French police are reportedly investigating a ransomware attack at a Paris Olympic venue. The attack, the subject of a Tuesday (Aug. 6) report by Reuters, is the latest such incident tied to this year’s summer games. In this case, criminals targeted the central computer system at the...
Artificial intelligence (AI) is set to transform the landscape of the 2024 Paris Olympic Games, ushering in a possible wave of technological advancement and operational efficiency. Guided by the International Olympic Committee (IOC) and its Olympic AI Agenda, AI initiatives will encompass protecting athletes from...
U.S. companies are reportedly looking to this summer’s Paris Olympics to put them ahead of their competitors. Event sponsors have spent 18% more on the upcoming Olympics than they spent on the 2021 summer Olympics, Reuters reported Friday (July 12), citing Comcast’s NBCUniversal. Detailing the ways U.S. firms...
The opening ceremonies of the Paris Olympics are set for just over a month from now, and the event is starting to look a lot like the banking and payments industries: Expect a lot of data, a big dose of AI and the ever-present concern...
July 24, 2024
Artificial intelligence (AI) is set to transform the landscape of the 2024 Paris Olympic Games, ushering in a possible wave of technological advancement and operational efficiency. Guided by the International Olympic Committee (IOC) and its Olympic AI Agenda, AI initiatives will encompass protecting athletes from online threats, enriching broadcast experiences with dynamic multilingual highlights and […]
June 19, 2024
The opening ceremonies of the Paris Olympics are set for just over a month from now, and the event is starting to look a lot like the banking and payments...
August 06, 2024
About three-quarters of the international purchases made in Paris during the first weekend of the Olympic Games were made with contactless payments. Seventy-eight percent of those purchases were contactless, a figure that was 9% higher than that for the same weekend a year earlier, Visa said in a Tuesday (Aug. 6) press release. Visa, which is the […]
August 06, 2024
French police are reportedly investigating a ransomware attack at a Paris Olympic venue. The attack, the subject of a Tuesday (Aug. 6) report by Reuters, is the latest such incident tied to...
July 12, 2024
U.S. companies are reportedly looking to this summer’s Paris Olympics to put them ahead of their competitors. Event sponsors have spent 18% more on the upcoming Olympics than they spent...
