{"id":218050,"date":"2025-07-16T10:14:12","date_gmt":"2025-07-16T15:14:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/07\/british-built-hawk-eye-software-goes-dark-during-wimbledon-match"},"modified":"2025-07-16T10:14:12","modified_gmt":"2025-07-16T15:14:12","slug":"british-built-hawk-eye-software-goes-dark-during-wimbledon-match","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/07\/british-built-hawk-eye-software-goes-dark-during-wimbledon-match","title":{"rendered":"British-built Hawk-Eye software goes dark during Wimbledon match"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/british-built-hawk-eye-software-goes-dark-during-wimbledon-match.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Wimbledon\u2019s new automated line-calling system glitched during a tennis match Sunday, just days after it replaced the tournament\u2019s human line judges for the first time.<\/p>\n<p>The system, called Hawk-Eye, uses a network of cameras equipped with computer vision to track tennis balls in real-time. If the ball lands out, a pre-recorded voice loudly says, \u201cOut.\u201d If the ball is in, there\u2019s no call and play continues.<\/p>\n<p>However, the <a href=\"https:\/\/thenextweb.com\/topic\/software\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">software<\/a> temporarily went dark during a women\u2019s singles match between Brit Sonay Kartal and Russian Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova on Centre Court.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wimbledon\u2019s new automated line-calling system glitched during a tennis match Sunday, just days after it replaced the tournament\u2019s human line judges for the first time. The system, called Hawk-Eye, uses a network of cameras equipped with computer vision to track tennis balls in real-time. If the ball lands out, a pre-recorded voice loudly says, \u201cOut.\u201d [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1523,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-218050","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computing","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218050","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/662"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=218050"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218050\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=218050"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=218050"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=218050"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}