Thuuz Sports lands Kayo OTT production deal

Foxtel’s sports streaming platform to utilise new AI-driven highlights capability.

US media production company Thuuz Sports has partnered with Kayo Sports, the Australian sports streaming service owned by pay-TV operator Foxtel, to integrate automated highlights into the over-the-top (OTT) platform.

The artificial intelligence (AI) driven technology, records metadata to measure fan engagement and sentiment around individual sporting events to tailor highlights packages for the use of rights owners and media partners.

Thuuz’s partnership with Kayo marks the California-based company’s first venture into Australia, and also adds cricket and rugby to its production portfolio, which has previously consisted primarily of American sport.

“They [Kayo] needed something quite specific and we’re able to service that,” Wayne Sieve, the executive vice-president of Thuuz, told Sportcal.

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I’m a successful CEO and mother of 6. Here’s how parenting made me a better leader

I cofounded a (now) successful and publicly traded software company. But it wasn’t always that way.

The early days were a slog that lasted far longer than any of us expected. As the company hit its stride, I had children (five of them at that time) and took time off when they were young.

During that time, as most entrepreneurs do, I was building a following for the company on Twitter, launching our product as one of the first 50 in Google’s App Marketplace, and working with customers. I did whatever was needed, whenever I could find the time. Any task, big or small, was accomplished during the kids’ nap time, after bedtime, or sandwiched somewhere in between.

But my official full-time job was the physical and emotional development of tiny but rapidly growing humans.

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WhiteFox releases white paper to show path to integrate UAS into national airspace

In response to events both domestic and abroad, WhiteFox has developed and released a new white paper entitled ‘Enabling the Good While Preventing the Bad: How Security Enables the Drone Industry.’

SAN LUIS OBISPO, Calif., - In response to events both domestic and abroad, WhiteFox has developed and released a new white paper entitled ‘Enabling the Good While Preventing the Bad: How Security Enables the Drone Industry.’ In the white paper, which highlights “the need to protect against potential public safety and homeland security threats posed by UAS,” WhiteFox outlines what it calls “critical recommendations for a comprehensive counter-UAS legislative framework,” reports AUVSI.org.

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Lucid Sight Joins Hands with CBS Interactive to Bring Star Trek on Blockchain Platform

The famous Star Trek spaceship will now be available in the form of digital collectibles in the CSC game which can be traded in-game or even to third-party marketplaces.

The blockchain-based gaming industry is all set to get a major boost! Lucid Sight, the blockchain games developer has recently joined hands with media company CBS Interactive to bring the very famous “Star Trek” gameplay on the blockchain platform.

As part of this deal, the two companies will work towards introducing the iconic starship from Star Trek to the digital universe via an open-universe game dubbed Crypto Space Commander (CSC). Thus, the CSC players will be able to command starships which can mine, harvest, and craft items.

Lucid Sight notes that the CSC game will thus be able to provide “provable, transferable, transparent and delegated control” for all its in-game digital collectibles.

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Insurtech Avinew Acquires Betterdrive in California

Insurtech company Avinew has acquired Sunnyvalye, Calif.-based Betterdrive.

Terms of the deal were not disclosed.

Ravindhran Sankar, CEO and founder, will be named director of research and development. Avinew will integrate Betterdrive’s technology into its own proprietary system for predictive risk calculations and related pricing discounts.

Betterdrive develops technology to predict the probability of accidents based on the route, time of day, traffic and weather conditions.

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