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Mia Sato

Mia Sato

Features Writer, The Verge

Features Writer, The Verge

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    A black market for dinner reservations.

    Ever struggle to get a table at buzzy New York restaurants? Blame the scalpers.

    Reservation resellers scour platforms like Resy and OpenTable and resell their spots to the rich and the desperate. It’s apparently a booming industry: a sophomore at Brown says he made $70,000 last year selling reservations.

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    How can we use AI systems to our benefit?

    Join The Verge at the Chicago Humanities Festival this weekend for a series of panels focused on AI. I’ll be moderating a session on interesting applications of artificial intelligence, with artist X. A. Li and Google software engineer Zaria Howard. Hope to see you there!

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