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Sharify makes it super simple to rediscover your city’s social side

TechCrunch

The pandemic has upended many aspects of urban life but perhaps the most visible upheaval is to citydwellers’ social lives, with curfews calling time on traditional night life across much of the Western world and social distancing putting a chilly spin on opportunities for getting together with people outside your usual circle.

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Skich’s new app brings social discovery to mobile game recommendations

TechCrunch

Users aren’t promised in-game rewards, virtual currency or anything else. Upon first launch, users simply tap on the categories of games they most enjoy — like board, adventure, card, casino, educational, strategy, word, racing, sports, casual, puzzle, and others. It’s just a recommendation. Image Credits: Skich.

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Higher-ed CIOs embrace academia’s AI challenges

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Broadly speaking, it’s needed by researchers, in fields from medical studies to social sciences, and is a vital tool to keep universities running efficiently, assist professors with courses, predict academic failure in time to make changes, and give students the help they need with administration.

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Masters, an app for training with celeb athletes, closes a $2.7M seed funding round

TechCrunch

We are all familiar with the success of platforms like Peloton (IPO’d), but there are of course new upstarts such as FiiT (raised £9 million) or Fitplan (raised $9.9 Plus there is Moxie , where coaches create their own courses. Each course is presented in high-quality video. Masters app. Image Credits: Masters.

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FutureIT Toronto – Where IDC Analysts and Canadian Tech Leaders Meet

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All mainstage sessions will be professionally recorded and re-broadcast on Thursday May 11 th at the FutureIT | Canada virtual event for those who are unable to attend in person. The event concludes with a fun and social networking reception where attendees can make those final connections and strengthen their professional network even more.

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How Infosys and Tennis Australia are harnessing technology for good

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Tennis Australia was one of the first signatories of the UN Sports for Climate Change Action Framework globally five years ago. Given the Australian Open’s size, it’s inevitably become a platform for messaging too – political, environmental and social, Tiley said. Such scale means improving sustainability for TA is a daunting task.

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Social Media Responsibility | N2Growth Blog

N2Growth Blog

In today’s post I’m going to explore responsibility as it relates to social media – the responsibility that comes with living in the real world vs. a perpetual state of virtual reality. As most of you know, I’m a big fan of social media.

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