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Hot Startup Theranos Has Struggled with Its Blood-Test Technology
An investigative report by the Wall Street Journal questioning Theranos’s technology.
Antonio Regalado, senior editor, biomedicine

Four Reasons Drugs Are Expensive, of Which Two Are False
Forbes explores why drugs are so expensive.
—Antonio Regalado

Alzheimer’s Research Effort Is Ensnared in Legal Dispute
What happens when one university lifts a research team from another.
—Antonio Regalado

Raiders of the Lost Web
Coming to grips with how much stuff vanishes from the Web.
Brian Bergstein, executive editor

The Soul of the Human Machine
A commonsense way of thinking about the future of AI.
—Brian Bergstein

If You’re Not Paranoid, You’re Crazy
The cover story in this month’s Atlantic gets all twitchy about the extent to which we let ourselves be tracked and quantified nowadays.
Will Knight, senior editor, AI

Doppelgänger
An amusing and oddly revealing meeting between Apple cofounder Steve (“Woz”) Wozniak and Seth Rogen, who plays him in a new film.
—Will Knight

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