The medical startup CEO is charged with six counts of fraud and faces up to 20 years in prison The first phase of the trial of Theranos founder Elizabeth Holmes will start on Tuesday, with jury selection scheduled in a San Jose, California, courthouse. Holmes is charged with six counts of fraud relating to her …
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Want an original artwork in your home but don’t know where to start? We’ve got you and your empty feature wall covered You’ve been locked down and staring at the walls for months. It’s time for a change of scene. Related: From the Pilbara to Australia’s classrooms: meet the Indigenous kids teaching the nation Continue …
A survey has found only a fraction of 16- to 24-year-olds think phone calls are remotely important – so they’ve put their phones on vibrate Name: Generation mute. Age: 16-24. Continue reading… A survey has found only a fraction of 16- to 24-year-olds think phone calls are remotely important – so they’ve put their phones …
The end of phone calls: why young people have silenced their ringtones Read More »
Jess Impiazzi stars as a TV show android who has a different husband each day but gets hacked in this scattershot drama This is an inane hodgepodge of sci-fi, political thriller and perhaps some kind of ill-considered satire – of reality TV, venal politicians? It’s hard to divine the target when the attack is so …
Override review – TV robot goes rogue in Stepford Wives meets Truman Show sci-fi Read More »
Country will be first to adopt cryptocurrency as legal tender next month – but economists are sounding warnings over risks Litha María de Los Angeles slaps two cheese-filled pupusas – the El Salvadoran cornmeal flatbread – on the griddle. With a camera click on the QR code, she receives her payment: four hundred-thousandths of a …
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The company’s collapse has changed the startup environment, but some say the industry still hasn’t faced a ‘true reckoning’ A charismatic young leader, billions of dollars in valuations and a technology that promised to change the world but failed to deliver: the meteoric rise and fantastic fall of the medical tech startup Theranos has been …
‘Selling a promise’: what Silicon Valley learned from the fall of Theranos Read More »
Guardian Australia picture editor Carly Earl explains the dos and don’ts of taking pictures of the moon When a full moon rises, many people will pull out their mobile phones to try and take an Instagram-worthy picture, but unfortunately it is really challenging to get a great photograph of. Two reasons: it is very far …
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Technology could help power a clean energy transition if it can overcome hurdles of cost, design and opposition from fishing In the stormy waters of the North Sea, 15 miles off the coast of Aberdeenshire, in Scotland, five floating offshore wind turbines stretch 574 feet (175 metres) above the water. The world’s first floating windfarm, …
Floating wind turbines could open up vast ocean tracts for renewable power Read More »
He’s the Silicon Valley Übermensch, the maverick boss of Tesla and SpaceX who wants us to colonise Mars and who can wipe out billions of dollars with a single tweet. So what’s not to love? It’s interesting whenever Elon Musk’s name comes up and people begin discussing his accomplishments, such as the reinvention of money, …
‘The smartest person in any room anywhere’: in defence of Elon Musk, by Douglas Coupland Read More »
Trillions of metallic nodules on the sea floor could help stop global heating, but mining them may damage ocean ecology In a display cabinet in the recently opened Our Broken Planet exhibition in London’s Natural History Museum, curators have placed a small nugget of dark material covered with faint indentations. The blackened lump could easily …
Is deep-sea mining a cure for the climate crisis or a curse? Read More »
