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Holmes is on trial for allegedly defrauding investors, doctors and patients while at the helm of blood-testing startup The alleged Theranos fraudster Elizabeth Holmes is pregnant, according to a new court filing, potentially delaying her trial by several weeks. Continue reading… Holmes is on trial for allegedly defrauding investors, doctors and patients while at the …

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Artists have been dismayed to find their work ending up in the ‘control’ of others When the virtual auction bell rang at Christie’s on Thursday, Mike Winkelmann, a digital artist better known as Beeple, made history: he had sold a “non-fungible token” representing his piece Everydays: The First 5,000 Days, for $69.4m. But while the …

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Sadly, it has nothing to do with fungus When is an album not an album? Why, when it’s a “non-fungible token”, a new form of digital swag, related to cryptocurrency, being sold by artists and musicians such as Kings of Leon and Grimes. They’re called NFTs for short, but why? Perhaps disappointingly, “fungible” does not …

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Streaming service tests feature that asks viewers if they share household with subscriber Netflix has begun testing a feature that asks viewers whether they share a household with a subscriber, in a move that could lead to crackdown on the widespread practice of sharing passwords among friends and family. Some Netflix users are reported to …

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A suicide and a strange bitcoin bequest have opened a window on to the new frontier of extremist online media On 8 December last year, a Frenchman called Laurent Bachelier gave away a total of 28.5 bitcoins – worth $556,000 – to 22 people. On the same day, he killed himself. In suicide notes written …

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Great screen, performance and battery let down by lack of long zoom camera and only two years of software support Chinese smartphone brand Oppo is looking to cement itself as Samsung’s big challenger – filling the vacuum left by Huawei – but as nice as the Find X3 Pro is to look at, it is …

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Wombo AI can animate any face to sing songs in a way that is unbelievable enough to help the fight against deepfakes, say some experts If you’ve ever wanted to know what it might be like to see Kim Jong-un let loose at karaoke, your wish has been granted, thanks to an app that lets …

Move over, Deep Nostalgia, this AI app can make Kim Jong-un sing I Will Survive Read More »

Naomi Shimada hosts The Beauty Fix, featuring guests including Queer Eye’s Tan France. Plus: cautionary tales, and diverse stories from the Arab world The Beauty FixNaomi Shimada, a plus-size model pushing the often-rigid boundaries of the fashion industry, is the host of this new podcast. Her interviewees include Tan France, Queer Eye’s confident fashion expert …

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In a letter to mark 32 years of the internet, its founder says getting 2.2 billion fully online must be a priority Too many young people around the world are excluded from accessing the internet, and getting them online should be a priority for the post-Covid era, Tim Berners-Lee has said. In a letter published …

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Subhakar Khadka says video of San Francisco incident reveals abuse that often goes unacknowledged An Uber driver in San Francisco who was assaulted by an unmasked passenger has spoken out about the incident, saying that he was attacked after asking the woman to get out of the vehicle and taunted because of his race and …

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