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Theranos was worth $10 billion ten years ago. Wire fraud indicted her five years ago. Holmes began her 11-year-and-3-month sentence today. A defendant is usually convicted and imprisoned soon after indictment. Holmes’ legal team has played every card to delay her fall, which was once hailed as the next Steve …

“Black Mirror” season six premiered Wednesday on Netflix with a disturbing trailer. The streamer debuts the series on June 15. The trailer begins with a glimpse of the first episode, which, like all “Black Mirror” episodes, is terrifying. Episode one, “Joan is Awful,” features “Streamberry,” a Netflix clone that plays …

Uber spinoff Serve Robotics is expanding its cooperation with Uber Eats. The Nvidia-backed business will deploy up to 2,000 of its cute tiny bots via Uber in different U.S. regions. The partnership will extend through early 2026. This expansion reinforces Serve’s ambition to mass commercialize robotics for autonomous delivery and …

A cybersecurity group claims that a popular Android screen recording software with tens of thousands of downloads on Google’s app store began spying on its users, capturing microphone recordings and other phone data. ESET observed that the Android app “iRecorder — Screen Recorder” released the malicious code as an app …

Everybody has. Shopping online and desperate for a promo code to save money. I was there. Enter Checkmate. The startup wants to end promo/discount/coupon code hunting. For that, it raised $15 million in Series A funding. This raise had some interesting features. Checkmate recently raised $5 million. Raising capital soon …

Ford and Tesla have agreed to give Ford EV owners access to over 12,000 superchargers in the U.S. and Canada. This agreement goes beyond access to Tesla superchargers via adapter. Ford’s 2025 EVs will have Tesla’s NACS charge port. Ford’s second-generation EV lineup includes an electric truck and a three-row …

Before today’s expansion to 11 more global markets, OpenAI’s ChatGPT app was successful in the U.S. and iOS. According to data.ai, the app has reached half a million downloads in its first six days. Only the Trump-backed Twitter clone Truth Social’s February 2022 launch outperformed it. As demand for AI …

Microsoft wants companies to build AI-powered “copilots” using Azure tools and OpenAI machine learning models. At its annual Build conference, Microsoft launched Azure AI Studio, a new capability within the Azure OpenAI Service that lets customers combine a model like OpenAI’s ChatGPT or GPT-4 with their own data—text or images—to …

Netflix’s password sharing crackdown is now rolling out to U.S. and other global subscribers after a delay. After seeing cancellations in markets where it had already introduced “paid sharing,” the streamer delayed the start date to the summer. Under the new rules, U.S. subscribers must either kick people off their …

AllWinner and RockChip, two Chinese companies, power several Amazon-sold Android TV boxes. Android-powered TV set-top boxes are cheap and customizable, combining multiple streaming services into one device. They have thousands of five-star reviews on Amazon. Security researchers say the models are preloaded with malware that can launch coordinated cyberattacks. Daniel …