Ticketing sales and commerce platform ReplyBuy has been providing their subscribers the opportunity to receive text messages when tickets become available for their selected team (by literally replying with “buy”). Typically, the user that would reply to the text the fastest would get the ticket. Now, they’ve upgraded their technology so that people are able to send […]
The Sacramento Kings are known as one of the more forward-thinking NBA franchises, having been the first team in all of professional sports to offer bitcoin payment in early 2014. They also became the first organization to stream a game via Google Glass. Now, they are stretching the technology envelope even further as the team […]
Through new, innovative uses of artificial intelligence, Baidu has created a personal assistant which produced machine generated, real-time commentaries for the recently finished Olympic basketball games in Rio. The assistant is named Duer and it can give live commentaries in natural languages alongside GIF’s and specific user comments. The personal assistant which was launched in September […]
It has been well documented that technology has played a major role in the Olympics this year in Rio. Athletes are using technology to train smarter, wearing specialized equipment to compete stronger and are recovering faster and more effectively all due to advances in technology and new innovations. Barbara Kendall has seen this transformation in a way in which few […]
Horse racing is on the brink of being a sport to benefit massively from technology and sports science. As so often is discovered, technology is only as good as the benefit it provides to the end user. It’s no good having a telescope if you don’t know where the stars are. But how do you […]
