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Hiro Capital puts $2.3M into team sports tracking platform PlayerData — as does Sir Terry Leahy

TechCrunch

Hiro Capital has gradually been making a name for itself as an investor in the area know as “Digital Sports” or DSports for short. based PlayerData uses wearable technology and software tracking to give grass-roots and professional sports teams feedback on their training. It’s now led a $2.3 Edinburgh, U.K.-based

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Getting infrastructure right for generative AI

CIO

You will spend on clusters with high-bandwidth networks to build almost HPC [high-performance computing]-like environments,” warns Peter Rutten, research vice president for performance-intensive computing at IDC. More resource-intensive training is handled on a cluster hosted on Google Cloud Platform.

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From CIO to CEO: IT leaders rise to the top

CIO

Hart leveraged CIO, CISO, CTO, and consulting positions to accelerate his trajectory and was named CEO of Segra, a fiber networking company, last year. The high-tech industry in the United States and globally is one of the most competitive sports in the world,” he says. CEO, CIO, IT Leadership

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The NBA’s digital transformation is a game-changer

CIO

The NBA has also enjoyed a 50% growth in subscribers and 52% increase in viewership this season, the CTO adds, attributing the wins to the NBA’s tight partnership with Microsoft and its three-point action plan that began in earnest three years ago. “We

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6 generative AI hazards IT leaders should avoid

CIO

Settling the months-long writers and actors strikes in Hollywood in early November required the studios to make concessions limiting the ways AI tools can be used to replace human writers and performers. The customer will not let you off the hook for a data breach just because, ‘It was our AI’s fault.’”

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Bringing the Benefits of Athletics to More Kids—Through Esports

Battery Ventures

Esports fandom already rivals that of traditional sports: In 2019, the League of Legends World Championship Finals ( 100 million unique viewers ) eclipsed Super Bowl 53 ( 98 million viewers) in terms of total viewership! Few platforms exist today to support competition, training, development and coaching for amateur players.

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Making Software Development Teams Hum with Ron Lichty

Marcus Blankenship - Podcasts

In this episode of Programming Leadership, Marcus and his guest, Ron Lichty, discuss what makes high-performance teams versus what makes low-performance teams. Most teams already know which category they fall into, but the solution to a low-performing team isn’t always clear. It’s a team that’s high-performance.