AI, Digital Heist, Blockchain, Journalism, Humans vs. Horses - Five Things - Issue #246

Since eSports is Entertainment, will we soon see AI playing agains AI as a spectator sport?

Carbanak’s suspected ringleader is under arrest, but $1.2 billion remains missing, and his malware attacks live on.

These days it’s hard to avoid pronouncements about how cryptocurrencies and blockchain technology could change everything (or at least, create massive wealth). 

Interesting thoughts, as always, when Danah Boyd writes something.

1,000 people race a bunch of horses 21 miles across mid-Wales, but why?

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