Twitter teams up with NBC for live 2020 Olympics coverage

NBC is slightly loosening its firm grasp on its Olympic Games broadcast rights. It's teaming up with Twitter to bring limited live coverage and highlights, along with a daily 20-minute Olympics show, to Twitter's website and apps during the Tokyo 202...

Robots will serve as guides for the 2020 Olympics

You didn't think a 2020 summer Olympics set in Japan would go without some robots, did you? Sure enough, they're on their way. The Tokyo Olympics' Organizing Committee has launched a Tokyo 2020 Robot Project that will have automatons providing assis...

A US Paralympian designed Team USA’s snowboard prosthetics

Mike Schultz was a professional snowmobile racer, and a damn good one at that. But in 2008, his life's course took a turn after a competition accident shattered his left knee and left him clinging to life. When his injuries began causing his kidneys...

The Olympics’ VR aspirations will be powered by Intel tech

Intel is teaming up with the International Olympic Committee on "future experiences" for the Olympics, the company announced today at an event in New York City. The new partnership, which will run through the 2024 games, is set to focus on tech like...

Ubisoft’s ‘Steep’ will soon take you to the 2018 Winter Olympics

Ubisoft's extreme sports, open-world game Steep is getting its first full expansion pack later this year. The "Road to the Olympics" add-on will, as the name suggests, take you into an experience tied around the 2018 Winter Olympics in PyeongChang, S...

Adidas rewards its medal-winning Olympians with 3D-printed shoes

It's too early to tell whether 3D-printed footwear will ever be more than a gimmick. Still, you have to give credit to sportswear brands for trying something new, even if in some cases 3D printing is only used to make outsole prototypes. Last year, A...

Nike used 3D printing and Olympic sprinters to design its new track shoe

When Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce competes in the women's 100m and 4x100m relay at the Olympics this month, she'll do so wearing what Nike claims is one of its most advanced track and field shoes yet. The 29-year-old Jamaican, who is favored for gold in R...

How to watch the 2016 Rio Olympics

The summer Olympics are just a few days away, and whether or not you're a sports fan, chances are you'll want to keep up with everything that happens in Rio de Janeiro. Thankfully, you'll have many options to watch this year's games. But before we te...

Watch the Olympics in 4K Ultra HD on Comcast, DirecTV or Dish

The 2016 Summer Olympic Games are almost here, and despite the issues present in Rio, watching from home should be better than ever. If you're in need of something else to display on your brand new Ultra HD television then we have good news -- NBC wi...

NBC: Rio 2016 broadcast is its ‘most live Olympics ever’

While NBC has been criticized for years over its use of tape delay, a combination of multiple channels, live streaming and Brazil's favorable time zone (just hour ahead of ET) mean that shouldn't be a problem this summer. For Rio 2016, NBC says this...