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NASCAR is moving 57 years of car racing footage to Amazon's cloud, and says AI will help spin out new shows without thousands of hours of manual tagging

On Tuesday, NASCAR announced it picked Amazon Web Services as its preferred cloud for its largest cloud endeavor. NASCAR plans to use AWS to store its 500,000 hours of archived...
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Byron tops 173 mph and hits fast lap to win pole at Pocono

16 days ago | Miami Herald | 2 articles

William Byron turned the fast lap at Pocono in the latest sign that Hendrick Motorsports may have turned the corner and can stamp itself a NASCAR championship contender...
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The Latest: NASCAR 'pleased' with $2B deal with ISC

26 days ago | Star Tribune

NASCAR to buy Intl. Speedway, owner of Daytona, Talladega

26 days ago | Miami Herald

NASCAR is buying International Speedway in a deal worth about $2 billion. International Speedway Corp. owns some of America's most well known car racing facilities including...
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NASCAR to use All-Star race for research, development again

30 days ago | Miami Herald

NASCAR's All-Star race has arrived, and so has the tinkering of the cars. NASCAR is using the $1 million non-points race at Charlotte Motor Speedway as a research and...
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How NASCAR plans to boost ratings and attendance, plus more top sports business stories

1 month ago | Comcast SportsNet Baltimore

Rick Horrow sits down with Jon Butler, Executive Director, Pop Warner, Tony Ponturo, former CEO, Anheuser-Busch Media Group EVP Strategy, Turnkey Sports & Entertainment, and...
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Video: Bucks Fan Buys Danica Patrick Drink in Front of Aaron Rodgers at Game 5

1 month ago | Bleacher Report

Former NASCAR star Danica Patrick's money is no good at Fiserv Forum-at least not to one fan. As she was sitting courtside with boyfriend Aaron Rodgers at the Game 5 showdown ...
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NASCAR data partnership could lead to more in-race betting

1 month ago | Review Journal | 2 articles

NASCAR is hoping a sports data partnership will lead to gamblers being able to bet during races on much more than just who gets the checkered flag.
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NASCAR's Talladega Superspeedway is so big, you could fit all 14 SEC football stadiums inside

1 month ago | Business Insider

It is often difficult to truly appreciate the speed and size of NASCAR on television. NASCAR's biggest track is Talladega Superspeedway, a 2.66-mile tri-oval. A graphic created...
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British Airways and BrewDog used on-board coffee pots to brew the world's first beer at 40,000 ft

1 month ago | Business Insider

British Airways has teamed up with Scottish brewery BrewDog to create the world's first beer brewed on a flying airplane. The BrewDog cofounders used tea and coffee pots to mix...
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Socialite fashion designer Gloria Vanderbilt has died at the age of 95

Gloria Vanderbilt, the heiress fashion designer, has died at the age of 95. Vanderbilt's son, CNN anchor Anderson Cooper, revealed the news to his network Monday morning. Visit... Read more ...

An 8-year-old boy is believed to be the third shark attack victim in North...

An 8-year-old boy was in the ocean at Bald Head Island on Sunday at around 4 p.m. when a shark grabbed his leg, village manager Chris McCall said. The boy was treated for... Read more ...

Steve Harvey is hosting a festival at a Dominican Republic resort where at...

The third-annual Steve Harvey Sand and Soul Festival is taking place from October 10 to October 14 at the all-inclusive Hard Rock Hotel and Casino in Punta Cana. The Hard Rock... Read more ...

Companies plead with Trump against new China tariffs

Hundreds of representatives of companies and trade groups are warning President Donald Trump that carrying out his plan to impose on tariffs on $300 billion more in Chinese... Read more ...

Patrick Drahi, behind the $3.7 billion Sotheby's acquisition, is no stranger...

Patrick Drahi, the founder of Dutch telecoms company Altice, is taking the iconic auction house Sotheby's private in a $3.7 billion deal . The Sotheby's acquisition under... Read more ...

Trump used Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez's words to defend himself. She responded...

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez said she'd call President Donald Trump's "bluff" after Trump took used her words to defend himself against growing calls on the left to impeach... Read more ...

Pillsbury is joining Aldi and King Arthur Flour in recalling flour amid...

Pillsbury 's parent company has recalled 4,620 cases of flour due to E. coli concerns. The flour was made with a certain wheat that has been linked to an E. coli outbreak that... Read more ...

How to change your Google Chrome theme, or create your own custom theme, for...

You can change your Google theme to change the way your Google Chrome browser looks, making it more personalized and fun to use the browser. You can select from thousands of... Read more ...

Carli Lloyd appeared to troll critics by doing a golf clap after scoring in...

Carli Lloyd scored two goals in the U.S. Women's National Team's 3-0 win over Chile in the 2019 Women's World Cup . After both goals, Lloyd celebrated with a golf clap... Read more ...

Airbus leapt ahead of Boeing in an untapped market by launching a smaller...

Airbus just announced the launch of the A321XLR, a new a long-range, single-aisle airliner - a smaller plane that can do longer flights. It has beaten Boeing to an untapped... Read more ...