After the scandal, the book, the podcasts and the documentary, the Theranos debacle is finally going to court — in 2020. U.S. District Court Judge Edward Davila set the start date of co-founder Elizabeth Holmes’ criminal trial for August 4th of next year, with jury […]
Month: June 2019
Tanzania: tasse su assorbenti ed extension, quando il fisco è contro le donne povere
Africa. Presentando le tasse tasse il ministro tanzaniano Mpango è stato sarcastico ma l'opposizione popolare lo incalza: non si tratta di vezzi … by Livio Acerbo #greengroundit
Google finance head joins Postmates board ahead of anticipated IPO
Google’s vice president of finance, has joined Postmates’ board of directors, the latest sign that the on-demand food delivery startup is prepping to take the company public. Postmates announced Friday that Kristin Reinke, vice president of Finance at Google, will join the San Francisco startup […]
Here’s The Kamala Harris/Joe Biden Moment That You’ll Probably Be Hearing About Today
Here’s The Kamala Harris/Joe Biden Moment That You’ll Probably Be Hearing About Today Over two nights and 20 candidates, not a whole lot has particularly stood out during the first Democratic presidential primary debate. But just past the hour mark on Thursday night, Kamala Harris […]
Gadget Lab Podcast: Rebalancing Our Relationship With Tech
This week on the Gadget Lab podcast, a conversation with Aza Raskin, cofounder of the Center for Humane Technology at Stanford University, about the “asymmetric power relationships” between the people who use tech and the companies who control it. In the news, Jony Ive, the […]
Grubhub has bought thousands of domain names to compete against its own customers
Online food delivery company Grubhub has purchased thousands of domain names that resemble those of businesses that are either already on its platform or are trying to be according to a new report from New Food Economy. The company owns over 23,000 of these look-alike […]
Scala, Meyer nuovo sovrintendente. Pereira «prorogato» fino al 2021
È Dominique Meyer il nuovo sovrintendente della Scala che prende il posto di Alexander Pereira, alla guida del teatro dal settembre 2014. Meyer arriverà come nuovo sovrintendente «da metà 2020» e Alexander Pereira rimarrà fino alla fine del mandato del sindaco Sala, a giugno del […]
Star Tracks: Celebs on Vacation
The couple arrived in the South of France for Nick's older brother and … France, Joe Jonas and Sophie Turner have been enjoying a romantic visit to Paris. …. took a nap in her arms while they eplored the Amalfi Coast in Italy by boat. […]
Theranos founder Elizabeth Holmes to stand trial in 2020
Elizabeth Holmes, the founder of the now-defunct biotech unicorn Theranos, will face trial in federal court next summer with penalties of up to 20 years in prison and millions of dollars in fines. Jury selection will begin July 28, 2020, according to U.S. District Judge […]
Hundreds of gigabytes of emails from Fortune 100 firms exposed online
Leaving sensitive information publicly accessible on the web is a recipe for disaster and according to new report from cybersecurity firm UpGuard, that is exactly what the data management company Attunity did for Ford, Toronto-Dominion Bank and its other Fortune 100 clients. Researchers at UpGuard […]