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 partnership aims to put in-game data into sports fans’ hands using mixed reality. Zappar, a company which specializes in creating augmented reality (AR) products, has teamed up with Kindred Futures, an innovation-focused arm of the larger Kindred Group, which is is one of Europe’s largest online gambling operators. The deal sees both companies […]
It’s widely known how some Olympic sports work, like hockey or figure skating. Other events, though, feature athletic feats that seem impossible to the spectator’s eye. When the Olympics open in Pyeongchang next week, Olympic timekeeper Omega will be there to quantify — and perhaps demystify — those sports, like ski jumping, whose practitioners can appear […]
A leading data scientist at artificial intelligence computing company NVIDIA foresees a future of sports scouting and recruiting that is not only more objective but also more remote. Joshua Patterson, NVIDIA’s director of applied solutions engineering, told SportTechie that the deep learning and full-motion video analytics enabled by graphics processing units (GPUs) could overhaul the […]
