iPhones will help decide offside violations in English soccer this season

/ The Premier League is abandoning its VAR system in favor of Apple’s smartphone cameras.

Detecting an offside violation can be difficult. Photo by Dan Istitene / Getty Images

The UK’s top soccer league is switching up the tech it uses to detect offside violations on the football pitch. The Premier League has contracted with a company called Genius Sports, which will use dozens of iPhones combined with machine-learning models to help game officials make an offside call.

Offside violations aren’t always clear-cut, especially when

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