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Niantic tries its hand at sports with NBA All-World

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The only team I’ve ever followed is the Cleveland Cavaliers, and that’s simply because I grew up near Cleveland (and, well, LeBron’s stardom didn’t hurt). Why’d the studio choose this sport for its next AR venture? Their in-game team members don this merch, some of which improves their game stats.

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Event marketing is a ‘team sport,’ and Vendelux is coaching companies to find the best ROI

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Two former Shutterstock execs, Alex Reynolds and Stefan Deeran, were working together monetizing APIs and computer vision, and having attended some of those bad events, thought there could be a better way to make decisions on what events should be at the top of the list and which company team members should go to maximize return on investment. “We

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Computer vision transforms tennis coaching at Billie Jean King Cup

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With centuries of tradition behind it, tennis as a sport has been highly resistant to change. It’s fair to say that tennis has lived up to its roots as a traditional sport,” says Mat Pemble, executive director of IT for the International Tennis Federation (ITF), the sport’s governing body.

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Do Americans want to gamble on individual athletes? Marc Lore is betting on it

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Mojo , a seven-month-old, New York-based company, says it’s looking to build a new sports stock market that lets fans bet on athletes just like stocks. “The question here is whether people would want to buy and sell derivative equity in an athlete when they can also just now bet directly on games and performance.

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LLMs come to workplace morale monitoring, as Loopin raises $1.9M for its platform

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After leaving the armed forces, Ben went into coaching leadership teams at corporates, including the England Football Team and Manchester United. On the surface of Loopin is the daily ‘check-in’ via Slack or Microsoft Teams. The company says it already has 40 paying customers including Reed, Farfetch and JD Sports.

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Static vs Dynamic Code Analysis: How to Choose Between Them

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Let’s start with a sporting analogy to help illustrate the difference between these two methodologies. These include common developer errors which are often found by “Code Peer Reviews”. In which stage of the SDLC (Software Development Lifecycle) can we use Static code analysis? There are minimal surprises. Limitations.

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Building Strong Leaders: The Importance of Leadership Development

Experience to Lead

Let’s explore why leadership development is important, as well as the benefits and challenges of effective leadership development. Defining Leadership Development In simple terms, leadership development is a set of activities that equip current and future leaders with the tools they need to perform effectively in their roles.