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• GameStop FOMO inspires a new wave of crypto pump-and-dumps

  16 May 2021 12:00

  Enlarge (credit: peng song / Getty) After the California Gold Rush, in 1870, two Kentucky swindlers whipped up a scheme to prey on thirsty financiers’ FOMO. They invented a diamond field out West. Investors sunk millions in today’s money into the scheme. All of it, of course...

  Source: ArsTechnica

• Google I/O 2021 preview: Google resurrects Wear OS and...

  Enlarge / Sadly the Shoreline Amphitheatre will be empty this year. Google I/O is online-only. (credit: picture alliance / Getty Images) Google I/O 2021 is...

  ArsTechnica - 16 May 2021 14:30

• ISPs claim broadband prices aren’t too high—Biden admin...

  Enlarge (credit: Getty Images | Guirong Hao) Biden administration officials are not convinced by the broadband industry's claims that Internet prices aren't...

  ArsTechnica - 14 May 2021 19:38

• Despite big Marvel and Star Wars shows, Disney+ falls...

  Enlarge / Meta-sitcom/adventure series WandaVision was one of Disney+'s most successful recent shows. (credit: YouTube/Disney+) Analysts expected Disney+ to...

  ArsTechnica - 14 May 2021 19:47

• Researchers force two mice to hang out and induce FOMO...

  Enlarge (credit: David Aubrey) Since its advent...

  ArsTechnica - 14 May 2021 21:24

• Colonial Pipeline paid a $5 million ransom—and kept a...

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  ArsTechnica - 15 May 2021 11:00

• Daniel Kahneman: ‘Clearly AI is going to win. How people...

  The Nobel-winning psychologist on applying his...

  The Guardian - U.K. Culture - 16 May 2021 13:00

• The chip shortage is driving up tech prices–starting...

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  ArsTechnica - 15 May 2021 12:15

• Pipeline attacker Darkside suddenly goes dark—here’s...

  Enlarge Darkside—the ransomware group that...

  ArsTechnica - 14 May 2021 22:25