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Niantic tries its hand at sports with NBA All-World

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Being that I’m not much of a sports person — my preferred type of game involves controllers and screens — I hadn’t given All-World much thought until Darrell Etherington, TechCrunch’s managing editor, assigned me to write a first impressions piece. As a sports ignoramus, I can’t speak on the former point.

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7 ways CIOs can build a high-performance team

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Having a clear vantage point within the organization, CIOs play a vital role bringing together engaged and motivated employees to work toward a common outcome, increase productivity, and achieve better business outcomes. That’s when a high-performance team takes shape. Prioritise culture Seugnet van den Berg, founder, Bizmod.

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Sorare teams up with the Premier League for its NFT fantasy football game

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This is an important move for the company as the English football league is one of the most-watched sports league in the world. Sorare is a fantasy sports gaming experience based on NFTs, or non-fungible tokens. They can then put together a lineup of five players and earn points based on real-life performances.

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With generative AI, IT must deliver knowledge…not just technology

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GenAI has been estimated to increase skilled worker performance by up to 40% with the potential to add trillions of dollars in value to the global economy. IT organizations have responded in kind, with 52% already building or deploying GenAI solutions according to Dell research 1. And for good reason.

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Data-Driven Performance Feedback Helps Teams Improve Customer Outcomes

Speaker: Mickey Mantle, Founder and CEO at Wanderful Interactive Storybooks | Ron Lichty, Consultant: Interim VP Engineering, Author, Ron Lichty Consulting, Inc.

In order to be successful at delivering software, organizations need to become data-driven. And in the era of agile, which recognizes that software development is a team sport, performance reviews need to use data for programmer growth and to give focus to business results. How data-driven performance reviews do that.

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The use cases for a private wireless networks are many and increasing

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Adam Leventhal, Managing Partner, 5G and mobile edge computing innovation at Verizon Business, points out that adoption of private 5G networks is increasing rapidly in industries where the performance of legacy wired, Wi-Fi and public cellular networks can fall short.

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A CIO primer on addressing perceived AI risks

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Others will use AI to automate tasks currently performed by the humans they employ. In nature, organisms that hunt and kill other organisms are either predators that want food, or competitors for the same resources. Each baker’s performance falls on a bell curve. They can, and some will. Or, more likely, they’ll do both.