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Tokyo 2020 will be the first Olympic Games to use facial recognition
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The 2018 Winter Olympics had quite the tech spectacle with 1,200 Intel drones producing a memorable light show. However, it’s likely the 2020 Tokyo Olympics won’t make as big a deal for a new technological feat: widespread facial recognition for increased security.
No, this isn’t some science-fiction dystopian future. Select attendees of the games — including athletes, media, staff, and volunteers — will have their identities verified via a face scan to enter venues, the Tokyo Organizing Committee said in an announcement. This extra level of security will be at all of the Tokyo 2020 games as well as the Paralympic Games — a first for both. Read more…
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The ‘darkest building on Earth’ is at the Winter Olympic Games
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“There’s something about this that’s so black, it’s like how much more black could this be? And the answer is none. None more black.”
Spinal Tap’s inane discussion of their pitch-black album cover is the best way we can get a handle on the brand-new pavilion unveiled at the Pyeongchang Winter Olympic Games in South Korea.
A new project commissioned by Hyundai, British architect Asif Khan’s 10-meter-high temporary building has been erected specifically for the Games, which officially begin on Friday, Feb. 9.
In what’s being called “the darkest building on Earth,” Khan’s structure has employed a sprayable version of the ominous Vantablack pigment. Created by UK researchers in 2014 and trademarked by British artist Anish Kapoor, Vantablack is touted as the darkest known artificial substance in the world — it absorbs up to 99.965 percent of light that hits its surface. Read more…
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