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Polychain puts its money on HotStreak to streamline sports betting using blockchain

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In the world of sports betting, instant payments and reliable custody are key to the user experience. HotStreak , a web3 platform for daily fantasy sports (DFS) contests, is wagering that the decentralized nature of the blockchain makes it an ideal solution for DFS platforms. It doubled in size in 2021 with over $52.7

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Event marketing is a ‘team sport,’ and Vendelux is coaching companies to find the best ROI

TechCrunch

Two former Shutterstock execs, Alex Reynolds and Stefan Deeran, were working together monetizing APIs and computer vision, and having attended some of those bad events, thought there could be a better way to make decisions on what events should be at the top of the list and which company team members should go to maximize return on investment. “We

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Computer vision transforms tennis coaching at Billie Jean King Cup

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With centuries of tradition behind it, tennis as a sport has been highly resistant to change. It’s fair to say that tennis has lived up to its roots as a traditional sport,” says Mat Pemble, executive director of IT for the International Tennis Federation (ITF), the sport’s governing body.

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Static vs Dynamic Code Analysis: How to Choose Between Them

OverOps

Let’s start with a sporting analogy to help illustrate the difference between these two methodologies. These include common developer errors which are often found by “Code Peer Reviews”. In which stage of the SDLC (Software Development Lifecycle) can we use Static code analysis? There are minimal surprises.

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CIOs grapple with the ethics of implementing AI

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Making ethical AI a team sport Plexus Worldwide is one organization using AI to identify fraudulent account creation and transactions, says Alan McIntosh, CIO and CTO of the $500 million global health and wellness company. We continue to iterate and evolve our policy, but it is still in development.

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Nice Teams Don’t Win in Sports or Business

Women on Business

Robyn Odegaard, CEO of Champion Performance Development , founder of the Stop The Drama! The Ultimate Guide to Female Teams. However, decisions are not being made, communication is stifled, and every so often, a major blow-up finds team members screaming at each other in the middle of practice. Conflict has a bad reputation.

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Leadership playbook: Michelle McKenna’s winning formula for CIOs

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On a recent episode of the Tech Whisperers podcast , we unpacked some of the unique moments from her career, the challenges and lessons learned, and why she believes CIOs need to focus on developing the human side of technology to accomplish big, bold things. A good example is my experience at Disney. 2: ‘Know Your Team.’