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World Service,4 mins

A Computer Goes Dark Web Shopping

World Update

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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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