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 […]
NEW YORK — For more than a month during the snowless summer and fall, the U.S. ski and snowboard jumpers were still out on the slopes of the Utah Olympic Park practicing their jumps all thanks to the recent installation of a ramp lined with an innovative artificial snow and giant downward sloping air bag. […]
NEW YORK — In Olympic years, the training never seems to cease, making a heart-rate monitor a constant companion for women’s hockey star Hilary Knight. “I almost feel like it’s glued to my body, essentially, at this point with all the training on and off ice,” she said. Knight, 28, a two-time Olympic silver medalist […]
NEW YORK — As Americans skate, ski and speed their way to the medal stand in February’s Winter Games in South Korea, viewers at home will have access to a streamlined shopping experience to purchase the same Team USA gear the Olympians are wearing on the screen in front of them. Thanks to a multi-faceted […]
The two sports might only seem loosely connected: race cars thundering around an asphalt track and sleds speeding down the winding arm of an ice track. But at The Dow Chemical Company, engineers are borrowing from techniques they’ve longed used for NASCAR to make the USA Luge Team quicker at the PyeongChang Winter Olympics. A partner […]
