23andMeThe personal genomics company, 23andMe, went public in early 2021 through a merger with a blank-check company that valued it at $3.5 billion. Then its fortunes began to sink. Declining interest in DNA kits (23andMe’s main product) was one of the factors driving it down. So was last year’s news that hackers stole ancestry data […]
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Instead of running the wiring in a home’s breaker box, the BioLite Backup The home backup power solution relies on thin battery panels that can be placed behind appliances to keep them running for days. It’s built around two 1.5 kWh lithium iron phosphate (LiFePO4) batteries, Backup Core and Backup Extend. Like any uninterruptible power
You don’t have to be a Rockefeller to get a great VPN. Private Internet Access has massively reduced its prices with a 2-year plan with an 83% discount thanks to 4 free monthsThis dazzling offer reduces the price to just $2.09 per monthwhich makes Private Internet Access an exceptional offering. But there’s one caveat: it
Amazon Prime Day It’s arguably one of the most confusing shopping holidays out there: It’s not even a “day,” as the event lasts 48 hours; it includes some great deals (Amazon promises “millions of deals”), but the discounts shown are often misleading; and although it’s advertised as a members-only event, some deals are available to
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As part of a new joint pilot programme with a UK startup Of beeAlphabet’s drone company To theand the UK’s National Health Service will soon use drones to transport urgent blood samples between two London hospitals. As part of the six-month pilot programme, drones will deliver urgently needed blood samples for surgical patients (at high
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He’s not the first fictional character to get a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame (Bugs Bunny, Kermit the Frog and Mickey Mouse are just a few who came before him), but Batman is the first. superhero to obtain the honor, with a location that means it will be consecrated alongside Ordinance TV star
It’s official: Amazon’s second Prime Day event of the year is taking place in early October. The two-day shopping event, which Amazon is calling Prime Big Deal Days for the second year in a row, will kick off at 12:01 a.m. PT / 3:01 a.m. ET on Tuesday, Oct. 8, and run through Wednesday, Oct.
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The hearing on the U.S. Coast Guard’s Titan submarine began with a startling revelation. “I told him I’m not getting on,” former OceanGate engineering director Tony Nissen told a panel of Coast Guard investigators, referring to a 2018 conversation in which CEO Stockton Rush allegedly asked Nissen to act as pilot on an upcoming expedition
The Penguin arrives this week on HBO, expanding the gritty criminal world of Matt Reeves. The Batman film into a spin-off series centered on Colin Farrell’s villainous character. Although his rogues gallery moniker remains the same, the Penguin’s real name was changed in the 2022 film to Oswald Cobblepot, his name since his birth in
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman is leaving the internal committee OpenAI created in May to oversee “critical” security decisions related to the company’s projects and operations. In a Blog entry OpenAI announced today that the committee, the Safety and Security Committee, will become an “independent” board oversight group chaired by Carnegie Mellon professor Zico Kolter, Quora
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