Start-Up Founder Sentenced to 18 Months in Prison for Fraud

nytimes.com Another start-up founder is going to prison for overstating his company’s performance to investors. Manish Lachwani, who last year pleaded guilty to three counts of…

Margaret Qualley Exits Hulu’s Amanda Knox Limited Series

deadline.com Margaret Qualley has pulled out of playing Amanda Knox in Hulu‘s upcoming limited series for scheduling reasons. Qualley, two-time Emmy nominee for Netflix’s Maid and FX’s…

Humane AI Pin Reviews Pile On a Half-Baked Device

decrypt.co It was in the comparable primordial days of AI hardware when the Humane AI pin was announced, a $700 wearable that was teased on a fashion runway and led a nascent category…

Biotech CEO who relied on multiple aliases sentenced to 7 years in prison for Theranos-like $28 million fraud involving a fake finger-prick Covid test

aol.com The CEO of a California biotech company, Decision Diagnostics, claimed to have a finger-prick test that could detect Covid-19 and used multiple fake identities to pump up…

Will Sam Bankman-Fried Have A Second Act?

dealbreaker.com In late March, Sam Bankman-Fried was sentenced to 25 years in prison for defrauding investors and customers of his cryptocurrency exchange FTX. In addition to the relatively…

On the Difficulty of Research in the Biomedical Sciences and Scientific Medicine

nakedcapitalism.com Yves here. KLG warns that this post wound up not quite where he expected, which suggests he had to refine/revise his impressions based on investigation and reflection. A big…