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☆ How casino scams actually work, according to a former Las Vegas cheat
  + stars: | 2024-12-21 | by ( Teresa Zhang | Cynthia Liu | Ju Shardlow | ) www.businessinsider.com   time to read: +1 min
Richard Marcus was a casino cheat in Las Vegas for 25 years. Marcus discusses the influence of the Italian Mafia in Las Vegas and his early years of being recruited while working as a dealer at the Four Queens Casino. He covers casino cheating teams and how they used the false shuffle in baccarat and the Savannah move. He also discusses casino surveillance, security, and the role of the police and the FBI, and he suggests ways to catch cheaters. He is the author of "American Roulette," "The World's Greatest Gambling Scams," and "The Great Casino Heist."
Persons: Richard Marcus, Marcus, cheaters Organizations: MGM, Mafia, Four Queens, FBI Locations: Las Vegas, Savannah
☆ The US once had a 'mini-default' on some of its debts because of a technical glitch. The minor mistake cost billions.
  + stars: | 2023-05-08 | by ( Natalie Musumeci | ) www.businessinsider.com   time to read: +4 min
The incident caused Treasury yields to spike up by 60 basis points or 0.6 percent and cost billions long-term. The US is now flirting with a full default as Republicans in Congress demand spending cuts in exchange for paying America's debt. "Payment delays were chiefly due to back-office technical and organizational problems," according to a report by the Congressional Research Service, a nonpartisan public policy research institute of Congress. Congress has raised the debt ceiling multiple times under previous administrations without negotiations — including under President Donald Trump. President Joe Biden has refused to negotiate over the debt ceiling, while Republicans are also holding firm on their demands.
☆ It might be possible to fight a traffic ticket with an AI 'robot lawyer' secretly feeding you lines to your AirPods, but it could go off the rails
  + stars: | 2023-01-10 | by ( Sindhu Sundar | ) www.businessinsider.com   time to read: +4 min
DoNotPay wants to put AI to the courtroom test, and plans to use it to advise defendants in traffic cases. Judges could alert bar associations to a rogue "robot lawyer" on the loose, legal experts said. But DoNotPay's founder Joshua Browder plans to put his app's AI "robot lawyer" to just such a test in an upcoming traffic court case in February, according to a report in the New Scientist that heralds the first AI-powered defense in court. "The traffic court judge might have questions about who's really doing the talking here." As Browder courted headlines with the bold move to take DoNotPay's "robot lawyer" to court, he also tweeted an incredible offer on Sunday.
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