A Small Surprise Inside My WordPress Stats ✨

I published a post yesterday and closed my WordPress. But today I noticed something I haven’t seen in a long time. Achievements! Many years ago I remeber there was trophies/badges in WordPress and then they disapered. Do you remember? Now today – two new achievements! And honestly… WOW. I had to pause for a second … More A Small Surprise Inside My WordPress Stats ✨

Dick Glover Named Blitz Executive Chairman

Sports media executive Dick Glover, who helped launch Sportico in 2020, was recently named the executive chairman of AI-powered B2B sports data products provider Blitz Analytics. Blitz AI agents query NBA, MLB and NFL data in real-time to answer user questions, generate insights in-game or produce recaps after the fact. Founders Devon Sinha and Tejas […]

Can The Jumper Be Hacked? Inside Basketball’s Next Arms Race

In the summer of 2024, during the WNBA’s Olympic break, several Atlanta Dream players who weren’t competing in Paris had gathered for a midseason training camp of sorts. Anyone watching would have seen what looked like a typical 3-on-3 scrimmage. In reality, it was anything but. The Dream weren’t playing in any ordinary gym, but rather in what might be the world’s most advanced basketball…

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The NBA Embraces Its Chaos Era

The NBA is historically the most predictable of the four major U.S. sports leagues. In contrast to baseball’s and hockey’s inherent randomness and football’s single-game playoff format, the favored team typically prevailed in a seven-game basketball series. Recently, though, the NBA playoffs have looked more like the NHL playoffs. In this year’s first round, the […]

Tennis Line-Calling Tech Grows From Pro Play to Local Courts

Stockholm-based tennis tracking startup PlayReplay has raised $12 million as it expands electronic line-calling, now a fixture at elite events, to lower-level play. PlayReplay has been used in 350,000 sessions, covering matches ranging from 12-year-olds’ tournaments to college and professional events. Four small cameras attached to the net track the ball in real time, offering […]

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Bitmovin and Layercake integration drives end-to-end media orchestration

The combined solution supports OTT streaming, live sports, simulcast workflows and enterprise video, aiming to deliver a flexible and scalable foundation for modern media operations

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Big Tech Oversees Itself at Homeland Security

Kristi Noem, just fired from her job as secretary of DHS amid allegations of self-dealing, staffed the department’s AI division with leadership taken directly from a tech company under contract with DHS to develop its biometric surveillance system.


The Department of Homeland Security is building a massive AI-driven biometric surveillance apparatus, headed by a former employee of major…

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