Exactly one year from today, the 2020 Olympic Games will begin in Tokyo, followed by the Paralympic Games a month later. While the competitors will still be human, technology will...
When Team USA travels to Tokyo next summer for the Olympics, athletes may be armed with new technologies meant to help them perform better against increasingly competitive international foes. With...
Bill Gates has teamed up with the Japan Sports Agency and the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games in an effort to boost global sustainability efforts. Gates announced the partnership at an...
The Tokyo 2020 Summer Games will feature facial recognition kiosks during both Olympic and Paralympic events to verify the identity of athletes, officials, media, and other staff. The system, the...
A facial-recognition app developed for a Japanese university student competition that can immediately access athlete profiles has caught the attention of Tokyo’s 2020 Olympic Committee. Eisuke Sugitani, 20 and a junior at Doshisha University in Kyoto, developed the idea that would allow users to direct their smartphones at the television and receive biographical information back. […]
