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Irdeto Incorporates AI Into Anti-Piracy Software To Combat Illegal Streaming

Dutch cybersecurity company Irdeto has released an updated version of its Piracy Control software solution that could help digital steaming companies protect their product. Online piracy remains a major problem: an estimated three million people illegally watched the Floyd Mayweather-Conor McGregor fight last August, and a BBC survey found that 36 percent of Premier League […]

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Why College Tennis Is Expanding Pilot Of PlaySight Challenge System

When the Intercollegiate Tennis Association serves up its first national tournament of the 2018 season this weekend, a couple of the host schools will take part in a technology initiative implemented to make the game a bit fairer. That technology? PlaySight’s PlayFair system, a video replay assistant that provides players and referees with the ability […]

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Should Professional Athletes Vlog?

Andrew Collins is the CEO & founder of Mailman Group, a multi award winning sports digital and investment company based in China. Mailman powers many of the world’s most elite sports properties with their expansion to China, through media, digital and commercialization.  Video blogging, or vlogging, consists of a series of videos that follow an […]

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Stories That Bring Us Closer To The Game

Julia McInnis is the CEO and co-founder of Lancealot and can be reached at julia@lancealot.me. If you spend a few minutes on Reddit reading the fan commentary on the Washington Wizards’ Kelly Oubre Jr., you might be surprised to see that few fans are actually discussing his game stats. Instead, they’re talking about Supreme, the […]

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Inside Intel’s Plans To Capture The Olympics In Virtual Reality

NEW YORK — Over the next few weeks, roughly four dozen Intel employees will descend upon Pyeongchang, South Korea in a massive undertaking that will see the technology company transformed into a mobile production house with field crews, producers and virtual reality cameras. In what will be the largest-scale virtual reality event to date and […]

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