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Niantic tries its hand at sports with NBA All-World

TechCrunch

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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Live-streaming platform BoxCast raises $20M

TechCrunch

Co-founder and CEO Gordon Daily said that when the company first launched in 2013, “streaming wasn’t something that everyone understood,” and you needed professional help to live stream anything. BoxCast , a Cleveland-based company aiming to make it easy to live stream any event, has raised $20 million in Series A funding.

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Israel’s cybersecurity industry is a unicorn. Here’s why

The Parallax

Cybersecurity is a true blood sport,” Netanyahu quipped. In 2013, more than a decade after deciding to direct its Shin Bet security agency to protect critical infrastructure computer systems, Israel created a consolidated campus for cybersecurity in the desert city of Be’ersheba. million people living in a space about the size of Fiji.

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#742 My Body, My Pixels: A Deep Dive on Digital Autonomy with Todd Zywicki, Professor of Law at George Mason University

Modern CTO

From 2013-2017 and 2010-2014 he was among the ten most-cited faculty in the field of Commercial Law. In 2013 he was invited to deliver a Vision Series Lecture at George Mason University (watch here). In 2013 he delivered the Jack R.

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New Applied ML Research: Few-shot Text Classification

Cloudera

For example, a new product line is introduced that doesn’t fit with any existing product categories; or new forums and topic threads are created organically by users. A “game” is a singular event in “sports,” while a “company” is a singular entity that conducts “business.” We’re talking about text embeddings, of course.

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The Power of Asking

Mills Scofield

Meanwhile, one of my mentees, Sidney Kushner, has been creating CCChampions , an organization that creates connections between professional athletes and children with cancer to provide a source of inspiration and excitement during a very trying time in children’s lives. Sidney’s compassion, drive and entrepreneurial savvy are contagious.

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Healthcare Data: A Puzzling Game in Need of a Change

Progress

ZB of data was produced in 2013, and it estimated that 44 ZB of healthcare data will be produced yearly by 2020—a tenfold increase in seven years. With all the data that is being collected, healthcare organizations have the opportunity to leverage it to drive patient outcomes and lower overall healthcare spend. The Path Forward.