confirm that Einstein's theory is correct.
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  In 2025, an international collaboration detected
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  a powerful ripple, produced by this merger. The
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  detectors are more sensitive than when LIGO made
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  its first detection in 2016. Researchers tested
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  Stephen Hawking's theorem and found it to be
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  correct with nearly 100 % confidence. Kief Mittman
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  and colleagues further tested whether the merger
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  conforms with Einstein's general relativity.
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  They found that the measured frequencies matched
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  closely with Einstein's predictions. And in entertainment
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  news, YouTube TV is introducing lower -priced
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  sports and news packages. The Google -owned pay
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  TV service announced on Monday that it will roll
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  out more than 10 plans, priced below a full YouTube
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  TV subscription, which offers more than 100 channels.
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  This introduction responds to growing consumer
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  frustration over rising costs, as the service
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  currently costs $82 a month. The sports plan
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  will be available this fall for $64 a month,
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  offering four broadcast networks that carry the
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  NFL, along with various sports channels. New
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  subscribers will receive an introductory rate
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  of $54 a month. Well, all righty, folks. It's
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  time for the quote of the day. And today, our
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  quote comes from the American computer scientist
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  and pioneer of artificial intelligence, Marvin
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  Minsky. And he said, And that's a wrap for this
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  morning. You can check out our Instagram, YouTube,
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  and TikTok for some captivating aerial videos.
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  with local news and the weather reports. Have
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  an amazing day, my good friends. We'll see you
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  tomorrow with another episode of Sunny Mornings
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  in Boston.