Crypto’s plummet tests the durability of a hype-driven industry
The cratering of terra, which had been the third-largest stablecoin by total market value, points to a wider reckoning for a hype-fueled asset class that...
Why Neuralink, not Twitter, is Elon Musk’s biggest challenge
Elon Musk's private neurotech start-up Neuralink is the moonshot firm that has prompted some of the entrepreneur's biggest boasts -- and might yield some of...
An ex-cop fell for Alice. Then he fell for her $66 million crypto scam.
A former police officer lost $15,000 overnight as part of a large-scale crypto swindle. It underlines the startling increase in these scams — and their...
The future of coronavirus tests takes shape on a Caribbean yacht
Amid huge gaps in coronavirus testing inventory and quality, several renegade companies are looking for a better approach to the current tangled system.
Is artificial intelligence about to transform the mammogram?
An MIT researcher who survived breast cancer has devised a technique that seems to predict, with unprecedented accuracy, whether a healthy person will get breast...
A Utah company says it’s revolutionized truth-telling technology. Experts are highly skeptical.
The CEO of EyeDetect says they've built a better truth-detection mousetrap: He believes eye movements reflect their bearer far better than the much older and...
If the metaverse lets you be whoever you want, will you be you?
Some greeted Facebook's name change to Meta Platforms with justifiable skepticism. But if Facebook — or anyone — could make real the dream of a...