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Guardia di Finanza Shuts Down 600 Pirate Football Sites (DTE)

A major anti-piracy operation has been carried out by Italian authorities to seize more than 600 websites that were illegally streaming the ongoing UEFA Euro 2020 championships. En... More

Employees Will Not Give Up Remote Working Easily (Tech Monitor)

New figures from the Office of National Statistics show that 85% of UK employees currently working from home want a hybrid approach in future.... More

Microsoft Expands Partnership With Spain’s La Liga (SportTechie)

La Liga has expanded its technology partnership with Microsoft to build new fan engagement features through Azure, the tech giant’s cloud computing service. The partnership inclu... More

Soccer Clubs Embrace Cryptocurrency, but Fans are Divided (Reuters)

Supporters are divided over the so-called fan tokens. Some appreciate the novel way to engage with their teams - and help make decisions, even if only on small-time matters such as... More

IBM, The Overwatch League are Using Watson AI to Figure Out the Best Player on Each Hero (Forbes)

One of the best additions to the Overwatch League this year is the Power Rankings generated by IBM Watson. IBM Watson has been using AI to analyse hundreds of data points and gener... More

NAGRA to Contribute to the Future of the Open Digital TV System in Brazil

NAGRA is now part of the Brazilian Digital TV System Forum. As a result of this joint work between the private sector and the government, the ISDB-T system (TV standard initially a... More

Is Live Shopping Set to Become a Hit in the UK? (Raconteur)

Live shopping events have become a multi-billion-pound success story in China. Western brands are watching, learning and starting to adopt this highly interactive sales channel.... More

Building Games in the Cloud, Microsoft Azure Developers Level Up (Forbes)

Software engineers building games applications must now embrace a more virtualised cloud-centric existence. Explaining how his team uses Azure services for everything from virtual ... More

Mobile Gaming Industry to be Worth $272B by 2030 (GI)

Analyst firm attributes growth to streaming, cloud gaming, technical parity to consoles, and more.... More

Microsoft to Launch Xbox Cloud Gaming Service for TV (CNBC)

The company is betting the future of video games will be a subscription-based model where people pay a certain amount of money each month to get access to a plethora of titles. Its... More

Building a Compliance QA Services Team in Katowice – From the Ground Up (Keywords Blog)

Compliance QA requires a massive change of mindset. It’s not essential to make sure that the game works like it should from the player’s perspective, like on Functionality QA (... More

Europe Wants to Go Its Own Way on Digital Identity (TechCrunch)

The EU does already have a regulation on electronic authentication systems, which entered into force in 2014, but the commission’s intention with the e-ID proposal is to expand o... More

Voice Assistants in More Than Half of UK Homes (DTE)

According to consumer research from Ampere Analysis, 52% of internet households own a voice assistant device in the UK, while that figure stands at 49% for US households. Across al... More

AppTek Spotlighted for Customer Experience Insights, Behaviours

Leading independent research firm cites AppTek amongst other vendors for their role in helping enterprises deliver customer experience (CX) insights and improve CX behaviours at sc... More

Portugal Broadcasts First Football Matches Over 5G (TVB)

5G has been used on camera feeds, to help create a hologram of one of the players, and to enable a roving reporter to move around the stadium.... More

The EU Digital ID Scheme Could be a Boon for SMEs but a Security Nightmare (Tech Monitor)

The EU's plans for a bloc-wide digital ID scheme could be great for businesses and consumers, but may fall down on privacy and security.... More

IBM Releases AI Model Toolkit to Help Developers Measure Uncertainty (VentureBeat)

IBM has open-sourced Uncertainty Quantification 360 (UQ360), a new toolkit focused on enabling AI to understand and communicate its uncertainty. Following in the footsteps of IBM�... More

Keywords Launches Scarab Games Studio to Bring Together the Biggest Brands, Next-Gen Consoles Titles (MCVD)

The new studio has something of a different focus to any we’ve seen before. The idea is that it’s a complete turnkey development partner for major brands looking to bring their... More

Microsoft Rebrands WVD as ‘Azure Virtual Desktop’ (ZDNet)

Microsoft is also introducing a new ISV/per-user pricing option and taking the wraps off a bunch of new manageability and security features coming soon. WVD, an Azure-based service... More

The Future of AI in Advertising, Media (IT Pro)

As the dominance of cookies is crushed and fears around privacy and personalisation grow, AI looks set to play a huge role in allowing brands, companies and organisations to compet... More

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