Elizabeth Holmes of Theranos Gets 11 Years in Prison
The former Theranos CEO’s fall is a cautionary tale for eccentric founders and the investors who blindly throw money at their inventions.
The former Theranos CEO’s fall is a cautionary tale for eccentric founders and the investors who blindly throw money at their inventions.
The moniker, which honors a former agency administrator accused of enforcing anti-LGBTQ policies, has long been controversial.
The company faces scrutiny after botching sales for the artist’s Eras Tour. But people have complained about its grip on the ticketing industry for years.
Right now, you’ll find discounts on Windows laptops and hundreds of video games on the Microsoft Store.
Researchers discuss how mimicking sleep patterns of the human brain in artificial neural networks may help mitigate the threat of catastrophic forgetting in the latter, boosting their utility across a spectrum of research interests.
Inspired by the biomechanics of the manta ray, researchers have developed an energy-efficient soft robot that can swim more than four times faster than previous swimming soft robots. The robots are called ‘butterfly bots,’ because their swimming motion resembles the way a person’s arms move when they are swimming the butterfly stroke.
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By Boris Chen, Kelli Griggs, Amir Ziai, Yuchen Xie, Becky Tucker, Vi Iyengar, Ritwik Kumar Special thanks to Anna Pulido, Luca Aldag, Shaun Wright and Sarah Soquel Morhaim Creating Media with Machine Learning episode 1 Introduction At Netflix, part of what we do is build tools to help our creatives make exciting videos to share with the world. …
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