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Herald Sun
a day ago
- Business
- Herald Sun
Powerball and Keno operator The Lottery Corporation rolls out $70m upgrade ASX: TLC
Don't miss out on the headlines from Business. Followed categories will be added to My News. Powerball and Keno operator The Lottery Corporation has unveiled a $70m upgrade of its software and terminals, saying it will harness machine learning to create a 'more personalised' experience for its 10 million customers across Australia. TLC, which was spun out of gaming giant Tabcorp three years ago to become its own $11.93bn company, developed its own software in house for the project, eschewing top tech vendors. The upgrade included replacing about 5300 outdated lottery terminals across 3700 retailers, as well as Keno terminals. The new software can identify customer behaviours and prompt retailers to offer deals on different games, TLC chief channel officer Antony Moore said. 'I'll use me as an example. I've got my registered Saturday games, and they [the retailer] will know when it will get to a certain level of jackpot activity – let's call it $30m – that I might be interested in Powerball because the machine learning will see that through my membership activity,' Mr Moore said. 'So when I'm in store buying my Saturday registered tickets, they'll say 'hey Antony, it's $30m on Thursday night, can I interest you in a 24-game QuickPick?' I'll go, 'I hadn't thought about that'. It's personalised to me, rather than just going 'well today's Tuesday do you want an Oz ticket?' ' Nasdaq-listed Scientific Games has provided the hardware for the new terminals, which Mr Moore said would integrate with TLC's machine-learning driven personalised marketing systems. The terminals will feature a customer-facing screen with a scanner and a 'new and improved' ticket checker to validate entries and prizes. TLC chief information officer Loren Somerville said the personalisation was information that was available to the retailer to help the customer experience – similar to what small town outlets were able to offer in the past. 'Having registered customers allows us to personalise, but only as much as the customer wants it to be personalised, and then of course help protect the customer with our responsible gaming and early intervention that we have been working on,' Ms Somerville said. While in-house software has its risks – such as the ability to perform ongoing maintenance and security patches – Ms Somerville said no software company could deliver the product it wanted. 'With our core platforms and our terminal software many years ago, [for] so many years we've been building these solutions because they were the best solution in the market,' Ms Somerville said. 'When we were looking at changing, we looked at if there were better systems now that have caught up to what we are delivering before. Could we just buy it as is and then just integrate it? There were all those things around cost and the risks of maintenance and the ongoing investment that you need to make. 'Generally, some corporates have hit up against this when they build new software platforms. I mean, you wouldn't see a bank trying to build their own core platforms. Even just integrating it can be quite challenging for them. But we have been doing this for many years. We have got a really strong tech capability in-house.' The upgrade also allows TLC to perform software updates remotely. Previously, occasional firmware updates would need to be performed onsite – a cumbersome process given TLS's network of 3700 retailers. 'Rather than just going in and dumping in desktop software, the old-fashioned way, we're deploying as you would with websites,' Ms Somerville said. 'And that means we can do that more frequently, and we can do that based on any sort of data that's coming in.' Originally published as Powerball and Keno operator The Lottery Corporation rolls out $70m upgrade
Yahoo
a day ago
- Business
- Yahoo
Mass. State Lottery: Keno ticket worth $40,000 sold at 7-Eleven
A winning Keno ticket worth $40,000 was sold at a 7-Eleven in Quincy on Saturday. In Keno, players select up to 12 numbers spots to play, and then choose numbers between 1 and 80 to fill each spot. Each number spot offers unique prizes and odds of winning. Players then choose how much they want to wager on each drawing — between $1 and $20 — and how many drawings they want to use the same numbers for. The same numbers can be played in up to 30 consecutive drawings, and drawings take place every day every three minutes from 5:04 a.m. to 1:01 a.m. Players can also multiply their prizes up to 10 times by marking the Keno Bonus. Keno Bonus is not available on the 10 spot, 11 spot or 12 spot. Overall, at least 299 prizes worth $600 or more were won or claimed in Massachusetts on Saturday, including five in Springfield, nine in Worcester and 13 in Boston. The Massachusetts State Lottery releases a full list of winning tickets every day. The list only includes winning tickets worth more than $600. Mass. State Lottery winners: 3 tickets worth $100K won, claimed on Friday Mass. State Lottery winner: 2nd $2M prize claimed from $50 ticket in 2 days Mass. State Lottery winner: $100K prize claimed in $2 game; one grand prize remains Winning $100,000 Mass Cash ticket sold at Chelsea Market Basket Read the original article on MassLive.
Yahoo
a day ago
- Business
- Yahoo
Father gifts daughter winning $2M Mass. lottery ticket from $50 game
The first person to win a $2 million lottery prize in Massachusetts from a new $50 scratch ticket game was gifted the winning ticket by her father. Vanesa Menjivar Acosta, of Norcross, Georgia, won $2 million from '$25,000,000 Mega Money' and claimed her prize on Wednesday. Menjivar Acosta chose the cash option on her prize and received a one-time payment of $1.3 million before taxes. She said she wants to buy a house and go to college with the winnings. The winning $2 million lottery ticket was a gift from her father, Menjivar Acosta told the lottery. He'd bought the ticket at East Boston Corner Market, located at 233 London St. in East Boston. The shop will receive a $20,000 bonus for selling the winning ticket. The game was released on May 13. All three $25 million grand prizes remain to be claimed as of June 2, along with three $2 million and 12 $1 million prizes. Mass. State Lottery: Keno ticket worth $40,000 sold at Quincy 7-Eleven Mass. State Lottery winners: 3 tickets worth $100K won, claimed on Friday Mass. State Lottery winner: 2nd $2M prize claimed from $50 ticket in 2 days Mass. State Lottery winner: $100K prize claimed in $2 game; one grand prize remains Read the original article on MassLive.
Miami Herald
4 days ago
- Miami Herald
Woman buys $5 scratch-off in Maryland and wins big. ‘Couldn't calculate it all'
A woman bought a $5 scratch-off and was left 'overwhelmed' after checking it with her husband, Maryland officials said. The state employee usually plays Keno in addition to scratch-offs and bought a 'handful of them' in Fallston, according to a May 30 news release by the Maryland Lottery. She had no idea one of the Monopoly X20 games she bought would be carrying a $50,000 prize, officials said. The Baltimore County woman usually checks her ticket by scanning the barcode but decided she'd actually scratch it this time, officials said. 'I didn't cheat this time and did it the long way,' she told lottery officials. At first, she scratched the winning numbers, then decided to check her own, officials said. 'I scratched under that 26 and saw $5,000, and thought 'OK, I've won something',' she said in the release. 'Then there was another $5,000 and another. … I just couldn't calculate it all.' That's when she asked her husband for help with the math and his eyes grew 'big,' officials said. The lucky winner said she doesn't have any concrete plans for the money other than to save it, officials said. Fallston is about a 20-mile drive northeast from Baltimore.
Yahoo
5 days ago
- Business
- Yahoo
Winning $100,000 Mass Cash ticket sold at convenience store
A winning Mass Cash ticket worth $100,000 was sold at a convenience store in Weymouth on Saturday. The ticket was purchased for $1 at Pleasant Street General Store. In Mass Cash, players choose five numbers between 1 and 35, then select how many drawings they want to use the same numbers for. Drawings take place daily at 9 p.m. Players win $100,000 if they match all five numbers. Odds of winning the game's largest prize are 1 in 324,632. Overall, at least 321 prizes worth $600 or more were won or claimed in Massachusetts on Saturday, including four in Springfield, six in Worcester and 19 in Boston. The Massachusetts State Lottery releases a full list of winning tickets every day. The list only includes winning tickets worth more than $600. The two largest lottery prizes won so far in 2025 were each worth $15 million. One of the prizes was from a winning 'Diamond Deluxe' scratch ticket sold in Holyoke, and the other was from a '300X' scratch ticket sold on Cape Cod. Mass. State Lottery: Keno ticket worth $120,000 sold at liquor store Mass. State Lottery winner: 1st $1M prize claimed in new game Mass. State Lottery winner: Cumberland Farms sells $100,000 ticket Mass. State Lottery winner: $25K a year for life prize fuels dream vacation Read the original article on MassLive.
