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Obé Fitness raises $15M for its personality-driven exercise platform

TechCrunch

For the record, it’s not a reference to the Butler County, Ohio-based amusement park that serves as the home of the “world’s largest train display,” but rather one of those industry portmanteaus like infotainment or webinar. along with previous investors Cassius Ventures, Ludlow Ventures, Harris Blitzer Sports Entertainment and BDMI.

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With generative AI, IT must deliver knowledge…not just technology

CIO

The case for GenAI education as part of IT’s remit At first blush, training and educating users on how to use generative AI may seem outside the typical scope of IT, but GenAI is not a typical tech transformation. For these reasons, IT cannot discount this transformation as a rank-and-file change management exercise.

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

TechCrunch

Now a new startup — in beta since 2021 — hopes to become that platform where elite athletes can train mere mortals such as myself. is an app that lets users train with some of the world’s most famous athletes and learn the tricks of their trade via four-week guided, on-demand training programs.

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Metaverse: The time for CIOs to experiment is now

CIO

To help CIOs figure out what they should be doing with the metaverse, I queried a select group of CXOs at large enterprises about their metaverse plans and immersed myself for several weeks digesting and synthesizing as much information as possible on the topic, including a series of exercises I posed on various social media platforms.

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

TechCrunch

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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Motosumo scores $6M to spin up a challenge to Peloton

TechCrunch

The 2015-founded fit-tech startup has developed a system for measuring cycling cadence without additional sensors — users need only affix their existing smartphone or tablet to a stationary exercise bike to get real-time feedback on their performance. Motosumo algorithms are proprietary and trained by a machine learning loop.

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SRE as a team sport

O'Reilly Media - Ideas

Traditionally, operators weren't directly trained to understand user needs, as developers and their project managers are. People have to simultaneously feel that their managers and peers support them, and that they have "agency"—the chance to exercise their skills. Continue reading SRE as a team sport.

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