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How Theranos’ faulty blood tests got to market – and what that shows about gaps in FDA regulation

One of the most high-profile trials of the year is underway to decide whether Theranos founder Elizabeth Holmes defrauded patients and investors. Her blood testing startup, once valued at almost US$10 billion, was based on…

How do you feel? Your ‘sense of touch’ is several different senses rolled into one

We have more than five senses. What you might think of as your sense of “touch” is actually a range of different sensory pathways that allow you to distinguish various types of mechanical forces, to…

Fed asks watchdog to review controversial trading

The Federal Reserve announced on October 4 that it had asked its inspector-general to review certain controversial equities transactions by senior Fed officials. The statement comes a week after two regional Fed presidents stepped down…

U.S., drilling company officials grilled on oil spill response By Reuters

© Reuters. FILE PHOTO: A worker is reflected in the water of an estuary after a major oil spill off the coast of California came ashore in Huntington Beach, California, U.S., October 4, 2021. REUTERS/Mike…

What’s in the Pandora Papers? And why does South Dakota feature so heavily?

A trove of confidential documents outlining how global elites squirrel away their wealth to avoid tax has been laid bare in the “Pandora Papers.” Consisting of around 12 million documents, the data was obtained by…

What caused the unprecedented Facebook outage? The few clues point to a problem from within

Suddenly and inexplicably, Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp, Messenger and Oculus services were gone. And it was no local disturbance. In a blog post, Downdetector.com, a major monitoring service for online outages, called it the largest global…

Oil holds near 3-year highs after OPEC+ keep tight control of taps By Reuters

Is the resource curse hard-baked into African economies? China’s approach hints that it may not be

Countries with abundant natural resources – gold, diamonds, crude oil– often fail to transform that advantage into favourable development outcomes. This is known as the natural resource curse. Countries like Nigeria, Angola and the Democratic…

Russia is building its own kind of sovereign internet — with help from Apple and Google

On September 17, the first day of Russia’s parliamentary elections, Apple and Google agreed to demands from the Russian government to remove a strategic voting app developed by opposition leader Alexei Navalny from the iOS…

Central bank profits under pressure

Profits aren’t the main objectives of a central bank, but a dependence on government to recapitalise the bank can pose a risk to a central bank’s independence. In turn, central bank independence exists in part…

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How Theranos’ faulty blood tests got to market – and what that shows about gaps in FDA regulation

How do you feel? Your ‘sense of touch’ is several different senses rolled into one

Fed asks watchdog to review controversial trading

U.S., drilling company officials grilled on oil spill response By Reuters

What’s in the Pandora Papers? And why does South Dakota feature so heavily?

What caused the unprecedented Facebook outage? The few clues point to a problem from within

Oil holds near 3-year highs after OPEC+ keep tight control of taps By Reuters

Is the resource curse hard-baked into African economies? China’s approach hints that it may not be

Russia is building its own kind of sovereign internet — with help from Apple and Google

Central bank profits under pressure

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