Martin Shkreli, the bad boy of the pharmaceuticals industry, is tired of being its whipping boy. He’s fighting back. Shkreli, the former CEO who rocketed to notoriety in 2015 when he hiked the price of a lifesaving drug by more than 5,000 percent, has become the poster child for greed in the industry. That portrait …
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Twitter gives Martin Shkreli a timeout
Twitter suspended Martin Shkreli’s account on Sunday following harassment of a freelance journalist. The pharmaceutical executive began trolling Lauren Duca after she wrote an opinion piece for Teen Vogue in December under the headline Donald Trump is Gaslighting America. Shkreli, a Trump supporter, soon began peppering Duca with messages of faux attraction, including an invitation to be his date at …
Read More »Google helps humans evade CAPTCHA in update
Google is trying to do away with CAPTCHA. Well, not quite. It’s trying to make CAPTCHA an undetectable user experience with a new system called Invisible ReCAPTCHA, which uses algorithms to determine whether you’re human or not, without any interaction required from you at all. This isn’t the tech giant’s first foray into streamlining CAPTCHA, or Completely Automated Public Turing …
Read More »9 Netflix movies you should definitely download
Best. News. Ever! As of yesterday, Netflix‘s mobile apps will let you download content for offline viewing. That’s awesome for anyone who wants to stock up on videos for planes, trains, treadmills and other Wi-Fi-challenged destinations. First things first: Make room for all those downloads. Find out how to free up extra space on your Android phone or tablet. iOS …
Read More »Martin Shkreli fires up Wu
The morning after Donald Trump’s Election 2016 victory, hedge fund founder and former pharmaceuticals CEO Martin Shkreli appears to be making good on a promise to mark the occasion. He’s releasing the Wu-Tang Clan album “Once Upon a Time in Shaolin” — the lone copy of which he purchased for $2 million in 2015. Just hours after Trump won the …
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