Technology insights for the sporting goods industry – Page 5
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ArticleTikTok Shop coming to Spain and Ireland
The social-media app is expanding its e-commerce in Europe.
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News briefsGlassFloor to make EuroLeague debut
The OAKA Arena in Athens will be the first EuroLeague basketball venue to regularly host games on the futuristic flooring.
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News briefsA football for women
Amaya Núñez Martín designed a football, especially for women, for her final project at the IED Madrid.
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News briefsStay of execution for Google Chrome’s cookie
Google has decided against, or been compelled to decide against, the deprecation of third-party cookies in its Chrome browser.
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ArticleAsics tests production of customized on-demand insoles
Asics and Dassault Systèmes have opened a test studio near Paris to trial on-demand personalized insoles.
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ArticleSkidata sold to Swedish Assa Abloy group
Swiss-American Kudelski Group has signed a definitive agreement to sell its Skidata business after 23 years to Swedish Assa Abloy.
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ArticleMeta reportedly wants 5% in Essilux to develop smart glass business
According to media reports, Meta is in talks to acquire a 5% stake in Essilor-Luxottica, just a few days after the eyewear group announced the takeover of Supreme.
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News briefsIOC goes virtual for Paris 2024
The IOC and Visa have set up a metaverse called Olympic World on Roblox to engage with young spectators during the Summer Games in Paris.
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ArticleOn with first robot made spray-on shoe
Swiss running brand On has released its biggest product news in a long time. Meet the Cloudboom Strike LS, a spray-on running shoe. Made by a robot.
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News briefsLaying the smart tech underfoot
A company called Feldspar is developing a novel smart track for running – for both training and entertainment.
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News briefsATP introduces fitness-tracking for players
Players on the ATP Tour and ATP Challenger Tour have, since July 15, enjoyed the ATP’s permission to wear certain wearables in competition. This apparent redundancy refers, of course, to fitness trackers, specifically the devices made by StatSports and Catapult. The data that these wearables generate – heart rate and ...
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News briefsVans introducing a second metaverse
Vans is working on a second virtual release on the games and metaverse platform Roblox, following up Vans World with Vans Word 2, according to Marketing Dive. Users of the platform will have a first look at the Mixxa, the first shoe the brand will have released before sales begin ...
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ArticleVeteran sportscaster cloned for the Olympics
Like everything else these days, NBC-Universal’s coverage of this year’s Olympic Games will have an AI dimension. On its streaming service, Peacock, the network will offer “Your Daily Olympic Recap,” a ten-minute series of highlights from the previous day’s coverage narrated by an AI-generated version of the voice of Al ...
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ArticleTrusTrace launches updated AI-powered forced labor prevention solution
Stockholm-based global SaaS company TrusTrace, which offers a unique product traceability and supply chain compliance platform for the fashion and retail industries, announced the launch of its updated, AI-powered Forced Labor Prevention (FLP) solution that will help brands proactively map supply chains, screen them for risk and efficiently collect evidence ...
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ArticleAI fashion catalog promises to save time and money
A London-headquartered start-up founded in 2022, Truss, is cataloguing the world’s clothes, or at least the share of it produced by fashion houses. As Truss sees things, its product is useful for e-commerce and resale, for fashion brands themselves and for marketplaces, but also for insurers, which require proper appraisals ...
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ArticleDawn of the connected ball
The video assistant referee (VAR) has been a part of professional football in some capacity since at least 2016, with trials going back years before, but it hit the big time at the FIFA World Cup in 2018. Now, six years later, an extended version of it has cost Belgium ...
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ArticleApple seeking cheaper alternative to its VR headset
Apple appears to be directing its efforts away from a second edition of its Vision Pro headset and toward a cheaper version, according to Mac Rumors, which cites reporting by The Information. The Vision Pro’s retail price is $3,499. (The 14-inch MacBook Pro, by comparison, ranges in price from $1,599 ...
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ArticleA biometric day at the links
The United States Golf Association (USGA) is introducing facial scans for admissions at the US Open, according to Find Biometrics, which cites Sports Business Journal. The system was tested a couple of weeks ago at the US Women’s Open (Lancaster Country Club, Pennsylvania), where about a thousand fans per day ...
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ArticleAn open letter on AI, and the advent of AI OS
More than a dozen current and former employees of some major AI companies have set up a website and published an open letter to companies in the industry on it. Titled “A Right to Warn about Advanced Artificial Intelligence,” the letter acknowledges AI’s potential benefits but seeks to underscore its ...
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News briefsDecathlon Spain suffers indirect cyberattack
On May 27, according to Europa Press, Ciclogreen, the company behind an eponymous mobile app through which corporate employees can “earn rewards for recording their sustainable commutes to work by participating in fun challenges,” endured a cyberattack. One of Ciclogreen’s clients is Decathlon Spain, some of whose employee email addresses ...
