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...
NASCAR starts using Microsoft app to monitor live data from track
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Amazon’s Alexa adds Fitbit integration to help users track fitness
Amazon’s smart personal assistant wants you to be fit. Or, at least, it can help you get there.
Alexa, the cloud-powered virtual assistant that mainly lives inside the Echo and Fire TV, can now integrate with...
Startup Spotlight: StormSensor helps cities and businesses track stormwater contamination
After spending 12 years as an environmental consultant, Erin Rothman became familiar with the inefficiencies around how companies and government organizations stayed compliant with regulations. Inspired to build...
With its mirror complete, giant space telescope on track for 2018 launch
This week the James Webb Space Telescope team used a robotic am to install the last of the telescope's 18 mirrors onto the telescope structure. (credit: NASA)
After years of delays and cost overruns, the James Webb Space Telescope is finally coming together. This week the 18th and final primary mirror segment of the telescope was...
GeekWire Deals: You can track your phone, but can you track your pet?
It’s super simple to track your phone now, thanks to programs like Find my iPhone and Android Device Manager. Your lost keys are also a thing of the past if you get one of these little dongles. Now, the non-human sentient beings in...
These $450 shoes will warm your feet, track your steps, light your path, tie themselves, and make you look like a complete dork
LAS VEGAS — Think of the Digitsole intelligent shoe as the Swiss Army Knife of connected footwear, complete with built in foot-warmers, step-tracking technology, a front light, shock detection, and more. With a design that could be described as Michael Jordan meets Marty McFly, we aren’t expecting...
Ex-Microsofties launch app to help weightlifters track workouts, compete with friends
Apps like RunKeeper and Strava have utilized smartphone technology to help runners track their workouts and compete with friends. Now, two entrepreneurs want to implement something similar in the weightlifting world. Eric Wagner and Bryan Alger are the co-founders of Gravitus,...
GeekWire Deals: Keep track of your car and charge your phone with this multitasking auto gadget
For an item so big, it’s surprisingly easy to lose your car. Maybe you parked it on the street in an unfamiliar neighborhood and don’t quite remember how to get back there. Or your car is a black sedan that looks like about half the other cars on the road, and you lost it in a crowded mall...
‘Star Wars’ breaks record with advance ticket sales, on track to be highest-grossing film ever
It’s probably not too surprising that Star Wars: The Force Awakens has already set a new record for advance ticket sales, putting it well into contention to become the highest-grossing movie ever. Those are the early numbers being reported, according to the Wall Street Journal. “Most movies would be lucky to open to $ 50 million....
App of the Week: MyBusVue helps parents track school bus routes
In today’s connected world — where you can track an Uber to your door — many parents are clueless about when their children will get home from school. And with a growing list of after school activities, knowing if the kids are running late can help a parent with moment-to-moment planning. A new app from Seattle-based Zonar Systems uses technology...