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A Founder of the Crypto Hedge Fund Three Arrows Capital Is Arrested

Sophie Caldwell

Su Zhu, a founder of the cryptocurrency fund Three Arrows Capital, was arrested on Friday in Singapore while trying to leave the country, the liquidators of the company said.Mr. Zhu,…

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Threads Becomes Most Rapidly Downloaded App as Twitter Threatens Meta

Sophie Caldwell

Two hours after pressing the launch button on Wednesday on Threads, Instagram’s new app for real-time, public conversations, Mark Zuckerberg posted that more than two million people had downloaded his…

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The Gamble: Can Genetically Modified Mosquitoes End Disease?

Sophie Caldwell

On a muggy evening in July on the island of Príncipe, part of a volcanic archipelago 200 miles off the West African mainland, 11,000 mosquitoes dusted in fluorescent green powder…

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Threads Review: How Meta’s New App Stacks Up Against Twitter

Sophie Caldwell

When we — Brian X. Chen and Mike Isaac, both longtime tech journalists — got an assignment from our editor last week to review Threads, the new social network from…

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Quebec Lures $5 Billion Battery Factory for Electric Cars

Sophie Caldwell

Northvolt, a Swedish maker of batteries for electric cars, said on Thursday that it would build a factory near Montreal after the Canadian government matched financial incentives that would have…

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How to Direct A.I. Chatbots to Make Them More Useful

Sophie Caldwell

Anyone seduced by A.I.-powered chatbots like ChatGPT and Bard — wow, they can write essays and recipes! — eventually runs into what are known as hallucinations, the tendency for artificial…