ANALYSIS: Stats might be everything in basketball — but for Pacers Sports and Entertainment (PS&E), data about fans is just as valuable. Yet while the parent company of the Indianapolis Pacers (NBA), the Indiana Fever (WNBA) and the Indiana Mad Ants (NBA G League) was pumping untold amounts of it into a $100,000-a-year machine learning (ML) […] [...]
Meta is laying off more employees. Of the hundreds of cuts made on Wednesday, the Reality Labs division is one of the prime recipients. The layoffs come a day after news broke that Meta executives (sans Mark Zuckerberg) could be set for windfalls of up to $2.7 billion each under new pay packages.Today's cuts of “hundreds” fall well short of its reported 20 percent workforce reduction plan [...]