Ghost Goals

According to official estimates, FIFA is paying a small German start-up nearly $3.5 million to operate its new goal-line technology in the 2014 World Cup, which kicks off Thursday in Brazil.

The company, called GoalControl, would install 14 cameras in each of the 12 World Cup stadiums that triangulate the motion of the ball with maximum precision: up to 500 images per second.

With that tracking, plus sensors on the goal line, GoalControl can instantly alert a referee when the ball crosses the line. There’s no need to consult a replay booth or another official; the referee in charge merely looks at their smartwatch.

In other words, say “tchau” to ghost goals in Brazil.

"The cameras are connected to a powerful image-processing computer system which tracks the movement of all objects on the pitch and filters out the players, referees and all disturbing objects," a GoalControl representative said.

If the system registers that the ball has crossed the goal line, it can send a vibration and a visual “GOAL” signal to referees’ watches within a second.

GoalControl says the idea was developed by Dirk Broichhausen, a company founder, after he attended a soccer match in Germany in which there was a dispute over a goal. He began contacting technicians the next day.

For Broichhausen’s fellow Germans, though, the invention came nearly a half-century late.

Google $1 Billion Deployment of Satellites

The tubes that frame the net cowl much of the globe, however not all of it. Google has declared plans to urge web to wherever the tubes cannot reach, with 3 technologies: balloons, high-altitude solar-powered drones, and also the latest, satellites in space.

Google wouldn’t be the primary to use satellites to hide the planet in web. the first dotcom boom of the late Nineties saw corporations like Ir, Globalstar, and Teledisc market satellite phones and promise web service, however most failing or declared bankruptcy within the face of tremendous initial prices and poor management. In 2010, the Pentagon tested routing web through a satellite. Google’s own satellite team are going to be headed by eminent alumni of satellite web company O3b.

It is ahead of time to mention whether or not Google’s balloons, drones, or satellites can with success expand web access to the components of the globe while not it. Whichever works, it’s clear that Google is willing to travel to the sting of house and on the far side to unfold the net on the far side the terrestrial tyranny of tubes.

Infrascale

Cloud powered-data protection provider company Infrascale offers declared its motives to buy many other cloud solutions company Eversync Answers, furthering this company’s press into your expanding cloud burn and also retrieval market. The actual understanding to acquire Eversync had been made possible when Infrascale obtained an extra $16. 3 thousand with Collection W financing by buyer Carrick Cash Partners having more informing by DH Cash.

“I think a really important thing for our channel to understand is that we’re already a profitable company,” said Ken Shaw Jr., founder and CEO of Infrascale, in an interview with The VAR Guy. “For us, the capital allows us to do new and exciting things around technology and R&D and bringing new products to markets for our partners.”

The actual financing will permit Infrascale to aid its development and also speed up its check out market method, although widening its product collection from the buy of Eversync. Infrascale ideas to make use of this buy to realize the foothold inside the swiftly widening globe of cloud burn and also retrieval, which surpass $2 billion with 2013, in line with IDC. The complete amount of this buy was not unveiled.