Iceland International Place 
The Verge
SEPTEMBER 9, 2021
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. The early play-in stage will take place from October 5-9th, followed by the group stage from October 11-18th.
Fast Company Tech
MARCH 31, 2025
After making his mark in Silicon Valley, Icelandic designer and tech mogul Haraldur Halli Thorleifsson is now solving a far more analog problem: the inaccessibility of local storefronts. And this isnt just an Icelandic issue. As a wheelchair user, Thorleifsson knows firsthand how exclusion can be built into a city.
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The Verge
MAY 12, 2021
Today, Valve announced that The International, the annual Dota 2 championship, will return after a one-year hiatus caused by the pandemic. This year’s iteration will take place in Stockholm, with the group stage starting on August 5th. One of the biggest esports tournaments in the world is coming back for 2021.
The Verge
JUNE 16, 2020
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. Mobile contact tracing is already in place in dozens of countries around the globe, although it’s been slow to get off the ground in the US.
The Verge
AUGUST 24, 2021
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. It’s unclear if the shift in location will impact next year’s iteration of Worlds, which is slated to take place in North America.
The Verge
AUGUST 13, 2020
(That’s more than the estimated GDP of Iceland and Yemen combined, according to the International Monetary Fund ). That would buy you popcorn and a movie (if you weren’t currently sheltering in place). We found that huge disparities between racial justice commitments and profits weren’t exclusive to Apple.
Fast Company Tech
MARCH 27, 2025
Many of these expanding lakes are held in place by precarious ice dams or rock moraines deposited by the glacier over centuries. Many people living in the Himalayas, Andes, Alps, Rocky Mountains, Iceland, and Alaska have experienced glacial lake outburst floods of one type or another.
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