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In 2014, the Wall Street Journal reporter John Carreyrou began investigating the biotech startup Theranos. Its founder, Elizabeth Holmes, claimed the company had revolutionary technology that could run sophisticated medical tests on patients with just one drop of blood. The more Carreyrou probed, the more he grew skeptical of Holmes’ claims. Eventually, he wrote a series of damning stories that revealed Holmes to be a fraud. Four years later, he published “Bad Blood: Secrets and Lies in a… Source link

Zoom on iPad. David Phelan Zoom has access to a private iPad camera API, a new report claims, which allows the app to use the camera during iPad Split View multitasking. MORE FROM FORBESImportant New iPhone Feature Is A Blockbuster Success, Report SaysBy David Phelan Intriguingly, it seems to mean that only Zoom has access to this feature. Not Google Meet, not Microsoft Teams. In fact, the only other app that can access it is one of Apple’s: FaceTime. Until things change,… Source link

Some bright spark at US telco group Verizon has decided all its media products should be aligned with the iconic Yahoo brand. Verizon isn’t so excited about the move that it has issued a formal press release about it, however, preferring instead to grant an exclusive interview to Axios. “Yahoo is the future of our consumer facing brand,” said Joanna Lambert, Head of Consumer at Verizon Media. “Over time, we will be moving non-Yahoo brands and centralizing them around Yahoo.” Why… Source link

Apple just gave users a brilliant security reason to choose its own ecosystem over its rival Google. Apple just gave users a brilliant security reason to choose its own ecosystem over its rival Google. SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images Apple has been making a number of brilliant security and privacy moves over the last few weeks. The iPhone maker’s soon-to-launch iOS 14.5 update includes a way to open your phone using your Apple Watch while… Source link

SAN ANTONIO, TEXAS – DECEMBER 19: In this handout image provided by Matchroom, Canelo Alvarez punches Callum Smith during their super middleweight title bout at the Alamodome on December 19, 2020 in San Antonio, Texas. (Photo by Ed Mulholland/Matchroom via Getty Images) Canelo Alvarez was the shorter man, but far from the smaller man Saturday in his super middleweight title unification bout against Callum Smith at the Alamodome. Alvarez showed why he’s the best fighter in the world in… Source link

Microsoft’s Edge has just announced a brilliant new feature that beats Google Chrome. Microsoft’s Edge has just announced a brilliant new feature that beats Google Chrome. SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images Microsoft’s Edge browser has been releasing new features like crazy as it tries to beat market leader Google Chrome. Now, Microsoft has just announced a brilliant new feature that beats Google Chrome—Vertical Tabs, which moves the tab bar… Source link