The Australian Sports Anti-Doping Authority (ASADA) recently inked a tech deal that enables it to bypass locks on smartphones to essentially hack athletes it suspects of doping. The organization, which tests athletes for illegal substance use and investigates those it believes are attempting to use drugs to enhance performance, struck a 12-month deal with Cellebrite valued […]
FIFA will permit in-game player tracking analysis and communication for the first time during this summer’s World Cup. A pair of optical tracking cameras will log positional data for every player and the ball. That data and the video will be accessible to every team via small handheld technologies. FIFA is allotting one tablet to […]
Sports fans with iPhones have long been scanning their tickets at the turnstile with Apple Wallet’s Passbook feature. Now Android users will be able to do the same. Google Pay, the Android maker’s version of the same mobile wallet feature, will accept event tickets and airline boarding passes. Google has reportedly already formed a partnership […]
Minor League Baseball (MiLB) has extended its official partnership with technology and payment service provider FIS Global through 2022. The deal will impact both fan experience and backend operations. The league will look to implement FIS’s payment and fan engagement technologies as the preferred payment and loyalty technology provider across MiLB’s 200-plus member teams. In […]
The criticality discipline of nuclear engineering is a lot like scouting, sort of. In one, you need to project the state of radioactive materials and predict what might happen in all possible scenarios. In the other, you need to forecast the current skills and abilities of young athletes and find the future Hall of Famers. […]
