On Monday afternoon, company founder Elizabeth Holmes will share much-awaited data on the “precision and accuracy” of its tests.
Theranos is facing private litigation, federal investigations, and voided tests, and its business partners have fled. Its CEO, Elizabeth Holmes, is barred from running a lab for at least two years. A Hollywood drama is already underway to memorialize its fall from grace. If that isn’t rock bottom for a biotech company, then what is?
Engaging presentations stay on message and keep the audience rapt. Here’s how to cut to the chase and deliver a great one on the fly.
Whether delivering a keynote or taking investors through a pitch deck, presenters are often prescribed a specific amount of time to speak. But those who frequently occupy the podium know that this can change at a moment’s notice.
The newest XPrize looks for ways to turn carbon emissions into something useful, because it doesn’t look like we’re going to stop them any time soon.
What can you do with CO2? Other than bubble soda drinks and use it to help pump even more oil out of ground, today the answer is not very much.
The Jodie Foster-directed thriller starring George Clooney and Julia Roberts will be available on iTunes starting August 16.
In the film Money Monster, directed by Jodie Foster, a TV financial guru more concerned with production value than accuracy (George Clooney, channeling Mad Money‘s Jim Kramer) is taken hostage live on air by a desperate man (up-and-coming Irish actor Jack O’Connell) who blames Clooney’s Lee Gates for his financial ruin. Meanwhile, Gates’s producer (Julia Roberts) struggles to hold everything together and keep everyone alive from the control room.
Moving to a new place is tough, but a few strategies can help anyone feel more at home.
Lots of people move in the summer, many for new jobs. Moving can be incredibly disorienting on a personal level. Figuring out the politics of a new office is likewise difficult, and it’s not necessarily something humans, who used to stay with our tribes for life, are good at doing. However, there are ways to start to feel at home, says Melody Warnick, author of the new book, This is Where You Belong: The Art and Science of Loving the Place You Live. After half a dozen moves in a few years, Warnick set out to figure out how to make her current home of Blacksburg, Va., truly feel like home. She reports that “A lot of the things that work to make people feel at home in their community work for a workplace, which is in essence its own kind of community.” Here’s how to feel like you belong, fast.
The female players needed new suits that would help them perform at their best in Rio. So they went to Lululemon’s high-tech innovation lab.
When you’re a professional beach volleyball player, you spend extended periods of time in the blazing heat with video cameras pointed at you—all while wearing not much more than your underwear.
An analysis of four prominent maps, including the one Google, Apple, and Bing use—but shouldn’t.
In November 2014, the Russian invasion of the Ukrainian peninsula, Crimea, became a virtual battlefield on Google maps. Initially Google Maps displayed Crimea as a disputed area with a dotted border. After pressure from the Russian government, Google was forced to changed it, so people in Russia now see it as Russian territory on Google Maps. Outside Russia it is still marked as a disputed area.
A growing movement of activists and entrepreneurs is putting the spotlight on creeps and trying to make Internet dating a more human affair.
At first glance, Nathan seemed damn near perfect. At least, as far as one can tell from Tinder: He was a coffee-loving “urban adventurer” from the Midwest and an entrepreneur who walked dogs on the side. Oh, and get this: a self-described feminist. Finally, a guy that gets it. So when Nathan (not his real name) matched with Alexandra Tweten, a 28-year-old woman living in Los Angeles, she was eager to start chatting. The similarities just kept piling up. Like her, he loved beer, tattoos, and pizza. In his free time, he could be found digging through all the right vinyl genres: indie rock, shoegaze, electronic, and new age. Jackpot.
The new venture called Galvani Bioelectronics will develop implants to treat disorders including arthritis, asthma, and diabetes.
Google’s life sciences unit Verily is partnering up with British pharmaceutical giant GlaxoSmithKline for a spinout venture focused on bioelectronic devices. Bioelectronic medicine is a new scientific discipline that seeks to treat a number of chronic diseases including diabetes, asthma, arthritis, and inflammatory bowel disease by using miniature devices implanted in the body that are able to modify the electrical signals of nerves in the body.
When Jeanna Barrett ditched her life in San Francisco to work from Belize, she initially felt anxious that she wasn’t working enough.
A few months ago, I packed up my life in San Francisco and moved to Belize to be an expat entrepreneur. Much of my new lifestyle includes what I expected it to—a slower pace, more time to enjoy hobbies, a deeper tan, and a greater sense of community (since I’m living on a small Caribbean island) than the one I got used to in Silicon Valley.
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