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August 2014 Articles published to Intel Free Press (www.IntelFreePress.com). Articles: - Levi’s Stadium a Hi-Tech Showcase for ‘Smart’ Sporting Events - Intel Bong Still Going Strong After 20 Years - Smart Bathrooms Mean Cleaner Loos at London Heathrow Airport - Intel Smart Earbuds Now a Reality in SMS Audio BioSport Headphones - Tiny Chip Helping Save Huge Rhinos - Coding for Good: Hackathon for Mathematics - Wearable Tech and Smartphones Could Save Lives of Lone Workers - Tech Interns Create Smart Bike Helmet That Could Save Your Life Intel Free Press is a tech news site from Intel Corporation, covering technology and innovation stories that are often overlooked or warrant more context and deeper reporting. The news and information here is focused on people, technology, events and topics relevant to Intel and the computing industry. The stories, photos and videos we share may be republished, edited, and re-used free of charge unless otherwise noted, so long as you use them with the story they originally run with and do not misrepresent what is happening within them.TRANSCRIPT
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Levi’s Stadium a Hi-Tech
Showcase for ‘Smart’
Sporting EventsAug 1, 2014 - 49ers bet on technology to
boost fan experience.
Over three years in the making, Levi’s
Stadium in Santa Clara will be the new home
of the San Francisco 49ers this fall. Before
the very first kickoff, Major League Soccer
club San Jose Earthquakes will host Seattle
Sounders FC on August 2 as the first event
at the new venue.
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Intel Bong Still Going
Strong After 20 YearsAug 6, 2014 - A three-second audio mnemonic
composed in a Sherman Oaks garage helped
Intel get inside just about everything
By some estimates, it’s played once every
five minutes somewhere in the world. A
simple five-note mnemonic tune composed 20
years ago that, with the help of a clever
marketing slogan, helped Intel become one of
the most recognizable brands in the world.
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Smart Bathrooms Mean
Cleaner Loos at London
Heathrow AirportAug 12, 2014 - How anonymous sensors track
bathroom traffic at the Queen’s Terminal
Intel’s never been shy about applying
technology in new places, and talks often
about computing everywhere. At Intel HQ in
Santa Clara, Calif., the company equips
its restrooms with NFC tags and QR codes so
employees can quickly and easily report the
need for cleaning and service via
smartphone. Now some of that same logic is
moving across the pond.
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Intel Smart Earbuds Now
a Reality in SMS Audio
BioSport HeadphonesAug 14, 2014 - Intel Engineer Indira Negi’spassion for running, biometric experience and maker skills pushes her smart earbuds design to market with 50 Cent’s audio company.
When she literally jogged on-stage to join Intel CEO Brian Krzanich in his opening keynote at International CES 2014 in Las Vegas, engineer Indira Negi was there to demonstrate the Intel smart earbuds that she and her team had developed, but the “smart” design she showed off also helped solve an issue the avid runner had personally encountered. And now, SMS Audio, a premier audio headphone and accessory brand from Curtis “50 Cent” Jackson, has revealed a new smart, biometric earbud product based on Negi and team’s reference design.
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Tiny Chip Helping Save
Huge RhinosAug 20, 2014 - Quark SoCs play integral role in protecting the future of endangered rhinos in South Africa
Thin and light he is not. An adult black rhinoceros can tip the scale — if you can coax him onto one. The adult female pictured above weighs nearly 2 tons, or 4,000 lbs.
In southern Africa new technology is being deployed to help save these critically endangered animals, as well as white rhinos, which poachers are pushing to the brink of extinction.
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Coding for Good:
Hackathon for MathematicsAug 22, 2014 - Summer interns create games aimed at teaching math concepts through gaming
Every summer, students from around the world take part in Intel’s highly sought after internship program, where students gain working experience at a major technology company and Intel taps into young, brilliant minds.
It’s also an opportunity to learn about Intel through training and networking events that supplement actual project work.
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Wearable Tech and
Smartphones Could Save
Lives of Lone Workers
Aug 25, 2014 - Intel considering new
‘digital buddy system’ for workers alone in
isolated areas
Jeannine Chavez was saddened when she
learned that a former co-worker had died
after falling at an industrial wastewater
treatment plant in Maryland in January. It
wasn’t until he failed to return home from
his weekend shift when he was discovered, a
day later, at the base of a ladder where he
was working alone on a Sunday.
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Tech Interns Create Smart
Bike Helmet That Could
Save Your LifeAug 29, 2014 - Interns at Oregon State University and Intel produce smart helmet prototype with potentially life-saving features.
For the past half year, a group of five undergraduate students from Oregon State University has been working with interns at Intel to create a smart safety helmet for cyclists. In a perfect world, the primary function of the helmet – to detect a crash and communicate to emergency contacts –would never be used.
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