How Technology Is Reshaping Professional Tennis
The US Open removed line judges from every court in 2022. The Australian Open had done the same a year earlier. Wimbledon, the last holdout, announced in October 2023 that...
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Covers AI applications in sports, computing, and regulation, including edge computing at the Ryder Cup and AI's role during the pandemic.
Supercomputing shifts to AI amid exascale race
A supercomputer is a machine engineered to deliver the highest possible floating-point throughput, measured in FLOPS. The TOP500 project has ranked installations by their LINPACK benchmark score since 1993, and...
Scale AI Wins $249M Pentagon Contract for AI Data Labeling
In August 2020, the U.S. Department of Defense's Joint Artificial Intelligence Center awarded Scale AI a blanket purchase agreement for data labeling and AI infrastructure work. The five-year BPA carried...
AI speeds MND drug discovery with algorithm-led analysis
In 2021, Verge Genomics, a US-based AI drug discovery company, advanced an ALS candidate into Phase 1 trials. The compound, VRG50635, was not found through conventional screening. It surfaced via...
Bing AI launch challenges Google
On February 7, 2023, Microsoft unveiled a new Bing search engine driven by a next-generation OpenAI large language model, calling it an AI copilot for the web. The launch flowed...
Kinect Hub blockchain healthcare platform ends
Kinect Hub was a proposed digital health platform designed to marry Microsoft's Kinect motion-tracking device with blockchain technology. The concept hinged on the Kinect's ability to capture body movements in...
Amazon Alexa AI Pivot After $25B Loss
Amazon has not abandoned Alexa. It has radically restructured the organization behind it, cutting thousands of jobs, replacing longtime hardware chief Dave Limp with Panos Panay, and pivoting the product's...
Google Cloud Contact Center AI: Competitors
Google Cloud launched its Contact Center AI Platform in July 2021. The product injects AI services into a live contact center rather than replacing the underlying stack. As of early...
Experts predicted 2020 cyber threats, remote work surge
Entering 2020, cybersecurity experts expected ransomware to remain the dominant threat, cloud misconfigurations to widen the attack surface, and the November election to face state-sponsored interference. What they did not...
Jumio verifies IDs with AI selfie matching
Jumio, headquartered in Sunnyvale, California and founded in 2010, uses artificial intelligence to compare a live selfie against the photo on an identity document in seconds. The system is designed...
FDNA’s Face2Gene AI aids rare disease diagnosis from photos
Face2Gene, a platform developed by FDNA, applies deep learning to facial photographs to help clinicians identify rare genetic disorders. The tool does not make a final diagnosis. It ranks possible...
Intel True View: 3D NFL Replays from a Player's Perspective
Intel and the NFL built a system that could replay a play from the exact visual perspective of a quarterback or receiver, using arrays of 5K cameras mounted in stadiums....
