Why Sports in Space Could Be the Next Big Thing
Pursuits from space soccer to Martian mountaineering are already in early planning stages. “People going into space are competitive thrill-seekers,” says…
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How AI Could Help Predict—and Avoid—Sports Injuries, Boost Performance
Imagine a stadium where ultra-high-resolution video feeds and camera-carrying drones track how individual players’ joints flex during a game, how high they…
Hashtag United: How a YouTube Streaming Channel Turned Into a Real Soccer Team
PITSEA, England—The great names of English soccer ring with the echoes of Britain’s industrial past—Liverpool’s docks, the railway works that gave birth to…
Paramount+ Adds 6.8 Million Subscribers in First Quarter
Paramount Global
PARA 3.95%
said its main streaming platform, Paramount+, added…
Immigrant From India Headed U.S. Software Firms
After earning an M.B.A. at Kent State University and working for International Business Machines Corp., Umang Gupta was tempted to return to his native India…
Holocaust Survivor, Who Hid in a Sewer, Headed U.S. Tech Firm
At age 16,
Carl H. Rosner
already had endured the breakup of his parents’ marriage in Hamburg, Germany, life in an orphanage…
Plaid Co-Founder Takes Aim at Rickety Banking Tech
Lots of tech entrepreneurs who strike gold splurge on trophy homes.
William Hockey
bought a bank.Northern California…
Videogames ‘Fortnite,’ ‘Minecraft’ Catapult Smiley Salamander to Global Fame
Pollution and other man-made ills weigh heavily on Mexico’s axolotl, a rare salamander popular among Aztecs back in the day.Its population in the wild has…
Entrepreneur Drove Computing and Audio Forward Through Decades of Disease
Thomas Yuen
was working in 1980 as an electrical engineer in Southern California when his kidneys failed and he learned he…
Zillow’s Shuttered Home-Flipping Business Lost $881 Million in 2021
Zillow Group
Z -1.75%
said on Thursday that it lost $881 million on its…