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  1. PhotoElizabeth Holmes arriving to trial in San Jose, Calif., on Wednesday.
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    The Trial of Theranos’s Elizabeth Holmes Opens

    A jury will decide whether Ms. Holmes, who founded Theranos and hawked a mission of revolutionizing health care, lied to investors about her company’s technology.

    By Erin Griffith

  2. PhotoA fitness tracker from Whoop uses a battery that is both smaller and more powerful than other kinds.
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    Your Batteries Are Due for Disruption

    This week, a more efficient type of battery arrives in a wristband fitness tracker. It could soon reach smart glasses, cars and even aircraft.

    By Cade Metz

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      The Shift

      How a Viral Video Bent Reality

      Twenty years after 9/11, “Loose Change,” a landmark film for conspiracy theorists, still casts a shadow over our information landscape.

      By Kevin Roose

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  1. Next Food frontier: Fish Made From Plants, or in a Lab

    Sophisticated, plant-based alternatives that mimic seafood are cropping up at restaurants and grocery stores around the world. And “cultivated” seafood, grown in labs from real cells, is on the horizon.

    By Mike Ives

  2. Could Robots From Boston Dynamics Beat Me in a Fight?

    A parkour showcase of the agile humanoids is both wondrous and unsettling.

    By Brian Ng

  3. If You Never Met Your Co-Workers in Person, Did You Even Work There?

    As the pandemic drags on, more people are beginning and leaving new jobs without once seeing their colleagues face-to-face, leading to an easy-come, easy-go attitude toward workplaces.

    By Kellen Browning and Erin Griffith

  4. Biden’s Electric Car Plans Hinge on Having Enough Chargers

    The United States has about 100,000 public chargers, far fewer than Europe and China. It needs 10 times as many, auto experts say, to complete the switch from combustion engine vehicles.

    By Niraj Chokshi, Matthew Goldstein and Erin Woo

  5. In Silicon Valley, Criminal Prosecutors See No Evil

    The Elizabeth Holmes fraud trial is set to be a major spectacle, but tech executives generally get a pass when it comes to wrongdoing.

    By David Streitfeld

  6. California Bill Could Alter Amazon Labor Practices

    The bill would rein in production quotas at warehouses that critics say are excessive and force workers to forgo bathroom breaks.

    By Noam Scheiber

  7. The Strange Tale of the Freedom Phone, a Smartphone for Conservatives

    A 22-year-old Bitcoin millionaire wants Republicans to ditch their iPhones for a low-end handset that he hopes to turn into a political tool.

    By Jack Nicas

  8. Why You Might Not Be Returning to the Office Until Next Year

    After the Delta variant disrupted plans to reopen after Labor Day, many businesses pushed their targets further out or left them open-ended.

    By Kellen Browning, Lauren Hirsch and Coral Murphy Marcos

  9. Facebook Apologizes After A.I. Puts ‘Primates’ Label on Video of Black Men

    Facebook called it “an unacceptable error.” The company has struggled with other issues related to race.

    By Ryan Mac

  10. These two rumors are going viral ahead of California’s recall election.

    Here are two that are circulating widely online, how they spread and why, state and local officials said, they are wrong.

    By Davey Alba