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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. One day later, on May 24th, Riot will kick off Valorant Champions Tour (VCT) Masters Reykjavik, which the studio says is the first live international tournament for the game. Image: Riot Games.

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

The Verge

A new study analyzing COVID-19 contact tracing apps conducted by Amnesty International has found that Bahrain and Kuwait are using their public health apps as mass surveillance tools. In one extreme case, some citizens who downloaded the BeAware Bahrain contact tracing app became contestants on a televised game show called Are You At Home?

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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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44.01 secures $5M to turn billions of tons of carbon dioxide to stone

TechCrunch

” Other mineralization efforts have broken ground on the concept, so to speak, such as a basalt-injection scheme up in Iceland, so it isn’t without precedent. It’s an evolving and highly complex overlapping area of international regulations, taxes, and corporate policy.). Third is sourcing the CO2 itself.

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NASA Deletes Comic Book About How Women Can Be Astronauts

Futurism

pic.twitter.com/5FVFDtBJxQ — NASA Technology (@NASA_Technology) October 18, 2023 Shortly after Trump took office in January, NASA leadership issued a directive ordering employees to scrub a whole host of terms that the administration would deem "woke," including any content "specifically targeting" women. and to continue the story." "I

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Zootonic diseases to wildlife trade: Here’s how ecological disruptions threaten national security

Fast Company Tech

But they, too, can cause social and political instability, economic strife and strained international relations. Overexploitation of ocean fisheries is a common root of international conflict. The Icelandic government sought to ban British trawlers from a broader area around the countrys coast, but the British continued to fish.