by Christina Larson People in Beijing are always under the watchful eye of Mao—and myriad surveillance cameras. In 1955, science fiction writer Isaac Asimov published a short story about an experiment in “electronic democracy,” in which a single citizen, selected to represent an entire population, responded to questions generated by a computer named Multivac. The machine…
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Fake Nike Air Jordans Smuggled Into New York
WHAT TO KNOW A group that allegedly smuggled more than 300,000 pairs of fake Nike Air Jordan sneakers into New York and New Jersey was broken up Many of the Nike knock-offs mirrored real Air Jordans that currently sell for around $190 a pair Five people were arrested in the tri-state area in connection with…
