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Interesting details on Olympic Destroyer, the nation-state cyberattack against the 2018 Winter Olympic Games in South Korea. Wired’s Andy Greenberg presents evidence that the perpetrator was Russia, and not North Korea or China…. Continue reading Details of the Olympic Destroyer APT
Competitive swimmers certainly like to track their performance, often using devices such as swim watches – the problem is, the athletes have to stop to look at those things. A Vancouver-based startup is out to address that problem, with its a… Continue reading Augmented-reality swim goggles put performance data in your face
According to research conducted by Canadian materials engineering technologist Albert Beyer, about 68 percent of hockey, skiing and snowboarding-related concussions are caused by impacts to the back of the head – these may occur when hockey players fall back onto the ice, for instance. With that in mind, Beyer created The Goose Egg.
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If you’re a member of a rowing team, it’s not just your stroke that’s important, but also how well you coordinate that stroke with those of your team-mates. With that in mind, Idaho-based rowers Mike Schaefer and John Balint invented the conn… Continue reading Connected rowing machine makes users part of a team
Garmin has added to its extensive range of sports training aids with a new gadget to help get trapshooters aiming truly. The Xero S1 makes use of radar and computer vision to provide instant feedback every time a shot is fired, offering opportunities for slight and swift adjustments to take one’s game to the next level.
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The Spanish Soccer League’s smartphone app spies on fans in order to find bars that are illegally streaming its games. The app listens with the microphone for the broadcasts, and then uses geolocation to figure out where the phone is. The Spanish data protection agency has ordered the league to stop doing this. Not because it’s creepy spying, but because… Continue reading Spanish Soccer League App Spies on Fans
Riding up almost vertical inclines, hopping over rocky obstacles or just coming to a dead stop in the middle of a log are among the many thrills to be had from motorcycle trials riding. Traditionally accompanied by the clatter of noisy engine… Continue reading Electric Motion hits the dirt with 2020 electric trials bikes
There are already swim-tracking wearables such as watches, that track basic data such as the number of pool-lengths swum. Toronto-based TritonWear is taking things considerably further, however, with its just-announced Triton 2 – the device t… Continue reading Swim wearable uses AI to track and improve performance
[Ben] made an interesting discovery during the FIFA World Cup in 2018, and used it to grant himself the power to call goals before they happened. Well, before they happened on live TV or live streaming, anyway. It was possible because of the broadcast delay on “live” broadcasts, combined with the sports betting industry’s need for timely and detailed game state tracking.
He discovered that a company named Running Ball provides fairly detailed game statistics in digital form, which are generated from inside the stadium as events occur. An obvious consumer of this data are sports betting services, and [Ben] …read more
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When the New England Patriots and Los Angeles Rams kick off in Atlanta on Sunday, a network of at least nine operational centers staffed by city, state, and federal officials will be humming with activity near the stadium to monitor for cyber and physical threats. About 60 employees from DHS’s Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) will be onsite — with a DHS cyber official at each operational center — making it one of the biggest DHS cybersecurity operations at a Super Bowl to date. “We really want everything to run smoothly,” Klint Walker, a DHS cybersecurity adviser in Atlanta told CyberScoop, adding that the goal is to keep opportunistic attackers who would target a high-profile event “from making the newspaper.” Walker was part of a team of DHS officials who worked through the 35-day partial government shutdown without pay to finish assessing and mitigating cybersecurity risk at the Super Bowl. […]
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