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A section of a water slide broke on Royal Caribbean’s Icon of the Seas and injured a passenger Thursday, according to the cruise line.

“Our team provided medical care to an adult guest when acrylic glass broke off a water slide as the guest passed through the slide,” according to a Royal Caribbean Group spokesperson. “The guest is being treated for his injuries. The water slide is closed for the remainder of the sailing pending an investigation.”

The vessel that became the world’s largest cruise ship when it debuted in 2024 sails seven-night Caribbean itineraries out of Miami. A sister ship named Star of the Seas, which features the same six-slide water park, is set to debut this month out of Port Canaveral.

Part of the Category 6 water park, the slide in question is called the Frightening Bolt, which sends riders through a tube with a translucent section near the top. Riders are dropped through a bomb-bay door apparatus into the 46-foot-tall slide, which is touted as the tallest in the industry. read more

By MICHELLE CHAPMAN, Associated Press Business Writer

Intel CEO Lip-Bu Tan says he’s “always operated within the highest legal and ethical standards” after President Donald Trump said he should resign.

On Thursday Trump said on Truth Social platform that, “The CEO of Intel is highly CONFLICTED and must resign, immediately. There is no other solution to this problem. Thank you for your attention to this problem!”

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Trump’s post landed after Sen. Tom Cotton sent a letter to Intel Chairman Frank Yeary expressing concern over Tan’s investments and ties to semiconductor firms that are reportedly linked to the Chinese Communist Party and the People’s Liberation Army, and asked the board whether Tan had divested his interests in these companies to eliminate any conflicts of interest. read more

Film is almost finished at the Dr. Phillips CineDome at Orlando Science Center. The museum is moving into the digital age, and the final reel-to-reel viewings are scheduled for Tuesday afternoon.

The renovated eight-story space will be outfitted with a new domed screen, audio system, seats and an 8k full-dome digital projection system with up to 10 projectors.

Since the Loch Haven Park museum opened in 1997, visitors have been able to watch giant reels of film loaded into the Iwerks projector in a glass-enclosed, climate-controlled room on the ground floor. The projector then glides upward 18 feet to pop out in a central location among the theater seats to start the show.
“It’s something that was cutting edge in 1997, and now it’s a museum piece,” said Jeff Stanford, vice president of marketing.

Technology has advanced and the science center is one of the last giant-screen theaters in the U.S. to be using film. That has resulted in limitations as to what can be seen in the CineDome. read more

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WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump unexpectedly summoned reporters to the Oval Office on Thursday to present them with charts that he says show the U.S. economy is solid following a jobs report last week that raised red flags and led to the Republican firing the head of the Bureau of Labor Statistics.

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Joining Trump to talk about the economy was Stephen Moore, a senior visiting fellow in economics at the Heritage Foundation, a conservative think tank, and the co-author of the 2018 book “ Trumponomics.” read more

By BARBARA ORTUTAY

Roblox, the online gaming platform wildly popular with children and teenagers, is rolling out an open-source version of an artificial intelligence system it says can help preemptively detect predatory language in game chats.

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The move comes as the company faces lawsuits and criticism accusing it of not doing enough to protect children from predators. For instance, a lawsuit filed last month in Iowa alleges that a 13-year-old girl was introduced to an adult predator on Roblox, then kidnapped and trafficked across multiple states and raped. The suit, filed in Iowa District Court in Polk County, claims that Roblox’s design features make children who use it “easy prey for pedophiles.” read more