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• Here’s How to Make Millions as an Art Forger (Bloomberg)
• Decoding the Enigma of Satoshi Nakamoto and the Birth of Bitcoin (NYT)
• Can Algorithms Form Price-Fixing Cartels? (New Yorker)
• Silicon Valley Is a Big Fat Lie, veering toward fall-of-Rome territory. (GQ) see also VCs Take the Media (The Baffler)
• The Robots Are Winning! (NY Review of Books)
• The Untold Story of Industrial Light & Magic (ILM), a Titan That Forever Changed Film (Wired)
• The US has space experts worried about an extra-terrestrial land grab (Quartz) see also The Democratization of Space: New Actors Need New Rules (Foreign Affairs)
• Why Ken Jennings’s ‘Jeopardy!’ Streak Is Nearly Impossible To Break (FiveThirtyEight)
• Doomsday vault: the seeds that could save a post-apocalyptic world (The Guardian) see also Can civilisation reboot without fossil fuels? (Aeon)
• How Indie Rock Changed the World: The influence of geeks with guitars on culture, from DIY to social media (The Atlantic)

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