Soccer

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This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. A wave of drugs dreamed up by AI is on its way Alex Zhavoronkov has been messing around with artificial intelligence for more than a decade. In 2016, the programmer and physicist was using AI to rank people by looks and sort through pictures of cats. Now he says his company, Insilico Medicine, has created the first “true AI drug” that’s advanced to a test of whether…

Working with player-tracking data from 7,176 corners taken in the Premier League during 2020 and 2021, the researchers began by representing the arrangement of players as a graph, with the players’ position, movement, height, and weight encoded as nodes on the graph, and relationships between players as the lines between them. Then they used an approach called geometric deep learning, which takes advantage of the symmetry of a soccer field to shrink down the amount of processing the neural network needed to do. (This…

The main benefit is that the AI assistant reduces the workload of the coaches, says Ondřej Hubáček, an analyst at the sports data firm Ematiq who specializes in predictive models, and who did not work on the project. “An AI system can go through the data quickly and point out errors a team is making—I think that’s the added value you can get from AI assistants,” he says.  To assess TacticAI’s suggestions, GoogleDeepMind presented them to five football experts: three data scientists, one video analyst, and one coaching…

If you happen to find yourself at a loose end this weekend, it might not be a bad idea to fire up the Apple TV app and check out some Major League Soccer action. All 14 of this weekend's games will be available to watch for free in English and Spanish, so you won't need an MLS Season Pass subscription.Apple Vision Pro users will be able to check out MLS games on a virtual screen that appears to be up to 100 feet wide. The Apple TV app is also available on smart TVs, set-top boxes, game consoles and of course on Apple's…

If you purchase an independently reviewed product or service through a link on our website, Rolling Stone may receive an affiliate commission. Quick Answer: The only way to watch the USWNT vs. Brazil Gold Cup final in English is with a free trial to Paramount+. For Spanish commentary, the best way to watch is with a free trial to fubo Latino. The inaugural Concacaf Women’s Gold Cup is down to two just teams — the U.S. Women’s National Team and Brazil — who will face off for the final today in San Diego.…

If you purchase an independently reviewed product or service through a link on our website, Rolling Stone may receive an affiliate commission. Quick Answer: The only place to watch every Concacaf W Gold Cup game in the U.S. is Paramount+. Get a free trial here. The Concacaf W Gold Cup semifinals are here, boasting a huge matchup between Canada and USWNT and another match between Brazil and Mexico. The winners of these matches will move on to the Concacaf W Gold Cup final on Sunday. Although USWNT is still a…

If you purchase an independently reviewed product or service through a link on our website, Rolling Stone may receive an affiliate commission. Quick Answer: ESPN+ is the only way to watch Copa del Rey matches in the U.S. The Copa del Rey — officially the Campeonato de España–Copa de Su Majestad el Rey — is nearing its finale. We’re now in the second leg of the semifinals with Real Sociedad, Mallorca, Athletic Club, and Atletico Madrid remaining in the competition. The quarterfinal saw La Liga No. 2…

Goals by Lizbeth Ovalle and Mayra Pelayo lifted Mexico to a stunning 2-0 win over the U.S. women’s national team Monday in the final group-play game of the CONCACAF W Gold Cup in front of a crowd of 11,612 at Dignity Health Sports Park.The win was just the second for Mexico against the U.S. in 43 games, the first coming nearly 14 years ago in Cancun. And the result was well deserved, with Ovalle putting Mexico ahead to stay in the 38th minute and Pelayo doubling the advantage midway through the second-half stoppage…

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