For visually impaired sports fans at stadiums around the world, following a match often means relying on commentators or those around them to describe the action. Now, an Irish startup is looking to create a more level playing field. Dublin-based Field of Vision has produced a handheld, haptic feedback device that it says can help blind and partially sighted fans ...
Wimbledon is to replace all of its line judges with Live Electronic Line Calling from 2025, the tournament’s organisers have said. In a major break from tradition, the championships will follow the lead of the other Grand Slam tournaments, the Australian Open and US Open, as well as a number of other tour events. Hawk-Eye technology has been used on ...
Briton Sir Demis Hassabis has been awarded the Nobel Prize for chemistry, jointly with two other scientists. The trio of Sir Demis, as well as Americans Professor David Baker and Dr John Jumper, were honoured on Wednesday for their work on decoding the structure of proteins and creating new ones. The research has helped advances across a range of areas ...
“I don’t think the committee had our phone numbers,” said Sir Demis Hassabis. He found out he’d won the Nobel Prize for chemistry – but the Swedish awards committee had a hard job letting him know. They ended up phoning Sir Demis’s wife on Microsoft Teams, who was working and repeatedly ignored them. “Eventually about the third or fourth call, ...
The coordinated campaign of Vice President Kamala Harris made history this week when it became the first to raise $1 billion in less than 80 days since she entered the race, according to multiple people familiar with the haul. But her campaign leadership is worried that they still might not have enough to win — and that news of the ...
A group of Republican congressmen from Pennsylvania have filed a federal lawsuit seeking stricter scrutiny of votes cast by U.S. citizens living abroad, reflecting a new GOP strategy to challenge the eligibility of a group of voters that includes overseas military personnel. The lawmakers claim in the suit, which was filed this week, that because local election officials in Pennsylvania ...
After sticking mainly to set events and campaign rallies, Vice President Kamala Harris has been on an extensive media tour in recent days, from traditional shows such as CBS’s “60 Minutes” to popular targeted programs such as the “Call Her Daddy” podcast and Howard Stern’s radio show. Harris tends to hew to the facts — and many of the same ...
CHARLEROI, Pa. — Donald Trump was eager to tell a new horror story about this tiny Rust Belt borough where hundreds of Haitians arrived in recent years to fill factory jobs. “Have you heard of it?” he asked, introducing a place that would become part of his anti-immigrant closing argument. “The town is virtually bankrupt,” Trump continued at a recent ...
As President Joe Biden delivered a solemn warning Wednesday about Hurricane Milton — urging Floridians to heed local officials and brace for “the storm of the century” — he paused before offering another admonition, one chiefly aimed at Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump. “The last few weeks, there’s been a reckless, irresponsible, relentless promotion of disinformation and outright lies that ...
SCRANTON, Pa. — Donald Trump can’t stop running against President Joe Biden. At a campaign event in the president’s boyhood hometown Wednesday, Trump mentioned their June 27 debate, questioned his former opponent’s mental competence and misleadingly characterized Vice President Kamala Harris’s selection as the Democratic nominee as a “coup.” Trump has spent weeks trying to tie Harris, who holds a ...