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iPhones will help decide offside violations in English soccer this season

The UK’s top soccer league is switching up the tech it uses to detect offside violations on the football pitch. The English Premier League (EPL) has contracted with a company called Genius Sports, which will use dozens of iPhones combined with machine-learning models to help game officials make an offside call. Offside violations aren’t always clear-cut, especially when players are …

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Elliott’s Starbucks campaign got it a better deal than it asked for

People seen around the Starbucks coffee store in Shenzhen, China. Jakub Porzycki | Nurphoto | Getty Images In May, it was a $2.5 billion stake in Texas Instruments and a $1 billion-plus position at Johnson Controls. In June came a $2 billion stake in Southwest Airlines and an equally large investment in Japanese conglomerate SoftBank. For a $69.7 billion hedge …

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