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Sports venues advance goals, enhance fan experience with data analytics

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Sports fans today have more ways than ever to watch their favorite teams beyond the traditional, live stadium experience, including television, streaming services, even highlights on social media. In response, sports teams and venue operators are working hard to improve and differentiate the in-stadium experience.

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Niantic tries its hand at sports with NBA All-World

TechCrunch

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

TechCrunch

Now, meeting intelligence tool Read has introduced a new feature that trims an hour-long meeting into a two-minute clip, accompanied by important pointers. The company says it is using large language models — it didn’t specify which one — combined with video analysis to pick out the most notable parts of the meeting.

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How sport made CIO 100 winner Joanna Drake a better technology leader

CIO

CIO 100 winner, sports leadership and being ‘too friendly’ Having featured in the CIO 100 in 2021 and 2020 prior to topping this year’s list , Drake says the award is for her team, not just her. “If If this was about me, as an individual, I’d struggle to do a [CIO 100] submission,” she said.

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Smart contact lens startup Mojo Vision partners with Adidas and other sports brands

TechCrunch

For reasons having to do with the pandemic, we won’t be meeting with the California firm this year, though it is offering up some more insight into what a future of smart contacts could look like. Every year, the picture seems a little closer, if still far away.

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Fantasy fantasy sport Blaseball developers score $3M seed funding to go mobile

TechCrunch

Likewise, games — told through simple text summaries of the action like you might see in the corner of a sports site — involve hits, balls, and stealing, but also incineration, shaming, and secret bases. Indian fantasy sports app Dream11’s parent firm raises $225M at over $2.5B WTF is daily fantasy sports?

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FutureIT Toronto – Where IDC Analysts and Canadian Tech Leaders Meet

CIO

Attendees get a chance to meet each other on a more personal level during the guided networking session involving a variety of interactive elements to facilitate immediate connections. The networking event allows you to meet other attendees and ask questions to some of our featured speakers. Al Koura, CISO at Ruby Life Ltd.

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