LONDON — A British financial trader, who has been described as the ringleader in the manipulation of a key interest rate before and after the global financial crisis, lost his appeal Wednesday to have his conviction quashed. Tom Hayes, 44, who was a former trader at U.S. bank Citigroup and Switzerland’s UBS, became in 2015 … Read more
Several major news agencies have withdrawn an image distributed by Kensington Palace showing Catherine, Princess of Wales, and her children, saying they believe the photo has been manipulated. The photograph is the first officially released image of the princess since she underwent abdominal surgery in January, and comes after weeks of intense public speculation and … Read more
A logo on the Sanofi exhibition space at the Viva Technology conference dedicated to innovation and startups at Porte de Versailles exhibition center in Paris, France June 15, 2022. Benoit Tessier | Reuters French prosecutors have opened a preliminary investigation into multinational pharmaceutical company Sanofi over possible market manipulation. A judicial source confirmed to CNBC … Read more
A version of this post first appeared in TechCrunch’s weekly robotics newsletter, Actuator. Subscribe here. Last week was a busy one for robotics. We had RoboBusiness in the Bay, ROSCon in New Orleans and Amazon’s Delivering the Future event in Seattle. I ended up choosing the latter, as I’d gotten quite a bit out of … Read more
Jaap Arriens | Nurphoto | Getty Pictures Elon Musk mentioned Saturday that Twitter customers will solely be capable to learn a sure variety of posts per day because of “excessive ranges of knowledge scraping” and “system manipulation” on the platform. The Tesla and SpaceX CEO, who’s government chairman and CTO of Twitter, mentioned the boundaries … Read more