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Lab-grown leather; Goal line technology; Bacteria outrage; Marine buoy

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The Premier League Unveiled Hawkeye at the Emirates Stadium

Hawkeye uses seven cameras per goal mouth to track the ball, to see if it's crossed the line. There's no human input at any stage so within a second of the ball going over the line, the referee knows about it. Similar actually to cricket in tennis in as much as the tracking is real time. But whereas in cricket in tennis whilst we have the information immediately, we don't present it to television. The people were very direct on the criteria that they had for this. It would have been technically a lot easier in a scenario where an operator could confirm that it was a goal. So that was from an engineering standpoint, one of the things that's, you know,

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