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Niantic tries its hand at sports with NBA All-World

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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. Why’d the studio choose this sport for its next AR venture?

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Amazon brings new AI-driven features to Thursday Night Football

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During a demo with Prime Video executives, TechCrunch learned about the AI elements coming to TNF this season, as well as the first Black Friday NFL game and when viewers can expect HDR video quality. And after winning its first Sports Emmy award in May, it’s safe to say the tech behemoth isn’t easing up on the gas.

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NEX raises $25M, launches Active Arcade to get people moving

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It also previously raised a $4 million seed round from Charmides Capital, Harris Blitzer Sports & Entertainment Ventures and Mandra Capital, Steve Nash, Jeremy Lin and Mark Cuban in 2018. Many other leaders in sports, media and technology have also baked NEX. This latest round comes after NEX raised an $8.5

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Read’s AI-powered summary feature squeezes a meeting into a two-minute clip

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Shim compared watching the two-minute reel to watching the highlights of a sports game. The demo below shows that, at times, the highlights cut off the speaker mid-sentence, which can be annoying when trying to listen to important points. The video highlight feature is an evolution of that.

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Ryu Games raises $2.3M, betting that cash tournaments for mobile games are the future

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To see the accelerator take part in the funding round is not a surprise, as TechCrunch first caught wind of Ryu during its participation in the most recent 500 Startups demo day. Now mix in the sports-betting frenzy that we’ve seen in the United States, and you have a potentially potent cocktail. Fair enough.

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Paris-based accelerator The Family sues co-founder Oussama Ammar

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Back in 2011, Ammar used to work for a company called Be Sport. At the time, Be Sport claimed that Ammar had been using some of the company’s funds for non-corporate expenses. They teamed up to build a different kind of startup accelerator without any batch or demo day.

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EquityZen’s Phil Haslett on how startup valuations can regain their moxie

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It’s the first of Y Combinator’s two-day Demo Day event, which means that TechCrunch will spend most of our working hours watching startup demos and tracking how many companies from the batch are in particular sectors and geographies. Restoring market confidence in tech companies. One size does not fit all.

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