Neither ended up coming true, but he ended up investing again in on Holmes and then-COO Sunny Balwani's promise that the Theranos technology was working.
Balwani is facing the same charges but will have a separate trial scheduled to begin in January. It is unknown who the government will call as its final witnesses in the case. Despite a potential list that included names like Henry Kissinger and Rupert Murdoch, so far the highest-profile witness has been former Defense Secretary James Mattis, a Theranos board member and investor, who said he had become " disappointed at the level of transparency " from Holmes.
After a short week in observance of Veterans Day, the court plans to be in session Monday through Friday for the case next week, which means Holmes' defense could begin before Thanksgiving. Musk set the plan to sell his stock Sept. Everyone lies on the internet. Except when they don't: People lie more often when conversations are fleeting, synchronous and distant, which in our modern age involves video chat and phone conversation, according to a new study.
In , a group of communications researchers wanted to know if our increased use of technology also made us tell more lies. The Hancock Study asked participants to record their communication interactions and the number of lies they told per interaction for seven days. The study employed a model that took into account certain features of the technology such as "synchronicity, recordability and copresence.
What researchers learned was that in , people lied most often on the telephone where they communicated synchronously, with the expectation that they would not be recorded, and at a distance from one another. People lied the least in email, where communication was asynchronous and recorded. This week, researcher David Markowitz released the results of an updated study for the age of the iPhone, Snapchat and Zoom.
Using a slightly larger group of participants and more communication tools, Markowitz found that as in the study, synchronous, unrecorded conversations result in more deception.
Social media, texting and face-to-face conversations all showed similar rates of deception, which goes against the largely held theory that everyone lies on the internet. Read more about the study in The Conversation. Affirm has deepened its ties with Amazon in a boost for the "buy now, pay later" company ahead of the holiday season , the company revealed Wednesday as it also announced strong third-quarter earnings.
Affirm is now the exclusive U. Amazon also gets warrants for Affirm's stock. The exclusivity doesn't cover pay-later purchases billed on a credit card; Amazon and Citi have such a deal which predates the Affirm relationship. The deeper connections between the two companies, first announced in August, give Amazon a pay-later partner to roll out across its site. For Affirm, it opens up a massive distribution channel.
Instagram has started testing a new "Take a Break" feature this week, allowing users to notify themselves to take a break after a certain period of time. Users can opt in for in-app break reminders after 10, 20 or 30 minutes. Instagram head Adam Mosseri announced the news on Wednesday, explaining the potential new feature over video.
The video depicts a sample reminder, which instructs users to close Instagram, take a few deep breaths, write down what you're thinking, listen to your favorite song or do something on your to-do list. Mosseri previously referenced the feature when he announced Instagram's pause of its controversial "Instagram Kids" project. He described "Take a Break" as a way "people could put their account on pause and take a moment to consider whether the time they're spending is meaningful. Only a limited number of users can test out the reminders this week, but Instagram hopes to launch the feature fully in December.
Notably, the feature will not be the default on its app, raising questions about whether it would have any significant impact on users. TikTok rolled out videos reminding users to take a break in February , enlisting some of its top creators to produce them and ensuring they pop up right in users' "For You" pages.
The reminders became fodder for other TikTok content as well. It will be interesting to see whether Instagram follows through on this feature, or abandons it after its initial testing phase. Instagram considered removing "like" counts from its posts for a while before ultimately leaving it as an opt-in feature. It was also wishy-washy on its "You're All Caught Up" notification that popped up when you had viewed all of your feed with content from the past two days.
It ended up launching suggested posts users could click on after this notification, somewhat defeating its purpose. It's accessed through the Ethereum blockchain. Winkelmann called the piece the "the first portrait of a human born in the metaverse," Barron's reported. A decade ago, a pitch based around printing a chip that spans an entire silicon wafer would probably have been summarily dismissed by serious financiers.
Technical limitations long made the idea unworkable, and it would have been difficult to build a profitable business around such a strategy. But today, as data center and supercomputer makers try to squeeze more performance out of existing hardware, fresh ideas based on improved technology aren't as quickly dismissed.
The chips include computing cores, memory and other functions, and contain 2. The company packages the chips in its CS-2 servers. CEO Andrew Feldman told Protocol that the company's technology outperforms graphics processors because the entire system was designed specifically for AI, compared to GPUs, which were originally intended for other purposes like gaming. Cerebras' chips and server products are designed to tackle artificial intelligence tasks and are used by supercomputing sites such as Argonne National Laboratory and Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, and cloud computing businesses.
On YouTube, viewers will no longer see how many people disliked a video. YouTube announced on Wednesday via its blog that the platform is rolling out a new feature to make the dislike count private.
The change will take effect gradually starting Wednesday. According to the post, YouTube experimented with removing dislike counts from videos earlier this year.
It found that when the dislike count was removed, viewers "were less likely to target a video's dislike button to drive up the count," the post stated. YouTube wrote that new and smaller creators expressed being unfairly targeted by this type of "dislike attacking behavior. These changes are part of YouTube's broader efforts to promote more "respectful interactions between viewers and creators," the post stated.
The company views the change as an important step towards creating a more inclusive and harassment-free environment for creators. During the COP26 U. That commitment came in the form of a declaration shared by the U. Department for Transport on Wednesday. Film TV Games. Fortnite Game of Thrones Books. Comics Music.
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We also request that gifts of a consumable nature, such as food, flowers, and other perishable items, not be sent to the White House due to the security screening process. While the President and Mrs. The last two months of , apparently, saw some 73, new petitions. So, late yesterday, the White House admitted simultaneous victory and defeat for its "We the People" initiative, announcing that the new signature threshold will be, going forward, a whopping , The window for signature-gathering won't change: To garner a White House response, a petition needs to get that six-digit support within just 30 days.
You could read the changing of the threshold as the White House frames it : "a good problem to have," the result of the fact that the petition site's popularity "exceeded our wildest expectations," an action designed by busy people doing important things "to ensure we're able to continue to give the most popular ideas the time they deserve. But you also don't have to choose, because both things are true. There was the Death Star request.
And the secession movement. And the entreaty to designate and protect the Sasquatch as an indigenous species. And the appeal to nationalize the Twinkie. The "We the People" site has received, the White House says , , petitions over the course of its young existence. And many of those have been, effectively, hoaxes -- elaborate yet low-investment jokes played by citizens rising up, coming together, and exercising their constitutional right to troll.
But the petitions weren't all like that: Though, unsurprisingly, it was the Death Stars and Bigfoots that ended up with the bulk of attention to the site and its service, "We the People" has also fielded an urgently legitimate petition to legally recognize the Westboro Baptist Church as a hate group -- a request that, since its mid-December creation, has received more than , signatures.
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