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Veo raises $25M for AI-based cameras that record and analyze football and other team sports

TechCrunch

Sports have been among some of the most popular and lucrative media plays in the world, luring broadcasters, advertisers and consumers to fork out huge sums to secure the chance to watch (and sponsor) their favorite teams and athletes. Even with the slowdown in a lot of sporting activity this year due to COVID — in the U.K.

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Microsoft partners with AiFi to launch Smart Store Analytics, a tracking service for cashierless outlets

TechCrunch

In partnership with AiFi , a startup that aims to enable retailers to deploy autonomous shopping tech cost-effectively, Microsoft today launched a preview of a cloud service called Smart Store Analytics. It might sound like a lot of personal data Smart Store Analytics is collecting. million purchases to date.

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Irish eSports giant’s new startup bets big on rugby in bid for US market share

TechCrunch

A fantasy sports exchange founded by Irish betting veteran Paddy Power is bringing NFT-enabled live trading to rugby fans in a bid to expand globally. ASX Sports launched in May 2021 and took its exchange live on the Apple and Android app stores earlier this month. million active rugby fans, per sports analytics firm Gemba.

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

CIO

Some of the use cases he sees gaining momentum include those where virtual reality is used to enhance employee training and support in-field maintenance, wearable devices that track and share health and environmental safety information, and retail and crowd analytics.

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How Big Data Has Transformed Sports

BrainStation Technology

In a relatively short period of time, big data has become a big business in professional sports. The market for sports analytics is expected to reach almost $4 billion by 2022, and teams around the world are racing to find a competitive advantage. The way we play may soon never be the same. And big data played a big role. .

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Live-streaming platform BoxCast raises $20M

TechCrunch

And it’s no surprise that 2020 has been a “watershed moment” for the company, as Daily put it, with the company now live streaming millions of events per year — everything from sports to religious services to virtual safaris offered by Sri Lanka’s tourism board. BoxCast dashboard.

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What Leaders Need to Know About Spatial Computing

Harvard Business Review

Spatial computing is an evolving form of computing that blends our physical world and virtual experiences using a wide range of technologies, thus enabling humans to interact and communicate in new ways with each other and with machines, as well as giving machines the capabilities to navigate and understand our physical environment in new ways.

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