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Twelve men charged with manslaughter of football fan

BBC News

Twelve men have been charged with the manslaughter of football fan Simon Dobbin. Dobbin was assaulted outside the Railway Tavern in Southend-on-Sea in Essex in March 2015 following a match between Cambridge United and Southend United. The dad from Mildenhall, Suffolk, died in October 2020 after suffering a brain injury as a result of the attack. The Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) said it had now decided to prosecute 12 men in connection with his death and all the defendants will appear at Colchester Magistrates' Court on 31 March. Rebecca Mundy, deputy chief crown prosecutor, said the CPS had worked closely with Essex Police to examine and review material obtained during previous investigations.


Stacking-based deep neural network for player scouting in football 1

arXiv.org Artificial Intelligence

In [8], the authors propose to Datascouting is one of the most known data evaluate individually the players according to their data applications in professional sport, and specifically and then to estimate their integration in a given team football. Its objective is to analyze huge database of with Random Forest algorithm. Even if we also use players in order to detect high potentials that can be supervised machine learning algorithm, our approach is then individually considered by human scouts. In this very different because our automatic labelling process paper, we propose a stacking-based deep learning is based on the evolution of the player in the time and model to detect high potential football players. Applied the algorithms we used are stacked deep neural on open-source database, our model obtains networks which allows accurate identifications of the significantly better results that classical statistical most promising players. In Section II, we describe the methods.


AI imagines what Americans in all 50 states look like using stereotypical European views

Daily Mail - Science & tech

Most Europeans have a unique idea about what Americans look like in each US state, and artificial intelligence has brought these views to life in lifelike images. Mdjourney, a system that creates images based on users' text prompts, created an image for each of the 50 states based on how those across the Atlantic perceive them. According to AI, Europeans think Alabamians typically have missing teeth, all Utahans are Mormons and Virginians are stuck in the Victorian era. While some images are far-fetched, they offer insight into potential biases and stereotypes in AI technology. According to AI, Europeans perceive Alabamians as being very rugged-looking, with blue eyes and a few teeth missing in their mouths, according to BuzzFeed.


Sports Analytics 101 -- Expected Goals (xG)

#artificialintelligence

Originally published on Towards AI the World's Leading AI and Technology News and Media Company. If you are building an AI-related product or service, we invite you to consider becoming an AI sponsor. At Towards AI, we help scale AI and technology startups. Let us help you unleash your technology to the masses. As part of the introduction series on sports analytics for beginners, I am writing a series of articles examining the impact and benefits of machine learning and data analytics.


EA Sports To End FIFA Video-game Partnership After Three Decades

International Business Times

The wildly popular FIFA video-game series will be rebranded EA Sports FC next year, its publisher Electronic Arts said on Tuesday, ending a three-decade relationship with football's governing body. Launched in 1993, a generation of millions of football fans and gamers across the globe grew up playing the game and it became a huge money-spinner. But "months of tense negotiations" between California-based Electronic Arts (EA) and governing body FIFA failed to end in an agreement to extend the partnership, The New York Times reported. FIFA reportedly wanted the $150 million it gets annually from EA to be increased to $250 million or more. The game has more than 150 million player accounts, according to EA, and The New York Times said it had generated more than $20 billion in sales over the past two decades.


Madden NFL 22: What you need to know about pro football's biggest video game

USATODAY - Tech Top Stories

As of Friday, fans of pro football and video games get to indulge in an annual pastime: the release of the latest Madden NFL video game. Madden NFL 22 is available for PlayStation and Xbox video game consoles. It not only gets football fans hyped for the new season, but helps kick off an assortment of major video game launches ahead of the holiday. I've spent about a week playing Madden NFL 22. Here's a look at what else you need to know about this year's Madden release: The future is here:Meet Tesla Bot, Elon Musk's humanoid robot Most notable when you first hit the field is the Momentum Meter, which attempts to imitate the ebb and flow of a Sunday football game. Whenever a big play happens, the meter will shift toward one team or another to provide a unique perk.


10 ways Google can help you prep for football season

USATODAY - Tech Top Stories

It's that time of year when football fans across the country get ready to cheer on their favorite professional and college teams. Aside from keeping tabs on the game from your big screen or mobile phone, you can also rely on Google Assistant to you be in the know this season. Google Assistant is similar to Amazon's Alexa and Apple's Siri and can help you keep track of everything you need to bring to your game day tailgate while staying up-to-date on the latest scores from your favorite teams. To engage with the smart speaker, say, "Hey Google," or "OK, Google," and ask your question. There's no need to repeat the greeting during a conversation because Google Assistant can hold a continuous conversation.


10 ways your Echo can help with football season

USATODAY - Tech Top Stories

Football is back and fans across the country are sporting their favorite player jerseys and cheering on their top teams. There are a number of ways to get ready for kick-off--prepping the delicious tailgate food and upgrading to a big-screen TV to name a few--but did you know that your Amazon Echo can help you do even more to celebrate the return of football season? Whether you have the ever-popular Echo Dot or the screen-enabled Echo Show, there are plenty of ways that the Alexa-enabled speakers can help you out this season. Planning a watch party and need to find out when the game is on? Or maybe you want to check the latest stats on your hometown team?


Manchester City warned against using facial recognition on fans

The Guardian

Manchester City have been cautioned against the introduction of facial recognition technology, which a civil rights group says would risk "normalising a mass surveillance tool". The reigning Premier League champions are considering introducing technology allowing fans to get into the Etihad Stadium more quickly by showing their faces instead of tickets, according to the Sunday Times. If someone is recognised as having bought a ticket, they would be ushered in by a green light, and if not they would be halted with a yellow one. Hannah Couchman, the policy and campaigns officer at Liberty, said: "This is a disturbing move by Manchester City, subjecting football fans to an intrusive scan, much like taking a fingerprint, just so they can go to the Saturday game. "It's alarming that fans will be sharing deeply sensitive personal information with a private company that boasts about collecting and sharing data on each person that walks through the gate, and using this to deny people entry.


World Cup 2018: The faces female fans want you to see

BBC News

Put "female football fan" into a search engine and the image results are a stream of attractive young women in tight shirts and, sometimes, no shirts. Tired of sexualisation and misrepresentation, some fans have decided it's time to level the playing field. "These images represent everything that's great about this game - how many different kinds of women go to matches and support. We need this realness," says Emma Townley, from online community This Fan Girl. She's talking about five images of female England fans taken ahead of this World Cup, which she hopes will start replacing photos of scantily-clad female fans in search engine results.