Elizabeth Holmes. Justin Sullivan/Getty Images Elizabeth Holmes has been denied 3 requests seeking a new trial, including one based on a witness’ visit to her home after she was found guilty. The Theranos founder is due to be sentenced in 10 short days. Holmes faces up to 20 years in prison for each of the…
Fracking In California Under Spotlight As Some Local Municipalities Issue Bans David McNew/Getty Images Oil prices could drop to around $70 a barrel after this winter, according to Oman energy minister Salim al-Aufi. “We don’t believe that the current prices are sustainable comfortably,” the OPEC+ member told Reuters. He added prices would be determined after…
FTX Cryptocurrency exchange CEO Gabe Bankman-Fried at a hearing on Capitol Hill on May 12, 2022. Tom Williams/CQ-Roll Call via Getty Images Binance reached an agreement to purchase Sam Bankman-Fried’s crypto exchange FTX on Tuesday. Contagion fears were worsened by selling from Binance CEO and Bankman-Fried rival Changpeng “CZ” Zhao. Here’s what happened as FTX…
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The Hero 11 Black is the latest top-end model in GoPro’s long line of action cameras, and as of this writing the camera is now down to $350 at GoPro’s online store with a one-year GoPro subscription. This deal technically started last week, but it’s still a new low and $50 off the bundle’s usual…
Two of the largest crypto exchanges have just announced one of the stranger tech mergers in recent memory (and that’s saying something). Binance plans to acquire its rival FTX after a brief but very public dispute. As Bloombergexplains, Binance CEO Changpeng Zhao sold about $529 million in FTX’s native token on November 6th in response…
As expected, Zoom is looking to take on the likes of Microsoft 365 and Google Workspace in more areas than group video calls and chats. At its Zoomtopia conference, the company announced a bunch of features that are coming to its platform, including two key ones for productivity: email and calendars. You can connect third-party…
A year after Amazon launched its redesigned Amazon Photos app for iOS, it’s now giving us on Android the same courtesy. Inside, the app has gotten retooled top to bottom, with improved navigation and updated features being the main highlights in the changelog. While you scroll through your photos, new buttons in the UI allow…
With Awesome Games Done Quick’s next charity speedrun event rapidly gaining on us, organisers have revealed timings for all 140+ speedruns scheduled for the January 2023 show. Next year’s Awesome Games Done Quick runs from 8th-15th January, and will once again be an online-only event as organisers look to move its in-person component away from…
The European Commission has announced that, following its initial investigation into Microsoft’s proposed $69bn acquisition of Activision Blizzard, it will now be opening a more “in-depth” Phase 2 probe to determine the deal’s likely impact on competition. In a statement on its website, the European Commission said it had made the decision after its preliminary…