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Robots Are Going To Write The March Madness News You Read

Robots have always been synonymous with the future. From the Jetsons, to The Terminator, we have often thought of robots as the ultimate human creation. While robots aren’t wandering the streets yet, The Associated Press has revealed that it will work with the NCAA and Automated Insights to produce data-driven journalism created by robots. Over […]

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Method to the Madness: Using Technology to Enhance Your Big Dance Experience

Stanford is one of the Cinderella teams from this year’s tournament.  This post originally appeared on CE.org. Before the NCAA Tournament gets back underway today, let’s take this opportunity to look at some of the effects technology is having on both the sports we watch and how we watch them. While (hopefully) a good number of brackets are still giving fans hope, it only took until the second day of the tournament for all entries in Warren Buffet’s ‘Billion Dollar Bracket’ challenge to be eliminated. Mercer’s first round upset of Duke ruined all but .03 percent of the entries, according to CBSSports.com. While entrants in the challenge are probably wishing that technology could have helped them pick the perfect bracket to...

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Redesigned NCAA March Madness Live App Expands Platforms

Selection Sunday didn’t bring too many surprises. Southern Methodist University and University of Wisconsin – Green Bay have been left on the outside looking in. The two most dangerous four-seeded schools stand as Michigan State University and the University of Louisville. And the University of Florida reigns as the unquestioned top number one seed. Similarly, […]

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[INFOGRAPHIC] NCAA March Madness Live’s Second-Screen Success

Florida Gulf Coast’s #DunkCity and Wichita State’s Final Four appearance have surely taken the nation by storm these last few weeks. Both Cinderella runs benefited from the advances in technology, be it social media and mobile. George Mason’s historic trip in 2006 seems like a distant memory that one has to check YouTube for any remnants. I’m sure they wish their Big Dance story was talked about then through the sundry of outlets available at that time. In fact, Twitter’s Founder, Jack Dorsey, sent out his first tweet during March Madness seven years ago and now half of the 165 million users access the platform via mobile; and there’s about 3 billion more mobile phones by comparison today as noted...

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