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Once the world’s youngest female self-made billionaire, the former head of Theranos is facing fraud charges and possible jail time The rise and fall of the blood testing startup Theranos turned the tech world upside down and captured the attention of millions beyond Silicon Valley, inspiring multiple books, documentaries and a television series. Theranos set …

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As blood testing startup founder’s fraud trial looms, John Carreyrou says hero worship is still a problem in Silicon Valley The unraveling of Theranos began with a 2015 article in the Wall Street Journal that revealed how the revolutionary technology promoted by the blood testing startup wasn’t exactly what it seemed. Over the proceeding months, …

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Power from fusion has proved too hard to generate at scale. Can recent breakthroughs and massive investment change that? On 8 August 2021, a laser-initiated experiment at the United States National Ignition Facility (NIF), based at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in California, made a significant breakthrough in reproducing the power source of the stars, smashing …

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• Elizabeth Holmes plans to accuse Ramesh ‘Sunny’ Balwani • Blood-testing startup allegedly misled investors and patients The disgraced founder of the blood-testing startup Theranos plans to blame emotional and sexual abuse by her former boyfriend, also a senior executive at the company, at her federal fraud trial beginning next week, according to legal papers …

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Japan’s Aramitsu Kitazono was left with cuts and bruises after being hit by the e-Palette vehicle at the athletes’ village Toyota has apologised for the “overconfidence” of a self-driving bus after it ran over a Paralympic judoka in the athletes’ village and said it would temporarily suspend the service. The Japanese athlete, Aramitsu Kitazono, will …

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No apps can summon couriers in minutes, readers and riders tell of more unusual pandemic orders Most online deliveries do not come with a health warning from the delivery driver but David Smith received one from a relieved courier who, on handing over Smith’s buzzing box, suggested the bees inside were “a bit angry”. Rather …

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Benyamin Ahmed’s Weird Whales sell in cryptocurrency and ownership is stored on blockchain A 12-year-old boy had made about £290,000 after creating digital pictures of whales and selling tokens of their ownership which are stored on blockchain. Benyamin Ahmed’s collection of pixelated artworks called Weird Whales went viral during the school holidays. His success may …

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Investigation into US tech firm’s proposed acquisition of British chip designer expected The US multinational technology company Nvidia has said it will answer “any concerns” raised by the European Commission as regulators appeared set to launch an investigation into the firm’s proposed $54bn (£39bn) purchase of the British chip designer Arm. The world’s leading maker …

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As OnlyFans ended the peen panic, Twitter was united by petty grievances. Think of the level of civilisation we have reached Thanks to the continued commitment of 2021 seemingly to give me simultaneous infarctions in every organ, the week opened with the news that Ian “Beefy” Botham is to become the new trade envoy for …

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Uber, Lyft and other companies fighting Massachusetts lawsuit that would grant workers status as employees Felipe Martinez began working full-time as an Uber driver in the Boston, Massachusetts, area in late 2017. He enjoyed the flexibility, being able to work nights while spending days with his children and focusing on his family, but then Uber …

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