by admin | Jul 22, 2025 | News, sports, tennis, The Conversation, VAR, Wimbledon
The Wimbledon tennis tournament in 2025 has brought us familiar doses of scorching sunshine and pouring rain, British hopes and despair, and the usual queues, strawberries and on-court stardust. One major difference with this year’s tournament, however, has been the... by admin | Sep 2, 2024 | AI, Football, News, Other Tech News, The Conversation, VAR
The start of the new English Premier League (EPL) football season is seeing further changes to the way VAR (the video assistant referee) is operated. VAR was introduced to the EPL in 2019 in an attempt to reduce the number of incorrect refereeing decisions, including... by admin | Nov 20, 2022 | Fifa, Football, News, Other Tech News, The Conversation, VAR, World Cup
The football teams of 32 nations are gathered in Qatar for the quadrennial FIFA World Cup. Some 5 billion people around the world are expected to tune in to watch matches over the course of the month-long tournament. These enormous audiences will be ready to applaud... by admin | Sep 12, 2022 | Football, News, Other Tech News, Premier League, soccer, The Conversation, VAR
In a recent Premier League game, Manchester United went 2-0 up when striker Marcus Rashford ran on to a pass and slotted the ball past Liverpool’s goalkeeper, Alisson Becker. The game was then held up briefly while the “video referee” checked whether Rashford was...