Earlier this season, The Weather Company teamed up with Chevrolet Racing to offer forecasting data that might help its teams get a competitive edge in races. The Weather Company, a subsidiary of IBM and the source of data for The Weather Channel, offers a network of 275,000 personal weather stations and millions of IoT devices […]
Minor League Baseball (MiLB) has extended its official partnership with technology and payment service provider FIS Global through 2022. The deal will impact both fan experience and backend operations. The league will look to implement FIS’s payment and fan engagement technologies as the preferred payment and loyalty technology provider across MiLB’s 200-plus member teams. In […]
If you’re a fan of either the Hillsboro Hops or the Hillsboro Lúpulos, you’re in luck. The Diamondbacks’ Class A affiliate is one of 33 minor league teams whose fans will have access to an AI assistant this season. Built by Satisfi Labs in partnership with MiLB, the bot is designed to be fluent in […]
In the Middle Ages, knights had young—human—squires as personal assistants. In the modern age, most of us commoners rely on digital assistants such as Siri. And now, fans of polo, aka “The Sport of Kings,” will get the help of artificial intelligence, too. Oracle announced today that Heineken Urban Polo, a series of polo tournaments […]
Biometric ticketing will soon be launching at Fenway Park for Boston Red Sox games. Fenway Sports Group is partnering with IdentoGO by Idemia, the company behind TSA Pre, to bring biometric ticketing to its teams. That will include the Red Sox and most likely the Premier League soccer club Liverpool FC, according to Charles Carroll, […]
