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YC and a16z back virtual reality basketball app Gym Class

TechCrunch

spending billions of dollars on virtual reality tech every fiscal quarter, the wider VR startup ecosystem has been having a tough few years coming down from the highs of 2016, when investors dumped money into the sector expecting Oculus-sized returns only to see most of their investments slowly wilt away. Despite Zuckerberg & Co.

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10 celebri disastri provocati dall’intelligenza artificiale

CIO

Air Canada paga i danni per le bugie del chatbot Nel febbraio del 2024, Air Canada è stata condannata a pagare i danni a un passeggero [in inglese] dopo che il suo assistente virtuale gli aveva fornito informazioni errate in un momento particolarmente difficile.

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Meet the 5 judges who will pick the 2021 winner of TechCrunch Disrupt’s Startup Battlefield

TechCrunch

Twenty startups competed this week on the TechCrunch virtual stage for $100,000 in equity-free prize money and last night, we announced the finalists: Adventr , Cellino , Koa , Nth Cycle and Tatum. During his time at CBSi, Lanzone led the creation, launch and growth of streaming services CBS All Access, CBSN and CBS Sports HQ.

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Gaming is Eating Media… and Pokemon is Just the Start

Battery Ventures

Gaming has become so popular that more people are now watching professional gaming teams—part of the larger trends of e-sports–than some major, traditional sporting events. sports markets, Boston and Los Angeles. million people watched the e-sports League of Legends Championship Tournament. Meanwhile, 78.5

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AoAD2 Practice: Alignment

James Shore

Maybe you’ve had that experience, too: being part of a great sports team, a band, or a volunteer group. 1 This agenda is based on [Larsen and Nies 2016] (Chapter 6), with some changes. Next, prepare a whiteboard, flipchart, or portion of your virtual shared workspace with three columns. When teams work, they’re electrifying.

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The fundamental problem with Silicon Valley’s favorite growth strategy

O'Reilly Media - Ideas

But if they hadn’t been given virtually unlimited capital to offer rides at subsidized prices taxicabs couldn’t match in order to grow their user base at blitzscaling speed, would they be offering their service for less than it actually costs to deliver? Sweet Labs , one of OATV’s early portfolio companies, has done the same.