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Bat Sensor Use Expanded To All Minor League Levels In 2018

Major League Baseball has approved the in-game use of bat sensors throughout its minor leagues for the 2018 season. In 2017, MLB conducted a pilot program that permitted bat sensors to be attached during rookie ball games in the Gulf Coast League and the Arizona Summer League. That has now been expanded for sensors to […]

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Super Intelligent Soccer Chatbot Targets Traditional TV Analysts

The masterminds behind a new artificially-intelligent soccer chatbot that will provide game updates and detailed player statistics for the 2018 FIFA World Cup in Russia say their technology may one-day replace traditional TV commentators. In what Beijing-based artificial intelligence company Cubee Technology is calling the world’s first AI-driven football [soccer] chatbot, the product, named AIBALL, […]

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Prevent Biometrics’ Intelligent Mouthguard Quantifies Head Impacts

Vincent Miele was an amateur boxer as a teenager, who later became a ringside physician as a medical resident while training to be a neurosurgeon at West Virginia University. Along with the renowned Dr. Julian Bailes, the two conducted a video analysis comparing a control group of typical professional boxing matches with a set of […]

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Clear Expands Streamlined Security Checks To Three Additional MLB Parks

Clear, the privatized gate security company that competes with TSA Pre, is expanding its footprint to three new Major League Baseball parks for the 2018 season and working with lawmakers in Washington State to digitize IDs for potential contactless in-stadium alcohol ordering. The Clear platform, which requires a one-time sign-up and then uses biometrics to […]

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