Theranos Inc. was taken legal action against by an equity capital financier who declares Chief Executive Officer Elizabeth Holmes lied about its blood lab innovation where a pinprick of blood might be checked for numerous illness. The claim, pointing out …
The idea of clean meat enjoys wide acceptance in Asia, a study finds, and Silicon Valley is well-placed to take advantage Do people want to eat lab-grown meat? A new study, for which I was a peer-reviewer, is the first …
Record-breaking US wildfires are fueling a cottage industry of boutique services and many are happy to pay the price With record-breaking wildfires carving up the American west this summer, firefighters have become the rarest of civil servants: the kind almost …
Former national security adviser and U.S. Ambassador Susan Rice now has a new role on Netflix’s board of directors, appearing to follow her former boss who is in reported “advanced negotiations” to create a series of shows with the streaming …
Barack Obama with Mark Zuckerberg at Stanford University, California, in 2016. Photograph: Bloomberg/Bloomberg via Getty Images The impact of Facebooks dominance means that publications are constantly scrambling to keep up with the platforms changing strategy. The editor-in-chief of Wired, Nick …
Composite: Guardian Design For Marx and Engels, however, this disruption is to be celebrated. It acts as a catalyst for the final push humanity needs to do away with our remaining prejudices that underpin the great divide between those who …
Over and over in the last 20 years we’ve watched low-cost or free internet communications platforms spring from the good intentions or social curiosity of tech folk. We’ve watched as these platforms expanded in power and significance, selling their influence …
Sandy Parakilas says numerous companies deployed these techniques likely affecting hundreds of millions of users and that Facebook looked the other way Hundreds of millions of Facebook users are likely to have had their private information harvested by companies that …
The Cambridge Analytica revelations may be the final nudge we need to turn away from the social network. And its only the tip of the iceberg when it comes to big tech harvesting private information Sorry to break it to …
Hugh Hefner at the Playboy club, London, in 1969. Photograph: AP That powerlessness of others seems to be desired and relished in these cases. Its time to talk about the fact that many men seem erotically excited by their ability …
