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How AI is helping the NFL improve player safety

CIO

Like many other professional sports leagues, the NFL has been at the leading edge of data-driven transformation for years. Souza says this is true of all businesses, not just sports. There were all these hunches and things like that, stuff they knew in their gut. Tell me what you know instinctively and let’s put math to it.

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How Edge as a Service is shaping the future of fan engagement

CIO

Amaury Sport Organisation (A.S.O.), We started working on Tour de France in 2015 and, when we began, the digital capability of the event was very limited,” says Peter Gray, Senior Vice President, Advanced Technology Group (Sport) at NTT. Lots of information was captured manually and communicated over race radio.

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NSA leader to hackers: Cybersecurity’s a team sport

The Parallax

Cybersecurity really is a team sport. The Office of Personnel Management breach in 2015, which was attributed to China, as well as Russia’s use of VPNFilter to attack infrastructure and its hacking of U.S. ally—notably on the intelligence front. We, in government, absolutely recognize we can’t do this alone,” he said. “If

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NHL turns to venue metrics data to drive sustainability

CIO

It followed that in 2014 with the first sustainability report issued by a North American professional sports league and, in 2015, a commitment to counterbalance the league’s entire carbon footprint for three consecutive seasons. The NHL can influence and promote practices among its franchisees but cannot mandate them.

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Draymond Green isn’t starting a fund, but is working with top VCs

TechCrunch

Green — who once told CNBC that he wanted to become a billionaire by age 40 — has been an active investor in startups for several years, beginning in 2015 with SmileDirectClub. And Bill Lee is one of the co-founders of Craft Ventures, alongside which Green has invested in the past.

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Cloud storage startup Wasabi raises $250M to reach unicorn status

TechCrunch

Wasabi launched just a few years ago, in 2015. ” Friend and Flowers joined forces in 2015 to start Wasabi, when Friend was still the CEO of cloud backup company Carbonite. That’s up from 30% in 2015, the year the analytics firm began tracking the trend. ” That statement isn’t necessarily hyperbolic.

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Plastic upcycling startup Novoloop raises $10M Series A extension to accelerate commercialization

TechCrunch

Founded in 2015 by Jeanny Yao and Wang, both discovered the massive problem of plastics starting with a field trip to the Vancouver South Waste Transfer Station. Its first product Oistre is a thermoplastic polyurethane (TPU), a technical material for use in durable products like shoes, apparel, sporting goods, electronics and cars.

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