Theranos founder Elizabeth Holmes’ brother Christian, whom she brought in as a senior manager at her blood-testing startup, in turn hired a crew of his college friends, one of those
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Vaccine mix-ups are rare and there are systems in place to keep it that way
An Indiana couple says they took their family to get their annual flu shot at the local Walgreens, but all of them, including their 4- and 5-year-old, were given a Covid-19
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Apple employee who led #AppleToo organizing effort says she was fired
An Apple employee who led organizing efforts against harassment and discrimination within the company said she has been fired. Janneke Parrish, a program manager at Apple and one of the
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Elizabeth Holmes trial: Walgreens paid $100 million to Theranos, invested $40 million more: ‘I didn’t want to believe that the things I believed weren’t true’
Drugstore giant Walgreens paid Palo Alto blood-testing startup Theranos $100 million, and invested $40 million more in the failed company, a former Walgreens executive testified at Theranos founder Elizabeth Holmes’
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Facebook to expand harassment policy to cover public figures
Facebook will expand its policies on harassment to remove more harmful content, the company said Wednesday in its latest change following congressional testimony from a whistleblower who faulted the social
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This is how Disneyland uses big data to power the new high-tech Genie app
A high-tech computer algorithm powering the new Disney Genie app coming to Disneyland will make millions of big data calculations to ensure you ride all your favorite attractions, never go
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Orlando begins planning for air taxis, flying cars with NASA
Orlando is preparing for when flying cars are an option for those who want to soar over congested highways or between nearby cities. And they may arrive far sooner than
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Nobel in economics to researchers from Stanford, UC Berkeley
A U.S.-based economist won the Nobel prize for economics Monday for pioneering research that showed an increase in minimum wage does not lead to less hiring and immigrants do not
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Tesla moving headquarters from Palo Alto to Texas
Electric car maker Tesla will move its headquarters out of Palo Alto and out of California, CEO Elon Musk said Thursday. “We’re moving our headquarters to Austin, Texas,“ Musk said,
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Google prohibits ads that promote or make money from climate change denial
Google is cracking down on digital ads that promote the idea that climate change is a hoax or make money from that kind of content, hoping to limit revenue for
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