Tag Archives: Fails

Just this morning, I was sitting in my car waiting for Alternate Side of the Street parking to end (a dance that many car-owning New Yorkers go through) and texted my partner to come take his turn. As normal, I used the Messages app on my Pixel 6 phone to contact him and waited for the usual reply (“On my way!” or “Be there in a few!”), but after about four minutes or so, I realized that I hadn’t had a response. When I checked the app, I saw that the text hadn’t been sent —… Source link

After four full days of deliberations in the fraud case against Elizabeth Holmes, no verdict was reached by the time jurors were excused on Thursday afternoon. Deliberations in the case, which includes more than 900 exhibits and testimony from 32 witnesses, including Holmes herself, resumed Monday following a three-day weekend due to a court holiday Friday. Deliberations are scheduled to resume at the federal courthouse in San Jose on Tuesday, starting at 8:30 a.m. Pacific Time. Holmes, 37,… Source link

Welcome back to This Week in Apps, the weekly TechCrunch series that recaps the latest in mobile OS news, mobile applications and the overall app economy. The app industry continues to grow, with a record 218 billion downloads and $143 billion in global consumer spend in 2020. Consumers last year also spent 3.5 trillion minutes using apps on Android devices alone. And in the U.S., app usage surged ahead of the time spent watching live TV. Currently, the average American watches 3.7… Source link

Walmart (WMT), the world’s largest retailer, reported better-than-expected second-quarter revenue and sales results, driven by store traffic and stimulus check spending that bolstered its footprint in grocery sales in the face of surging COVID-19 infections nationwide. Here are the results versus the estimates, according to Bloomberg: Adjusted EPS: $1.78 v. $1.57 estimate Revenue: $141 billion v. $136.88 billion Walmart U.S. comp-store sales (excluding gas): 5.2% v. 3.12% estimate Walmart U.S…. Source link

SAN JOSE, CALIFORNIA – MAY 4: Theranos founder Elizabeth Holmes leaves the Robert F. Peckham Federal Building with her defense team in downtown San Jose, Calif., on Tuesday, May 4, 2021. (Photo by Nhat V. Meyer/MediaNews Group/Mercury News via Getty Images) A federal judge on Wednesday denied a request from former Theranos CEO Elizabeth Holmes to keep customer complaints, test results, and a regulatory report out of her upcoming criminal fraud trial connected to her failed blood-testing… Source link

Bitcoin (BTC) moved incrementally last week, opening and closing near the same price of $35,700. Technical indicators and the price action are providing mixed signs. However, the wave count is leaning bearish. Bitcoin consolidates Bitcoin experienced some volatility last week, moving from a low of $34,153 to a high of $39,476. However, both the opening and close prices were near $35,700, creating a doji candle in the weekly time frame. Technical indicators in the weekly time frame are bearish…. Source link

The most decorated beach volleyball player of all time will not be part of this summer’s Tokyo Olympics. An upset loss at a tournament in the Czech Republic on Wednesday doomed Kerri Walsh Jennings’ bid to reach her sixth Olympics at age 42. Walsh Jennings and partner Brooke Sweat needed to finish third or better at the J&T Banka Ostrava Beach Open to keep hope alive of qualifying for Tokyo. They instead failed to even make it into the main draw, falling to unheralded Raisa Schoon and… Source link

Elon Musk said that the satellite, dubbed Doge-1, would be the first-ever crypto in space and the ‘first meme in space’. Photo: Hannibal Hanschke/Reuters A tweet from Elon Musk saying that his SpaceX company would accept dogecoin (DOGE-USD) to fund a lunar mission next year failed to spur the price of the cryptocurrency on Monday. Dogecoin, which had been rallying last week as internet users tried to push the value of the coin to $1 (£0.70), was lower on the day, down 1.1% to $0.53. The Tesla… Source link

DK Metcalf didn’t embarrass himself in his professional track debut. The Seattle Seahawks wide receiver showed on Sunday that he doesn’t have world-class speed but he’s also more than merely football fast. In his first track meet since he began training to try to make next month’s U.S. Olympic Trials, Metcalf failed to advance out of his semifinal heat at the Golden Games and Distance Open in Walnut, Calif. Metcalf’s time of 10.37 seconds was very respectable given his size and limited… Source link

Dive Brief: Alphabet, the parent company of Google, “does not provide a safe environment for those who face harassment in the workplace,” a group of more than 1,700 employees said in an April 9 public letter to Google CEO Sundar Pichai. The letter claims the existence of a “long pattern where Alphabet protects the harasser instead of protecting the person harmed by the harassment,” citing instances in which alleged harassers received “exit packages” upon resigning… Source link