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Firstbeat’s Player Status Analysis Platform Monitors Long-Term Trends

One of elite sport’s most prolific technologies hails from the Finnish Lakeland and a pair of research studies into the autonomic nervous system and mathematical modeling of heart-rate variability at the University of Jyväskylä and that city’s Research Institute for Olympic Sports. That work led to the creation of Firstbeat in 2002 and now, a […]

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Arccos Caddie Permitted By USGA Under Rules Of Golf

Last January, Arccos Golf announced plans to collaborate with Microsoft. In the year since, that partnership produced an artificial intelligence platform called Arccos Caddie. The data-rich golf aid, meant to take the guesswork out of the game, is now approved by the USGA for use under the rules of golf under certain conditions. The Arccos 360 […]

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Cricket Australia Partners With Catapult For Live Wearable Data Broadcasts

Catapult is continuing to bring its wearable data to live sports broadcasts with the tech company’s latest partnership with Cricket Australia on a nine-match agreement. The statistics gleaned from Catapult’s GPS devices will be presented in the sponsored Gatorade Tracker during Channel Nine coverage that began with the recently completed fifth test of the Ashes […]

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Xampion Creates Soccer Boot Sensors To Measure Player Performance

Over 160 years ago, shoes, and by extension, sportswear was revolutionized. A shoemaker, Lyman R.Blake became the first to invent a machine for sewing the soles of shoes to the uppers. However, a Finnish company wants to merge the trusty sole with technology to bring soccer analytics into the 21st century. Xampion has created removable […]

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Intel AI Will Provide New Insights To Ferrari’s North America Series

Intel is partnering with Ferrari to reshape the fan viewing experience and the analytic tools available to drivers in the Italian car company’s six-race circuit on the North American continent. The basis for this enhancement is through Intel’s artificial intelligence products operated on the Xeon Scalable platform and the Neon Framework. The AI permits real-time […]

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