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A Computer Goes Dark Web Shopping

The dark web is the vast proportion of the World Wide Web inaccessible to search engines. To explore it, artists Domagoj Smoljo and Carmen Weisskopf set up a software bot, gave it some bitcoins, and instructed it to go shopping on an online marketplace. So what did it buy?

(Photo: Binary code superimposed on printed circuit board. Credit: EyeWire, Inc)

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