Unicorn Graveyard: Tech's Rises & Falls

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  Betamax vs VHS: How the Better Picture Lost 16.09.2026 29นาที

  Betamax had picture quality and an iconic inventor. VHS built the larger ecosystem. Follow recording-time trade-offs, licensing, rentals, network effects and the legal ruling that remade home video.This episode was produced with AI narration and scripting, with human editorial review.This episode includes AI-generated content.
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  Theranos, Part 1: The Voice 12.09.2026 24นาที

  Part one of two. A founder in a black turtleneck promised a full panel of blood tests from a single fingerprick, on a box the size of a desktop printer, in a pharmacy near you. Reed Ashford on why the pitch was genuinely excellent, why the physics of small-volume testing says no, what was actually running in the company's laboratory, and how a board of former secretaries of state with no clinical expertise functioned as diligence that nobody had performed. Plus the regulatory gap the whole company lived inside, and the two junior scientists who worked out the truth from the quality-control bench. Elizabeth Holmes was convicted of defrauding investors and Ramesh Balwani was convicted on all counts; those are court record. Reports that her speaking voice was adopted are flagged as recollection, not a finding of any court. Part two covers the trial. This episode was produced with AI narration and scripting, with human editorial review.