NASCAR officials have started using a new Windows 10 app from Microsoft to monitor live video feeds and transponder data from cars, giving the control...
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Maana raises $26M from top oil and gas investors for big data analytics platform
Maana is raising a big round of funding to fuel growth of its big data search engine platform that helps Fortune 100 companies maximize...
Dynamics from noisy data with extreme timing uncertainty
Imperfect knowledge of the times at which ‘snapshots’ of a system are recorded degrades our ability to recover dynamical information, and can scramble the sequence of events. In X-ray free-electron lasers, for example, the uncertainty—the so-called timing jitter—between the arrival of an optical trigger (‘pump’) pulse and a probing X-ray pulse can exceed the length of the X-ray pulse by up to two orders...
New Relic partners with Major League Baseball to highlight data and analytics in sports
Major League Baseball is partnering with San Francisco-based tech giant New Relic to highlight how data and analytics impact the games we love to watch and play.
The two organizations have worked together in the past, with MLB’s technology arm using New Relic software for its internal needs. Now they are publicly...
Mounting data suggest antibacterial soaps do more harm than good
Whether you’re coming home from an airport fluttering with international germs, a daycare full of sticky-fingered toddlers, or just a grimy office building, scrubbing your hands with bacteria-busting soap seems like a great idea. But the data that have washed up on the cleansers in recent years suggest that they actually do more harm...
Apple likely can’t force FBI to disclose how it got data from seized iPhone
The US government isn't saying whether it will divulge to Apple the method it used to access the locked iPhone seized by one of the San Bernardino shooters. The iPhone has been at the center of a bitter dispute between Apple and the Federal Bureau of Investigation. But that legal battle—in which a...
GeekWire Radio: Technology vs. traffic, Xbox One + PS4, secrets of sports data, and Amazon is everywhere
This week on the GeekWire radio show: A new initiative called Challenge Seattle aims to solve the region’s...
Basketball legend Sue Bird on the data disparity between men’s and women’s sports
BOSTON — Sue Bird doesn’t consider herself a geek —...
GeekWire Radio: Device combats package thieves, data transforms sports, Amazon’s bookstore ambitions, and Jeff Bezos’ rocket factory
This week on the GeekWire radio show and podcast: A new invention aims to keep packages from getting stolen from porches, Expedia unveils its Seattle campus designs, Jenn Risko of book...
Comcast looks to expand X1 sports platform, acquires data startup OneTwoSee
More and more sports fans are interacting with a “second screen” — a phone, a tablet, a laptop, etc. — while they watch live sports on TV as a...