Washington, D.C. – October 19, 2026 -- ConnectDER's full line of meter socket adapters is now approved for installation across Pepco's service territory in Washington, D.C., a market where 100-amp panels can force main service upgrades costing $1,800 to $5,800 before solar, storage or EV charging equipment can be connected. D.C. becomes the 54th utility in ConnectDER's network, which reaches nearly 40 million households.

Atlanta – October 19, 2026 -- Scientific Games' U.S. instant scratch game production facility, which serves nearly every U.S. state lottery, has achieved Level 2 certification under the World Lottery Association Security Control Standard 2024 (WLA-SCS:2024). Level 2 is the highest certification level for lottery suppliers under the standard.

The plant, located at the company's global headquarters in metro Atlanta, is the world's largest lottery scratch game production facility. It has held WLA security certification since 2011.

New York – October 19, 2026 -- Andover Properties has acquired a self storage facility of nearly 46,000 net rentable square feet (NRSF) in Pinehurst, Texas, expanding its Texas portfolio to 48 assets.

The property at 35335 State Highway 249 was built in 2015 and offers a mix of climate-controlled and drive-up units. A local, independent owner previously operated it.

New York – October 19, 2026 -- Amsterdam Nursing Home has been ranked #36 among New York nursing homes with 150 beds or more in Newsweek's America's Best Nursing Homes 2027, its fourth consecutive year on the list.

Newsweek and Statista screen 14,693 facilities to select 1,325

The 2027 ranking recognizes 1,325 of the nation's top nursing homes out of 14,693 analyzed, meaning roughly 9% of the facilities evaluated made the cut. Newsweek compiles the list each year with the global data research firm Statista.

Las Vegas – October 19, 2026 -- Coinbase will integrate Thunes' Direct Global Network for fiat payouts, while Thunes will run its stablecoin infrastructure on Coinbase's stablecoin solutions, the companies announced at Money20/20 USA.

Austin – October 19, 2026 -- Digital Turbine (Nasdaq: APPS) will report its fiscal 2027 second-quarter financial results and operating progress on Monday, November 2, at 4:30pm ET (1:30pm PT) in a conference call and webcast.

CEO Bill Stone and Interim CFO Josh Kinsell host the earnings call

Chief Executive Officer Bill Stone and Interim Chief Financial Officer Josh Kinsell will lead the session. Investors can join by webcast or by telephone using separate U.S. and international dial-in numbers.

Boca Raton – October 19, 2026 -- Empyrean Medical Systems has submitted a 510(k) premarket notification to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration for Vektra, its robotically assisted brachytherapy and intraoperative radiation therapy (IORT) system, completing a planned milestone in the company's move into clinical radiation oncology.

Cambridge – October 19, 2026 -- AI agents left alone on a virtual island for 30 hours outperformed fresh copies on a specific task, according to a new MIT paper that has not yet been peer-reviewed. The agents, copies of Claude Opus 4.7 nicknamed Eko, had no instructions beyond a prompt describing them as "naturally curious."

Global – October 19, 2026 -- Tech stocks shed over $1 trillion on Friday as investors grew nervous that AI companies may not turn sustainable profits, NBC reported.

Microsoft also pulled out of a giant AI cloud deal in the UK, according to Gizmodo. The report adds to concerns about the economics of large-scale AI infrastructure.

Hoboken – October 19, 2026 -- MiniOrange CEO Anirban Mukherji will tell small and midsize business executives on October 21, 2026, that stolen credentials, not malware, are now the primary entry point for attacks, as eMazzanti Technologies hosts its annual ASPIRE 2026 conference at the Microsoft Conference Center in New York City's Times Square.