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Theranos is shutting down its fraudulent blood testing business

Sep05
by on September 5, 2018 at 6:04 am
Posted In: Around the Web, Insider


Remember Theranos, the high-tech medical startup that falsely claimed to be able to conduct a battery of tests with a single drop of blood? The Wall Street Journal reports that, after years of legal hassles, it’s finally throwing in the towel and closing for good. CEO David Taylor informed shareholders of the move in a letter, in which he described the company’s efforts to try and sell itself over the past four months – but to no avail. Now, it’s in debt to its creditor Fortress Investment Group, which loaned the firm $65 million last year. As part of the…

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This underwater death machine has one mission: Destroy the starfish

Sep05
by on September 5, 2018 at 1:07 am
Posted In: Around the Web


Australia‘s Great Barrier Reef is dying. Decades of human intervention have left the UNESCO World Heritage site reeling from the consequences of industrialization — water pollution and climate change, chief among them. But it’s another threat, this one caused by nature but exacerbated by humans, that could prove most imminent: overfishing. By removing natural predators from the reef, Australia is now experiencing a “bloom” of crown-of-thorns starfish. Without predators, the reef offers an ideal habitat for the gorgeous, and destructive creatures, each of which may reach one meter in size. While a naturally present species, recent years have seen the…

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Google Chrome gets a big redesign and new features for its 10th birthday

Sep04
by on September 4, 2018 at 10:58 pm
Posted In: Apps, Around the Web, Google


Chrome is turning ten, and it’s getting a makeover to celebrate. Google today announced a wide set of changes coming to the world’s most popular browser – some aesthetic, and some functional. Most notably, the app now has a flatter, rounder design more in line with Google’s Material Design principles; these changes will be seen on both mobile and desktop. Website icons are now easier to see when you’ve overloaded a window with tabs, and menus and other design elements have been tweaked and simplified throughout various versions of the app. (Truth be told, we’ve been seeing these changes in…

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