Sporting goods company Wilson is working with a Finnish startup called SportIQ to create a basketball that uses sensors and artificial intelligence to determine how far the ball traveled and whether the shot was made. It’s not the first application of sensors and algorithms into sports gear — we already have them in football helmets, soccer balls and basketball nets, for example — but the Wilson basketball is pretty unique in that it seems to target individual consumers, meaning anyone with the ball, a hoop and a web connection can start quantifying their game.
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Movie studios sue Megaupload for millions over downloaded Hollywood hits
The U.S. government shut down popular file-storage service, Megaupload, in a 2012 criminal raid, and is still seeking to extradite the site’s CEO, Kim Dotcom, from New Zealand. Now, Disney and five other movie studios have piled on with a civil lawsuit over unauthorized downloads of films like Harry Potter and Transformers.
In a complaint filed in Virginia this week, the studios claimed Megaupload and its owners rewarded users for uploading copyrighted content, and ran a hub where users could obtain a large library of popular movie and TV shows. It said Megaupload systematically ignored evidence of infringement:
For example, even though defendants received more than 85 notices regarding a particular user’s infringing uploads, defendants paid that user $3,400 pursuant to the Uploader Rewards program.
The studios didn’t name a specific damage amount, but the claim could run into tens or hundreds of millions of dollars because the studios are seeking the statutory maximum of $150,000 per infringement. An exhibit to the…
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Pokemon X & Y Become Fastest Selling 3DS Games With 12 Million Copies Sold Worldwide
The Pokémon Company has announced that Pokémon X and Y have become the fastest selling 3DS games in both the franchise’s history and of all time. The two games have sold a staggering 12 million units worldwide since their release last October, with over 400,000 copies sold since January.
The figures were announced alongside a Western license reveal for Pokémon the Movie: Diancie and the Cocoon of Destruction, which is due to be released in Japan this July. The movie’s licensing rights are bound to be snapped up soon, so an official date for 2014 shouldn’t be too far away. Here’s a snippet from the press release confirming those fantastic numbers, plus you can watch a trailer for the upcoming movie above.
“Pokémon X and Pokémon Y recently became the fastest-selling video games for the Nintendo 3DS system, selling nearly 12 million copies worldwide since their October 2013 launch…
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