23andme fined by ico

Regeneron Pharmaceuticals (regeneron. com), a human-genetics and biotech company based in the USA, announced on 19 May that it will purchase troubled US DNA-testing company 23andMe (23andme.com) for $

The dust is finally settling on the cyberattack that downed Marks & Spencer’s online store for more than six weeks this spring. The ransomware attack, carried out by a hacker group calling itself Drag

Privacy pioneer In March, Meredith Whittaker, president of encrypted messaging app Signal, learned about the Trump Administration’s Signal-gate scandal from a group chat. Slack-jawed, she read the Atl

Trend-setting health tech In a stressful period in 2021, Tom Hale was having trouble sleeping. He bought an Oura Ring, the pioneering smart device that tracks stats about sleep and health, and made a

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Driving change MY FIRST WAYMO IS LOCKED IN A STANDOFF with a human rival. I’ve hailed the driverless cab in a tricky triangular parking lot in Austin, and when it pulls in—a hulking white all-electric