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PlaySight trained AI on thousands of hours of videos to understand sports

Sports analytics, which refers to the use of data and statistics to measure the performance of players (or teams) and make informed coaching decisions, is an enormous market. Grand View Research pegs its worth at $4.6 billion by 2025, expanding at a compound annual growth rate of 31.2% from 2019. Perhaps unsurprisingly, startups are pursuing it with gusto, and one of the pack leaders is PlaySight.
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Pandora now lets you stream music on the Apple Watch without iPhone

Pandora is out with an update that brings a highly requested feature, streaming support for Apple Watch. This offers more flexibility to listen to your favorite music even if it’s not downloaded to your watch when away from your iPhone. Pandora launched it’s Apple Watch app just over a year ago with support for offline listening but streaming directly from the wearable was absent until now…
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Microsoft’s AI improves text summarization performance by paying closer attention to the beginning

A newsy feature from the New York Times is bound to have a different tone than the average Reddit post. Indeed, the diversity of writing styles and grammatical structures makes the task of automatic text summarization highly challenging. That’s why researchers from Pittsburgh and Microsoft Researcher’s Future Social Experiences (FUSE) lab, which focuses on real-time and media-rich experiences…
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Galaxy Buds+ with Spotify is good, but it could be great

Samsung hosted the Galaxy Unpacked event at the Palace of Fine Arts in San Francisco on Tuesday and debuted Galaxy Buds+, its latest wireless earbuds to compete with Apple’s AirPods. The new wireless earbuds come with a subwoofer for bass and nearly double the battery time…
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How AI is stopping the next great flu before it starts

Immune systems across the globe have been working overtime this winter as a devastating flu season has taken hold. More than 180,000 Americans have been hospitalized and 10,000 more have died in recent months, according to the CDC, while the coronavirus (now officially…
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Samsung Galaxy Z Flip stock quickly depleting in the US

Interest for Samsung’s second foldable phone – the Galaxy Z Flip is unsurprisingly high. So much so that both the unlocked and AT&T versions of the device managed to sell out as soon as it was available online. Potential customers are now left with a choice between the Sprint units or having to wait until the next batch arrives. And if the demand stays this high only one of those…
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