In November, Judge Edward Davila sentenced Theranos co-founder Elizabeth Holmes to 135 months, or just over 11 years, in prison for defrauding investors.
NPR reporter Bobby Allyn points out that he’s issued his full order explaining the decision (PDF), noting that Holmes was sentenced based on only about 10 percent of the money Theranos actually raised.
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This Tiger King-like trailer teases a story about a millionaire dog with Madonna’s old mansion, a personal chef, and maybe a cult.
A shocking, surprising and true story that reads like a fairy tale: Gunther, the German shepherd who inherited $400 million from a mysterious countess.
But here’s a spoiler: Gunther’s Millions is really about a long-running publicity stunt by the owner, Maurizio Mian, with no countess to be found.
The CES hangover is just about cleared, which is leaving room for some big entertainment news. That includes the trailer for the next MCU flick, kicking off Phase 5 of its superhero series, and our first review of HBO’s The Last of Us TV show.
Keep an eye on this page; we’ll post the Ant-Man and The Wasp: Quantumania trailer once it’s available after premiering during the college football National Championship game between TCU and Georgia.
Black Panther: Wakanda Forever marked the end of Phase 4 for Marvel’s exploding cinematic universe of movies and TV shows, and this flick will kick off Phase 5 before Phase 6 starts with a new Fantastic Four flick in 2024.
Update: And here it is, if you’ve missed it somehow.
Cabel Sasser is the co-founder of Panic (maker of the Playdate handheld) and also, apparently, a sucker for trawling Yahoo Japan auctions.
His annual thread of finds kicks off 2023 with some classic equipment perfect for any retro gamers, an uncle who just woke up from a 17-year coma, or any Sega fanboy / senior news editors you happen to know. And if that’s not rare enough, try this Hitachi Car Navi GPS Sega Saturn with Karaoke.
Becca Farsace and The Verge video team will take you through the best tech Las Vegas had to offer over the last week.
Matter took home our Best in Show award because of its potential for connecting the smart home, but it had plenty of competition on the show floor.
And with that, CES 2023 is over.
Now we wait to see all of those screens, chips, sensors, and cars appear in real life. That is, of course, assuming ever actually ship — on the Vergecast we had some doubts about that Sony sedan.
See anything we missed? Let me know in the comments (you can click these posts now, right there on the first line.)
The Lionsgate project has been in development since 2015 and was originally filmed two years ago starring a pre-Tar Cate Blanchett.
Deadline now reports that director Eli Roth, who is also a producer on the film, is “amicably” handing over direction to Miller for a couple of weeks of reshoots in March while Roth works on a new horror flick.
The USDA granted Dalan Animal Health a “conditional license for vaccination of honeybees against American Foulbrood disease caused by Paenibacillus larvae.”
As the NYT explains:
Before you start imagining a tiny syringe being inserted into a bee, the vaccine, which contains dead versions of the bacterium Paenibacillus larvae, comes in the form of food. The vaccine is incorporated into royal jelly, a sugar feed given to queen bees. Once they ingest it, the vaccine is then deposited in their ovaries, giving developing larvae immunity as they hatch.
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Was on a Superior Court Clerk’s Office records request (PDF) for theft charges against this guy who allegedly decided Office Space was a good inspiration for a real crime.
The cops say he edited code on an e-commerce site’s checkout basket to redirect shipping fees on some orders to his personal account. And what did he do with the money?
When asked where the money now is, he stated it was “gone.” He clarified that he had used the money to invest in stock options, particularly GameStop stock options, and reiterated that all the money was now gone.
