The 2023 Ryder Cup is being held through Oct. 1 at the Marco Simone Golf and Country Club in Rome, and the event is expected to take in 250,000 spectators — most of whom will be looking to text, tweet, Instagram and Facebook.

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HPE infrastructure powers the most intelligently connected and sustainable Ryder Cup yet

Major League Baseball kicked off a Virtual Ballpark experience for a Sept. 20 game between the Angels and Rays that uses startling 3D graphics to depict baseball games in real time.

Built in partnership with British metaverse company Improbable, it’s not without its early bugs, since the Virtual Ballpark UI was a little choppy. But like anything new, the experience should get better over time.

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MLB looks for a hit with its Virtual Ballpark metaverse experiment

The end of summer is here, which means for those of us in the communications space, it’s time for Gartner to release its updated Magic Quadrant for Contact Center as a Service.

Unlike in years past, where the year-over-year difference was negligible, 2022 to 2023 saw significant changes and surprises. Below are the notable points from the 2023 CCaaS Magic Quadrant.

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Big Changes in Gartner’s 2023 Magic Quadrant for Contact Center as a Service

Earlier this month, security vendor Fortinet held a security summit that preceded the Fortinet Championship PGA golf tournament in Napa Valley. The event was much more intimate than its annual Accelerate user conference, with the audience comprised of strategic channel partners and top-tier customers.

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5 Takeaways from the Fortinet Security Summit

Japanese telecom giant NTT Docomo broke new ground this week at MWC Las Vegas by deploying the first 5G network to use graphics processing unit-accelerated wireless technology in a commercial setting.

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NTT DOCOMO and Nvidia partner to launch the first AI-powered 5G network