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Riot is bringing in-person League of Legends and Valorant tournaments to Iceland

The Verge

Riot Games plans to host two big esports tournaments in Reykjavik, Iceland, the studio announced on Monday. Not all competition has been online, though: Riot hosted last year’s League of Legends World Championship in person in Shanghai with strict safety protocols. Image: Riot Games.

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Chinese court returns over 485,000 Radeon GPUs to cloud mining company

TechSpot

Following their ongoing lawsuit against Chinese hosting provider Chuangshiji Technology Limited, China's Supreme Court has sided with Genesis Mining and ordered the return of more than 485,000 graphics processing units (GPUs) to the Iceland-based cloud mining company.

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League of Legends’ world championships will take place in Iceland

The Verge

The League of Legends World Championship, the concluding tournament that brings together the best teams from across the world, will take place in Reykjavík, Iceland at the Laugardalshöll indoor sporting arena. Alongside the reveal of the host city, Riot also detailed a schedule for the tournament. via Getty Images.

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League of Legends’ 2022 world championship will be a multi-city affair

The Verge

The 2021 edition of Worlds just wrapped up earlier this month in Reykjavík, Iceland, after originally being planned for Shenzen, China. ( The competition moved countries due to the pandemic.)

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League of Legends’ world championships moved from China to Europe

The Verge

This will be the second major League of Legends tournament to take place in Europe this year, following May’s Mid-Season Invitational hosted in Reykjavik, Iceland. Worlds is typically a big annual showcase for Riot, with past events including an opening ceremony powered by holograms and a mixed reality stage.

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What I learned after running my startup while traveling for a year

TechCrunch

We started off with a one-month trip to Iceland, where we worked from an Airbnb with a beautiful view of the mountains. I remember speaking to one of our investors from Iceland, and he remarked on the view in my background — he didn’t realize I wasn’t in Paris and didn’t mind at all.

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Gulf states using COVID-19 contact tracing apps as mass surveillance tools, report says

The Verge

The study analyzed a collection of contact tracing apps, which are designed to inform and monitor physical contact between people in the event someone contracts COVID-19, from 11 countries: Algeria, Bahrain, France, Iceland, Israel, Kuwait, Lebanon, Norway, Qatar, Tunisia, and United Arab Emirates.

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