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USA Today is publishing automated articles full of links to gambling sportsbooks, which may result in financial kickbacks for the publisher.
Artificial Intelligence

USA TODAY’s Disclaimers on Its Automated Sports Stories Are Longer Than the Actual Articles

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Google's DeepMind has shown off an AI-powered robot that can beat the average Joe player at a game of table tennis.
Robotics

Google Shows Off Robot That It Says Plays Ping Pong as Well as a Human

By Victor Tangermann

Rather than simply scrub its many pages of Lede AI-generated content clean, Gannett is updating the articles to correct their many "errors."
Artificial Intelligence

USA Today Updates Every AI-Generated Sports Article to Correct “Errors”

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

We spoke to a Gannett sports writer about high school sports coverage, why it matters, and what gets lost when you automate.
Artificial Intelligence

Gannett Sports Writer on Botched AI-Generated Sports Articles: “Embarrassing”

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Lede AI, the company powering Gannett's AI sports efforts, is supplying a number of local news publishers with the same service.
Artificial Intelligence

USA Today and Many Other Newspapers Are Churning Out Terrible AI-Generated Sports Stories

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

One of the world's foremost chess grandmasters apparently made a fat finger error for the ages when he accidentally clicked the wrong square and lost a tie.
Future Society

World Chess Champion Loses $30,000 Prize By Clicking Wrong Square

By Noor Al-Sibai

Buffalo Bills safety Damar Hamlin collapsed into cardiac arrest during Monday Night Football. According to some reports, the league wanted to play on.
Developments

NFL Accused of Trying to Continue Game After Player Suffered Cardiac Arrest on Field

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

The official ball of the World Cup makes use of internal sensors that track its movements, but it needs to be charged like any old phone.
Future Society

The World Cup Is So High Tech That They Have to Charge the Balls

By Frank Landymore

To keep the race going during the scorching European heatwave, the Tour de France is pouring water on parts of the course to stop the roads from melting.
Climate Change

Tour de France Pouring Water to Keep Roads From Melting Amid Deadly Heatwave

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

FIFA — international overlord of soccer-slash-football — will be implementing a complex offsides-detecting AI system at the forthcoming World Cup.
Future Society

AI Referee Will Track Players’ Individual Limbs at World Cup

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

The NBA 2019-2020 season has been postponed because of the coronavirus outbreak. But someone has an idea to save it. It's either awful or genius.
Future Society

A Chaotic, Awful, Great Idea to Save the NBA is Here

By Foster Kamer

Just one inning into the "robot umpire" Trackman's major league debut, a human coach decided to pick a fight and got ejected from the game.
Robotics

Baseball Coach Ejected for Fighting With Robot Umpire

By Dan Robitzski

Robot umpires are making their way into professional baseball, calling strikes and balls at the Atlantic League's all-star game Wednesday night.
Future Society

Robot Umpires Make Professional Baseball Debut

By Kristin Houser

An AI Invented a Weird Sport Called “Speedgate”
Artificial Intelligence

An AI Invented a Weird Sport Called “Speedgate”

By Victor Tangermann

Toyota's basketball-playing robot, Cue 3, isn't about to replace athletes, but it does herald a new era of incredibly-precise machinery.
Robotics

Toyota’s Basketball Robot Can Nail Three-Pointers

By Dan Robitzski

Researchers have 3D-printed tissues to replicate the bone and cartilage most often injured through sports — and their creation could save athletes' careers.
3D Printing

These Scientists Are 3D-Printing New Body Parts for Athletes

By Kristin Houser