NEW YORK — In hearing Amazon executives discuss the kickoff of its Thursday Night Football streaming package next week, a few insights emerged about how the tech giant envisions its NFL coverage and what customers should expect starting with the first game on Sept. 28: The game broadcast itself won’t be materially different but may […]
Major League Baseball’s revolutionary Statcast technology has earned a Technology & Engineering Emmy Award for its collection and broadcast of advanced tracking statistics. The Emmy will be jointly presented to all three members of the Statcast triumvirate: TrackMan, which provides its Doppler radars; ChyronHego, which offers both an optical-tracking system (called TRACAB) and broadcast visualization tools; […]
James Madison University and North Carolina State University are the two latest schools to form partnerships with Kinduct, a leading data and analytics software provider, that will help the medical staffs, coaching staffs and athletes with additional information. JMU and NC State join schools like Louisville in this partnership, with the Cardinals and Kinduct joining […]
Hawk-Eye Innovations has produced remarkable technology for assisting with line calls in tennis, and in November at the Next Gen ATP Finals, the company will debut yet another version of its product that will make line calls almost completely automated. The Association of Tennis Professionals announced Monday that the upcoming Next Gen ATP Finals, a […]
Kevin Durant, the Golden State Warriors star and NBA Finals MVP, said he began investing in tech companies while playing in Oklahoma City before adding, “But if you come out here, it’s obvious that you’ll be just entrenched in this community.” The soon-to-be 29-year-old has pocketed about $132 million in career NBA salary, not to […]
