But she crossed into fraud when she lied about the accuracy, types and number of tests Theranos’s machines could do to raise funding and secure business deals. “That’s a crime on Main Street and it’s a crime in Silicon Valley,” Robert Leach, an assistant U.S. attorney, said in opening statements at the trial’s start. The…
Most U.S. doctors have no way to determine which variant of the coronavirus a patient is carrying, a distinction that could mean the difference between life and death. High-risk patients carrying the Delta variant could benefit greatly from two particular monoclonal antibody treatments shown to reduce hospitalization and death. But those medications would most likely…
Tech Nation’s host, Moira Gunn, has a master’s degree in computer science and a doctor of philosophy in mechanical engineering, but she was dazzled. “How old are you, Elizabeth?” she asked. “I’m 21,” Ms. Holmes said. Her age was brought up not to knock down her claims but to underline how impressive they were. “I’m…
Hoyoung Kim’s tasting menu at Jua often begins with an inky dark column about three inches tall. The bottom third is wrapped in puffed seaweed that, in its specific degree of crispness, recalls a Pringles chip. Rising above that is caviar piled in a tall black beehive, like Marge Simpson’s hair in the Halloween episode…
We adjust. We make last-minute plans. We move on. My husband Tony and I spent New Year’s Day in New Orleans; work aside, we hadn’t traveled beyond New York in nearly two years, and the idea of discovering a different city — one where it was warm enough to eat and drink outside; one that…
*** In the last decade, the women’s fitness industry has started to change, slowly but steadily. As a culture, we still aren’t fully comfortable with women choosing to increase rather than decrease their size. Women’s bodybuilding remains a kind of sideshow sport, due in part to a fundamental lack of understanding of “Why?” Why would…
The fine Georgia company Savannah Bee has finally embraced hot honey, making theirs a well-spiced finishing drizzle for fried chicken and pizza. Mellow wildflower honey is infused with Scotch bonnet and habanero chiles for a glow of lingering but serious heat. It would not be a mistake in a bacon glaze or over dark chocolate…
The newly discovered millipede Eumillepes Persephone actually has more than 1,000 legs. But a mille crèpes cake? Not so many layers. The cake is the signature of Lady M, a confectioner with boutiques in New York and other cities in the United States and China; this year they’re making one covered and layered with red…
A new double-sided mixing spoon expands the definition of all-purpose by having a handle that widens into a convenient tasting spoon. Made from a solid piece of sustainable teak, it’s one of a new wardrobe of tools sold by Sur La Table: a cook’s spoon, a larger shallow spoon and a strainer spoon, each $19.…
With a supply of frozen Chinese dumplings on hand you’re armed for last-minute hors d’oeuvres with a drink, appetizers for dinner and fortification for a big bowl of soup to satisfy a craving. Fly by Jing now offers two kinds of half-moon dumplings, made in California, that can be steamed or pan-fried straight from the…