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Hiro Capital puts $2.3M into team sports tracking platform PlayerData — as does Sir Terry Leahy

TechCrunch

Hiro Capital has gradually been making a name for itself as an investor in the area know as “Digital Sports” or DSports for short. based PlayerData uses wearable technology and software tracking to give grass-roots and professional sports teams feedback on their training. It’s now led a $2.3 Edinburgh, U.K.-based

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

TechCrunch

The big news at this year’s show is a number of partnerships with brands across the sports spectrum, including: Adidas Running, Trailforks (cycling/hiking), Wearable X (yoga), Slopes (skiing) and 18Birdies (golf). Wearable innovation in existing form factors is starting to reach its limits.

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7 ways CIOs can build a high-performance team

CIO

Many CIOs know that a high-performance team is usually greater than the sum of its parts, comprised of talent with highly complementary skills, a broader set of objectives than other teams, and fine-tuned approaches to collaboration and communication. That’s when a high-performance team takes shape.

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

CIO

GenAI has been estimated to increase skilled worker performance by up to 40% with the potential to add trillions of dollars in value to the global economy. Who better to train the workforce of the future than practitioners fluent in GenAI—both in how to build it and how to use it? And for good reason. It’s a magic lightbulb moment.

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Will AI Replace the Front Office in Pro Sports?

Harvard Business Review

With accurate player-availability predictions for all active players, AI-powered decision-making is dramatically improved around three dimensions: 1) Risk management: If a productive wide-receiver is likely to get hurt, for example, a team might invest more in talented backups, to minimize drop-off in team performance during injury.

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The use cases for a private wireless networks are many and increasing

CIO

Adam Leventhal, Managing Partner, 5G and mobile edge computing innovation at Verizon Business, points out that adoption of private 5G networks is increasing rapidly in industries where the performance of legacy wired, Wi-Fi and public cellular networks can fall short.

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Computer vision transforms tennis coaching at Billie Jean King Cup

CIO

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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