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A damning WSJ report suggests major problems at Elizabeth Holmes’s medical startup Theranos.

On Thursday, the Wall Street Journal published a troubling report that questions the accuracy and success of blood tests created by Theranos, a medical technology company helmed by Elizabeth Holmes, who founded the startup in 2003 as a 19-year-old student at Stanford University. According to the WSJ, the company’s technology—which Theranos says can run multiple medical tests using just a few drops of blood, as little as a finger prick—was only being used for 15 of the more than 240 variety of tests Theranos conducts.

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Apple’s ResearchKit program is being used for more medical trials.

Apple’s ResearchKit platform, which lets researchers conduct medical studies via iPhone app, is now being used to take on autism, epilepsy, and melanoma. The new studies will be run by researchers at Duke University, Johns Hopkins, and Oregon Health and Science University.

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Coming off the first Democratic debate, here’s clarification on Senator Bernie Sanders’s ideology, and what it could mean to gig workers.

The meaning of words and phrases change. Dictionaries are updated to add new ones and also to reflect the current usage of old ones—but even with a dictionary, it’s easy to get lost.

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Communicate with ease, tame your schedule, and get things done with these great tools.

You’re running a million miles an hour, trying to hold down a tight schedule full of tight deadlines on a tight ship. From messages to meetings to managing meddlesome minutiae, these 50 apps can help you work wonders with your otherwise limited time.

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While wages stagnate, stock prices rise and the rich get richer.

If you’re lucky enough to be a member of the global 1%, last year was another good year to be alive (every year is pretty great, though). Your wealth bracket increased its share of global riches so that it holds just over half of global wealth, according to a new report from Credit Suisse.

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Looking good and doing good.

When a pipeline spilled thousands of gallons of oil off the coast of Santa Barbara in May, beachgoers reported seeing unusual globs of oil on beaches that weren’t officially closed. And even on a regular day, beaches across the country are often polluted from oils and grease that runs off highways when it rains. Even if beaches aren’t polluted enough to shut down for the day, they may not exactly be clean.

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New AI technology can interpret the content of photos and provide more context than was possible before. But there’s still a long way to go.

Trevor Thomas is a professional hiker. Heading out on some of America’s most famous trails with his dog, Tennille, for treks of up to six months is par for his course, and as he blows through the miles, he regularly updates his many fans and followers with photos and videos of his exploits.

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Donald Thomson’s water bottle solution? Throw them on the roof.

Donald Thomson, a 56-year-old, Canadian-born builder, entrepreneur, and self-taught designer, launched ‘A’Gua-brand water bottles in Costa Rica earlier this year. But he sees no contradiction in his current endeavor: converting reclaimed, custom-designed, PET plastic water bottles into roofing tiles that are filled with an insulating, lightweight mix of aerated concrete and waste paper, which can be tinted to simulate marble, slate, or ceramic tile. (He now also is exploring using corn stover, an agricultural waste, as a filler.)

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The Rotterdam-based architecture firm has turned the roof of a tennis club into spectator seating.

MVRDV, the Rotterdam-based architecture firm known for its bold, futuristic designs including everything from small town community centers to South Korean Skygardens to dazzling skyscrapers that look like Twizzlers, is now jumping into the sporting arena. Its latest design is just as much furniture as it architecture though: a comfy red tennis clubhouse that doubles as a seating area for over 200 spectators.

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Pop Chart’s latest infographic shows off just how weird the Man of Steel’s rogue’s gallery really is. Kuku the Klown, anyone?

Superman predates Batman by almost a year, but chances are, you know Batman better. Don’t believe me? I bet you can name half-a-dozen Batman villains off the top of your head: the Joker, the Penguin, Catwoman, Two-Face, Scarecrow, Poison Ivy, Bane, and so on. But what about Superman’s villains? Unless you’re a big comics fan, Lex Luthor might be the only one you can name.

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