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Thousands of fans will pack PNC Arena this weekend for the League Championship Series (LCS) esports tournament. League of Legends teams will battle in Raleigh April 8 and 9 for the LCS trophy and a chance to compete internationally in London. The host, Riot Games, selected Raleigh for the tournament, calling the city an emerging

RESEARCH TRIANGLE PARK – Tech giant Cisco not only quit doing business in Russia after the invasion of Ukraine last year. Now Russian media agency Tass is reporting that the company destroyed more than $20 million of equipment and spare parts that remained in the country. One news site described the move as a “scorched

By Juli Clover, MacRumors With the iPhone 14 models, Apple introduced a Crash Detection feature that is designed to contact emergency services automatically should a collision be detected. Crash Detection has already saved lives, but there have also been a number of complaints about the option accidentally triggering at ski resorts, amusement parks, and in other non-emergency high-activity situations. Apple has

NEW YORK — Twitter has labeled National Public Radio as “state-affiliated media” on the social media site, a move some worried Wednesday could undermine public confidence in the news organization. NPR said it was disturbed to see the description added to all of the tweets that it sends out, with John Lansing, its president and

CARY – iGLASS Networks, a provider of outsource network operations center services, has been sold to Kansas-based 20 South Partners. Financial terms were not disclosed. iGLASS launched in 1997. It is the second network operations firm in the 20 South Partners portfolio, joining ISPN Network Services. All management and staff will be retained in the

By Catherine Thorbecke, CNN Bob Lee, the former chief technology officer of Square who helped launch Cash App, has died after an apparent stabbing attack in San Francisco. Lee’s death was confirmed by Josh Goldbard, the CEO of his current employer, MobileCoin. Lee joined MobileCoin, a cryptocurrency and digital payments startup, in 2021 as its

Editor’s note: Deep Dive – a feature looking in depth at timely issues from tech to jobs is a regular feature on Wednesdays in TechWire. +++ RALEIGH – It was an insightful evening at Blush CoWork in Cary on Tuesday night as innovators from the FemTech industry presented their products and services designed to support women’s health. 

By Juli Clover, MacRumors Apple’s iPhone continues to be the most popular smartphone with U.S. teens by far, and 87 percent of teens surveyed in the first 2023 Piper Sandler teen survey said they own an ‌iPhone‌. 88 percent of teens said that their next smartphone will be an ‌iPhone‌, but ‌iPhone‌ ownership has held steady at that 87

By Jennifer Korn, CNN Anyone using their iPhone to check the weather on Tuesday may have had better luck just looking out the window. Apple’s default Weather app briefly went down for many users on Tuesday morning, showing blank screens with no data. The result: many users felt clueless about what was happening outside. “The

HIGH POINT – Fiber-based internet service Lumos will expand its network to Wilmington and New Hanover County as part of a $56 million expansion effort, the High Point-based company announced Tuesday. Engineering work will begin in mid-2023, the company says. The network plan includes Carolina Beach, Ogden, Myrtle Grove, Castle Hayne and Wrightsboro. In January