NEW YORK — For the golf course of the future to be smart, it’s going to enable golfers to instantaneously use video replay to break down their swings. That’s what sports technology company PlaySight sees, and investor Greg Norman can envision it, too. “You can do it on your phone nowadays, so making it even […]
Another human has lost to the descendants of Deep Blue. First, world champion Garry Kasparov lost to IBM’s Deep Blue supercomputer in chess in 1997. Then Jeopardy’s all-time consecutive show winner Ken Jennings succumbed to IBM’s Watson computer system in 2010. Recently, Go’s “best player” Ke Jie was soundly defeated by a computer system called […]
After repeated criticisms from groups such as Amnesty International and the Human Rights Watch, Qatar has introduced legislation to overhaul its widely criticized migrant worker employment system (known as kafala) and improve safety conditions on sites such as the venues under construction for the 2022 World Cup. Such pledged reforms have indicated sufficient progress that […]
Many tennis players use a tennis dampener, a cheap piece of silicone that reduces the vibration of the strings and makes a smoother sound on contact with the ball. The dampener created by Courtmatics does a lot more. By placing a microcomputer complete with inertial sensors, internal memory and Bluetooth inside a typical dampener, the […]
Serie A soccer team AS Roma has become the first football club to launch an official account on the storytelling social media platform Steller. The social service, created in 2014, seeks to help its users to create and tell a visual story through a combination of text and pictures. The club has created more than […]
