Whether you’re running a marathon, embarking on a cross-country ski run, or biking the Tour de France, you need to know how much your body can handle. Next time you take up any of those athletic challenges, just slip a sensor over your thigh and you’ll find out exactly how much intensity you can give. […]
Strava, the fitness platform and community that tracks user workouts through GPS technology, has announced that it’s working with government officials to review its privacy policies and address potentially sensitive data exposed in its activity heat maps. In a statement from Strava CEO James Quarles, who was a vice president at Instagram until he was […]
A new fitness app that seeks to reward users with goods and services for the amount of exercise they do has raised $5.7 million in seed funding with participation from Seedcamp, Goodwater Capital, Greylock Partners and Twitch founder Justin Kan. Sweatcoin, an app developed by Sweatco Ltd., lets users earn 0.95 “sweatcoins,” a new digital […]
In what’s claimed to be a first in soccer, sensors in a match ball as well as the jerseys of both teams were used to collect real-time data in-game to support a live broadcast. The match last October was a local derby in Germany’s fourth-tier Regionalliga, between the reserve team of FC Bayern Munich and the […]
MELVILLE, N.Y. — In a mid-sized office building in the suburbs of Long Island, a company called LBi Software, with its sports-focused division LBi Dynasty, has been stealthily building scouting software for Major League Baseball since the late 1990s. Now, after moving to a shiny new office in November meant to accommodate a growing team […]
