There is no doubt in my mind that former Theranos CEO Elizabeth Holmes will appeal the four charges she was convicted of: conspiracy to defraud investors and wire fraud. She still has the Silicon Valley mindset, after all: reality can be bent to your will. But what have we learned from the Theranos trial? Almost nothing. Holmes was found guilty on four of 11 counts after about 50 hours of deliberation. Those counts could be grouped, roughly, into defrauding patients and defrauding investors. The jury found her not guilty of defrauding patients or conspiracy to defraud patients. The easiest part…
Author: Mike Harrison
All 2021 and 2022 LG smart TVs will be equipped with a health education and telehealth app from the senior-focused health platform Independa, the company announced today. The platform will allow users to set up and have telehealth appointments through their TV. While telehealth visits via apps on smartphones and computers have become normal for many patients during the pandemic, using a TV-sized screen to see a doctor can be helpful for people with eyesight issues, says Kian Saneii, Independa’s founder and CEO. It also makes it easier for doctors to ask people to stand up or show more of…
Elizabeth Holmes deliberately misled investors about the capabilities of the blood testing technology at Theranos and is guilty of three counts of wire fraud, a jury found today. She is also guilty of conspiracy to defraud investors with her co-defendant, Sunny Balwani. She faces up to 20 years in prison for each of the counts. The jury found her not guilty of two counts of defrauding patients and not guilty of conspiracy to defraud patients. The jury did not return a verdict on three more counts of defrauding investors. Holmes was the founder and CEO of Theranos, a company that…
Sleep Number’s 360 smart beds are a regular fixture at CES, and this year is no exception. Today, Sleep Number is announcing the latest upgrades to its 360 smart beds, improving some of their built-in sensors and adding on surrounding tech like lights and mobility accessories that it calls “smart furniture.” The idea, according to Sleep Number, is to create more accessible smart beds so that people can age more comfortably or recover from injuries. “Smart furniture” is a new addition that surrounds the 360 smart bed. While it looks like one of those fancy headboards with built-in shelves, Sleep…
Blood tests on pregnant people that look for rare and devastating developmental conditions in fetuses are often wrong, according to an investigation from The New York Times. The blood testing technology, called noninvasive prenatal testing (NIPT), works very well for more common disorders like Down syndrome. But The New York Times reported that a review of data from multiple studies showed that when NIPT is used to test for uncommon things like Wolf-Hirschhorn syndrome (which is found in one in 20,000 births) or Cri-du-chat syndrome (which is found in one in 15,000 births), positive results are wrong 80 percent of…
(Photo : Queven via Pixabay) In today’s world, most people will experience a car accident at some point in their lives. Few people have not been involved in an automobile collision during their lifetimes. If you find yourself in such a situation, this article will provide you with some basic info on what a car accident lawyer can do and when to consult one. What can a car accident lawyer do? There are different ways in which a car accident lawyer can be of help. They include: Negotiating with the insurance company A lawyer will keep the…
CES has dropped the last day of its 2022 tech conference in Las Vegas, and the show will now end on January 7th, the Consumer Technology Association announced today. The shorter schedule is “an additional safety measure” in the face of a surge of COVID-19 diagnoses. Over the last two weeks, a number of large companies — including BMW, Intel, AMD, GM, Google, T-Mobile, Amazon, Microsoft and the company formerly known as Facebook — have dropped their physical presences at the conference. It’s the largest tech conference in the world, which typically pulls more than 10,000 people in each year.…
RJ Pierce, Tech Times 31 December 2021, 01:12 pm Elon Musk is at it again with some groundbreaking pronouncements, and this time, he claims to know who Satoshi Nakamoto-the universally accepted creator of Bitcoin-really, is. (Photo : Photo by Win McNamee/Getty Images)WASHINGTON, DC – MARCH 09: Elon Musk, founder and chief engineer of SpaceX speaks at the 2020 Satellite Conference and Exhibition March 9, 2020 in Washington, DC. Musk answered a range of questions relating to SpaceX projects during his appearance at the conference. According to a report by the UK Express, the massively popular multi-billionaire claims that Nick Szabo, a…
RJ Pierce, Tech Times 29 December 2021, 05:12 pm ASUS ROG Z690 Hero motherboards are scheduled to be recalled soon due to the discovery of a major design flaw in the memory slots that could also be a potential fire hazard. According to VideoCardz, the aforementioned design flaw involves an incorrectly installed capacitor connected to the memory. As per the report, this capacitor causes a 53 debug code out of the blue that causes the memory sticks to not be detected while installed. A few reports even say that the capacitor can even catch fire in extreme cases. Aside from the…
Adult smokers who say that they don’t plan to quit smoking but who start using e-cigarettes are more likely quit than those who don’t start vaping, according to a new study. People who say they’re not trying to quit often aren’t included in studies of the potential benefits of e-cigarettes for adult smokers, and the new data shows that the group should be considered during that type of analysis. In the new study, published Tuesday in JAMA Network Open, researchers evaluated data from the Population Assessment of Tobacco and Health (PATH) Study, which is run by the National Institutes of…