21 August 2020

Verizon sponsors Psyonix’s North American RLCS X

Psyonix’s Rocket League Championship Series (RLCS) has picked up its first-ever 5G connectivity sponsor, thanks to today’s partnership with Verizon. The sponsorship deal will apply only to the North American…

lecrab 21 August 2020

Technology News

This subscription social network is happy to be an Albatross in a pandemic

In discussions of ethically dubious social networks, Facebook is the usual reference choice. But spare a thought for subscribers of InterNations, a Munich-based social networking community for expats, who have…

lecrab 21 August 2020

eSports

Pittsburgh Knights’ LCK play, Cisco enters League of Legends | ESI Digest #6 (21/08/20)

Each week, ESI Digest breaks down the weekly happenings in the esports industry, making sense of things so you don’t have to. As well as being housed on YouTube, ESI Digest is…

lecrab 21 August 2020

Technology News

CarbonChain is using AI to determine the emissions profile of the world’s biggest polluters

It was the Australian bush fire that finally did it. For 12 years Adam Hearne had worked at companies that represented some of the world’s largest sources of greenhouse gas…

lecrab 21 August 2020

eSports

Pittsburgh Knights partners with SeolHaeOne Prince parent company APE

SeolHaeOne Prince parent company Absolute Power eSports (APE) has entered a partnership with North American organisation Pittsburgh Knights. The multi-year deal will see Pittsburgh Knights and APE “establish operations in South Korea and…

lecrab 21 August 2020

Technology News

Facebook trails expanding portability tools ahead of FTC hearing

Facebook is considering expanding the types of data its users are able to port directly to alternative platforms. In comments on portability sent to US regulators ahead of an FTC hearing…

lecrab 21 August 2020