soccer
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Popular Soccer App Spied On Fans Through Phone Microphone To Catch Bars Pirating Game Streams
Spain’s data protection agency has fined La Liga, the nation’s top professional soccer league, 250,000 euros ($406,633) for using the league’s phone app to spy on its fans. With millions of downloads, the app was reportedly being used to surveil bars in an effort to catch establishments playing matches on television without a licence.
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The World Cup Is Delaying Ant-Man & The Wasp’s UK Release And I, A Stereotypical Nerd, Am Pissed
This week, Ant-Man and The Wasp descends on cinemas. Apparently it’s pretty good! I’d be excited, but alas, I live in the UK — and for a godawful reason, Disney has decided to delay its release here until August 3. That reason is, unfortunately, a bunch of sports people punting balls around in Russia. And…
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You Can Make A Wooden Soccer Ball With Some Masterful Carpentry
Video: You won’t want to actually kick it around without wearing steel-toed shoes, but Russian carpenter Vladimir Zhilenko makes turning a bunch of wooden pentagons into a perfectly-round soccer ball look incredibly easy. The final sanding looks especially satisfying, assuming you don’t accidentally sand away your fingertips in the process.
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We Won At Robot Soccer By Imitating Nature
“In football everything is complicated by the presence of the opposite team.” This observation by the French philosopher Jean-Paul Sartre has been cited in multiple contexts, ranging from tactical planning in team sports, to game-theoretic modelling of microeconomics, to full-blown robotic warfare. The common thread in all these studies is conflict: adversarial interactions bring about…