San Francisco Giants catcher Buster Posey is himself the subject of some good trivia: His real name is Gerald Dempsey Posey III; he once played all nine positions in the same game while at Florida State; and he is one of only three catchers, along with Yankees great Thurman Munson and Reds Hall of Famer […]
The San Francisco 49ers became the second NFL team to launch a multi-year partnership with the parent company of TSA Pre. Borrowing from the same technology that the Jets recently implemented to enhance the fan experience, the 49ers teamed up with IdentoGO by IDEMIA to launch a pilot program centered around fan biometrics. To kick […]
The calls to Kolkata kept coming. Steven Cadavid, the CEO of biomechanics analysis company KinaTrax, would reach out to his data-management partner, iMerit, last October to say that the ongoing project might last only one more week. Then there’d be another week extension. And another. “It’s funny, we didn’t even know, initially, that we were […]
With the world governing body of soccer, FIFA, intending to use video assistant referees at next year’s World Cup in Russia after the system was used at the Confederations Cup, it has made a call out to technology companies to assist with making this goal a reality. VARs are off-pitch match officials who can use video […]
Microsoft and the Green Bay Packers are collaborating on a partnership to create jobs and boost the local economy through a major investment in technology. The corporate giant and the four-time Super Bowl champions have each pledged $5 million over the next five years as seed money to launch Titletown Tech, a three-pronged effort of […]
