Enlarge / PURDUE PHARMA, STAMFORD, Conn. – 2019/09/12: Members of P.A.I.N. (Prescription Addiction Intervention Now) and Truth Pharm staged a protest outside Purdue Pharma headquarters over the recent, controversial opioid settlement. (credit: Getty | Erik McGregor) The Department of Justice is fighting to strip the billionaire Sackler family of the sweeping legal immunity granted as part […]
Enlarge (credit: Getty Images | Cavan Images) Locast was ordered in order to shut down its online TV service forever in a permanent injunction issued yesterday by a federal judge. The order came two weeks after the judge gave major broadcast networks a big victory in their copyright case against Locast, a nonprofit organization that […]
Enlarge / Elizabeth Holmes, founder and former CEO of blood-testing and life sciences company Theranos, leaves the courthouse with her husband Billy Evans after the first day of her fraud trial in San Jose, California, on September 8, 2021. (credit: Nick Otto / AFP) At Theranos, lab techs would regularly omit two “outlier” data points […]
Enlarge (credit: Getty Images | imaginima) A federal judge yesterday declared a mistrial in the case against Backpage’s founders, ruling that US prosecutors unfairly tainted the jury by focusing too heavily on statements of child sex trafficking in a trial that involved zero charges of child sex trafficking. A new trial will be held. “‘The […]
Enlarge / Theranos founder Elizabeth Holmes collects her belongings after going through security at the Robert F. Peckham Federal Building with her defense team on August 31, 2021, in San Jose, California. (credit: Ethan Swope | Getty Images) Around the time that Theranos was losing nearly $2 million per day, investors in the blood-testing startup […]
Enlarge / Widespread EV charging stations will be critical for New York to feasibly phase-out new fossil fuel vehicles by its 2035 deadline. (credit: Drew Angerer/Getty Images) New York will ban the sale of fossil fuel vehicles starting in 2035 and require all new cars to produce zero emissions. The new law, signed by Democratic […]
Enlarge / President Joe Biden signs an executive order as (L-R) Secretary of Transportation Pete Buttigieg, Chairperson of the Federal Trade Commission Lina Khan, Secretary of Health and Human Services Xavier Becerra, Secretary of Commerce Gina Raimondo, Attorney General Merrick Garland, National Economic Council Director Brian Deese, and acting Chairwoman of the Federal Communications Commission […]
Enlarge (credit: Getty Images | niknikon) The cable lobby is trying to stop a possible ban on exclusive wiring deals between Internet providers and landlords, claiming that exclusive arrangements are “pro-competitive” even though they make it harder for new ISPs to provide service in multi-unit apartment and condo buildings. The Federal Communications Commission last week […]
Enlarge / Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg. (credit: Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images ) Facebook had a problem on its hands. People were posting things to their accounts that would get caught in the company’s automated moderation system or taken down by its human moderators. The problem wasn’t that the moderators, human or otherwise, were wrong to take […]
Enlarge (credit: Getty Images | Yuichiro Chino) President Joe Biden will reportedly nominate Georgetown law professor and privacy researcher Alvaro Bedoya to the Federal Trade Commission. Bedoya is the founding director of Georgetown Law’s Center on Privacy & Technology, where he has focused heavily on facial recognition and other forms of surveillance. Bedoya co-authored a […]