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How the Sports and Entertainment Industry Is Reinventing the Fan Experience and Enhancing Revenues with Computer Vision

CIO Business Intelligence

Data-driven venues from sporting events and concerts to other live events are helping to bolster the entertainment industry while simultaneously helping to ensure a safer environment for all. . However, the sports and entertainment industry, like many others, experienced a huge loss of revenue over the last few years.

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Portland Trail Blazers offering device from Seattle startup to help vision-impaired fans track action

GeekWire

The Trail Blazers are the first professional sports team to provide the haptic device from OneCourt at every home game. (Portland Trail Blazers Photo) The Portland Trail Blazers will offer technology from a Seattle startup to help blind and low-vision fans better follow the action on the basketball court.

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Arm unveils mobile GPU with hardware ray tracing

TechSpot

Called Immortalis and sporting at least 10 cores, it will bring hardware-based ray tracing and a new execution engine to high-end Android phones. Arm announced a new flagship mobile GPU as part of a roadmap of upcoming CPUs and GPUs this week. It will also feature Variable Rate Shading (VRS).

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Tagboard, which helps cable giants and sports teams produce live content, lands $8M

GeekWire

Seattle-area startup Tagboard raised $8 million to boost its live production technology used by sports and entertainment companies. Tagboard still works with sports teams and leagues to surface social posts but has also expanded its products to include a cloud-based production platform and graphics system. .

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Ransomware, zero-day exploits keep network security pros scrambling

Network World

The key to fighting a ransomware attack is to be well prepared – “like the sports analogy, you need to build muscle to fight back effectively,” Anderson said. It was pretty easy to do segmentation when you had a three-tiered architecture, and every tier of the architecture ran on a dedicated piece of hardware.

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Seattle startup wants to bring vision-impaired sports fans closer to the action with tactile device

GeekWire

A Seattle startup’s touch is bringing blind or low-vision sports fans closer to the games they love with a device that lets them “feel” what’s happening on the field or court. OneCourt ‘s technology and hardware translates gameplay data into spatial haptics. ” Mace said.

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The first hardware revision of the PS5 looks like a step backwards

TechSpot

YouTuber Austin Evans was able to get one of the new CFI-11-series PlayStation units imported from Japan to compare it with a launch model (watch below), and while it sported a lighter weight and a new hand-adjustable stand screw as expected, a cursory test also found that temperatures at the.

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