Elizabeth Holmes was once compared to Steve Jobs, but the disgraced founder of failed blood-testing start-up Theranos once worth billions will begin her prison sentence at the end of April.
A California judge denied Holmes her request to remain free while she appeals her conviction.
Holmes was convicted on four counts of fraud and conspiracy related to Theranos in January 2022.
Twitter owner Elon Musk has been discussing the stresses of buying the social network in a deal worth $43 billion.
At the same time, Musk says he will update the BBC’s “government-funded media” tag after the broadcaster objected to the label.
An Esa spacecraft is due to launch from Earth this week on the hunt for alien life as far afield as the icy moons of Saturn and Jupiter.
But it will take eight years for the European Space Agency probe, called Juice, to reach its mission goal after flying 4.1 billion miles - and when it arrives, the craft will make a series of fly-bys of Jupiter and its moons Callisto, Ganymede and Europa.
Police in New York City are deploying two real-life trundling robocops and a ‘Digidog’ to patrol streets and subways.
It comes after an earlier NYPD scheme with a Boston Dynamics robot dog was scrapped and labelled “racist” over its deployment to neighbourhoods that are home mostly to people of colour.
A team from Australia’s Curtin University have been investigating a nearly complete 95 million-year-old skull belonging to a long-necked dinosaur found in Queensland, to better understand the giant’s anatomy, relationships to other sauropods and feeding habits.
The team says their analysis supports theories suggesting sauropods used Antarctica as a pathway between South America and Australia between 100 and 95 million years ago.
Plus, UV shines light on hidden 1,500-year-old Bible chapter, human brains ‘sharper competing against robots’ and AI’s weird and dangerous fork ideas.
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