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But as Kim reports, Amazon has much broader ambitions for a line of products that may be branded "Amazon Diagnostics." This includes tests for infections that lead to respiratory and sexually transmitted diseases, as well as home genomic tests similar to those offered by 23andMe and Color Genomics.
Given Amazon's penchant for connecting everything to the internet however, it will be interesting to see whether these "home" medical test results truly remain inside the walls of your house.
Chamath Palihapitiya has eagerly cast himself as the SPAC king, the frontman of the firm that started the blank check boom, Social Capital Hedosophia. But there's another founding partner at the firm, and he's purposefully kept himself in the shadows.
"Part connector, part fixer-for-hire, the 38-year-old Osborne is an unlikely lord of high finance and tech. His career didn't begin as a banking hotshot or a computing whiz, but as a teenage theater producer in London's West End.
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Through means that aren't entirely clear to even some close acquaintances, he has finagled his way into the circuits and pocketbooks of the world's most rich and famous, earning favor by doing favors, and parlaying his impressive black book into a lucrative, and sometimes mysterious, career."
"If Facebook or Twitter and others ultimately become a bias filter for the facts that we take as truth in the world ... I think that's really dangerous and a sort of scary world to live in."
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