It’s a NFC chip; it doesn’t even transmit, it reflects and wouldn’t transmit anything to nearby cell phones, but a properly equipped cell phone could read the NFC code.
Useful for officials keeping track of official balls during world cup games. That’s about it.
Tell me again why reporters are unable to do even the most mundane research?
“Tell me again why reporters are unable to do even the most mundane research?”
Because narrative.
But you knew that.
Because they are not supposed to, and don't want to waste the time, doing research.
They simply type up an article based on the latest talking point handout.
They couldn’t handle STEM, so they went into journalism.
Useful for officials keeping track of official balls during world cup games. That’s about it.
Tell me again why reporters are unable to do even the most mundane research?
Had this been President Obama, you can bet your Bippy they would have done research on the NFC chip faster than you can say Reggie Love.