Week One Recap: The Trial Of Silk Road's Dread Pirate Roberts

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Week One Recap: The Trial Of Silk Road's Dread Pirate Roberts Ross Ulbricht stands accused of being the Dread Pirate Roberts, the kingpin of a vast online drugs marketplace. The first week of his trial got off to a riveting start. Here are some of the highlights. Read More > SHARE: Silk Road Judge: Tor Browser Is "Mumbo-Jumbo To Most People On The Jury Right Now" The Silk Road trial is a high-tech case of nearly inscrutable levels, and prosecutors are grappling with the burden of having to explain cryptographic technologies to a jury whose demographics lean away from technological sophistication. Read More > SHARE: WATCH VIDEO  Adventures In Online Drug Buying FORBES tested out the web’s most popular destinations for buying illegal drugs online. The verdict: They work. SHARE: We Need A Clinical Data Revolution In Healthcare: A Lesson From South Korea Despite incredible advances in science and technology over the last decade, modern drug development remains a complex and costly process. Only about 7% of early-stage drugs make it to market, with development costs averaging $2.6 billion. Read More > SHARE: Death, Spies, And Terror: Argentine Prosecutor Nisman Found Dead After Accusing President Kirchner Of 'Secret Pact' With Iran Hours before he was set to face Congress to explain why he had filed a criminal complaint against Argentine president Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner and others regarding the bombing of the AMIA Jewish community center in Buenos Aires that left 85 people dead in 1994, Prosecutor Alberto Nisman was found dead inside his locked apartment. Read More > SHARE: Five Things To Know About The Disneyland Measles Outbreak As expected, the number of measles cases linked to the outbreak beginning at Disneyland has continued increasing. Read More > SHARE: WATCH VIDEO  Tracking Your Baby With Bellabeat FORBES sits down with Bellabeat cofounder Urska Srsen to talk about how her startup is creating devices to monitor babies in the womb and women's health. SHARE: Why The 'American Sniper' Box Office Blowout Is Even Bigger Than You Think We’ve got the weekend estimates for the four-day wide release weekend for Clint Eastwood’s 'American Sniper,' but just how big is this debut? Well, quite frankly, it is almost impossible to overstate how massive of a debut this is for the kind of film this is. Read More > SHARE: 'American Sniper' Shoots To Top Of Winter Box Office Record Breakers List Clint Eastwood’s Iraq war drama ‘American Sniper,’ earned an astonishing $90 million on its opening weekend, making it the most successful winter movie release in history. Read More > SHARE: