$50 strawberries? Find out why the Internet loves them 🍓

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When you first hear about a strawberry that costs $50 for eight, you’re incredulous. Then you see the rhapsodic reaction to the berries on Instagram (and maybe you spend more than a month trying to score some, but they’re always sold out). So you ask Joe Berkowitz to find out what’s so special about the Oishii Omakase berry, and he comes back with a remarkable feature story about the vertical farming industry, Japanese fruit culture, Tesla-style marketing strategy, and a piece of fruit that lives up to the hype. Read on for a sweet treat that will change the way you think about those flavorless red orbs in your fridge—and a whole lot more.
—David Lidsky
 
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5 traits that will instantly point to someone with bad leadership skills

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How to change someone’s perception of you

Don’t write off a relationship just because it got off to a bad start.

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In this popular Stanford class, students build tech for the military

As the Pentagon looks to Silicon Valley to help solve the U.S.’s biggest defense challenges, the Hacking for Defense class aims to mint a new wave of defense tech startups.

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AI is hijacking art history

AI re-creations don’t actually teach us anything we didn’t know about artists and their methods. But they are good PR for AI.

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NEWS
Squid Game rug pull: What you need to know
One of the hottest supposed cryptocurrencies in the last week was a meme coin known as SQUID, based on the popular Netflix series Squid Game.
It soared to an all-time high of $2,856 per coin—and then, in the last 24 hours, SQUID crashed and its creators vanished.
It appears to have been what’s known as a “rug pull” in cryptocurrency circles. According to CoinMarketCap, “A rug pull is a type of scam where developers abandon a project and take their investors’ money.”
According to Vice, the SQUID developers claimed on Telegram that they were being hacked. Either way, it’s yet another cautionary tale for investors in meme coins that seem to pop up over night.
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