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It’s not you, it’s the interest rates.

The reasons are probably more nuanced than that, but a number of prominent car tech companies are finding themselves in the unenviable position of being dumped by the bigger companies that they’ve relied on for funding. It’s especially harsh when you consider we’re a few weeks away from



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The rumors were true: a remake of Until Dawn is coming to PlayStation 5 and PC later this year. As revealed during the latest State of Play showcase, the upgraded version of the interactive horror game is being built in Unreal Engine 5 and it will have several new bells and whistles.

You'll be able to experience the action from a third-person perspective for the first time. Ballistic Moon, which



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Biogen is abandoning its lackluster Alzheimer’s disease drug, Aduhelm. The Massachusetts-based company announced Wednesday that it is pulling the medication from the market following poor sales and controversy over its approval by the Food and Drug Administration in 2021. The company says it is only doing so to…

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Comcast is discontinuing its its “Xfinity 10G Network” branding to describe its internet service after a National Advertising Review Board (NARB) panel found that the term could mislead consumers into thinking that Comcast’s cellular and broadband services would offer much faster speeds than current-generation networks. Comcast rivals T-Mobile and Verizon had challenged the branding with the



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Pokémon Go creator Niantic is bringing an AR skateboarding game to the Apple Vision Pro mixed-reality headset. The company teamed up with Reality Crisis, another player in the AR gaming space, to create Rodney Mullen’s SKATRIX. For the uninitiated, Mullen is a professional skateboarder who is credited with creating a number of iconic tricks, including the ollie and the kickflip.

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Jason Mizell aka Jam Master Jay poses for a portrait circa May, 1999 in Los Angeles, California.
Jason Mizell aka Jam Master Jay poses for a portrait circa May, 1999 in Los Angeles, California.
  • The federal trial of two men charged in the killing of Run-DMC DJ Jam Master Jay got underway Monday.
  • Jurors were shown grisly photos from the 2002 New York City crime scene. 
  • The hip-hop legend, given name Jason Mizell, was shot dead in his Queens recording studio. 

People were



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February is here. Let’s watch some movies. Welcome to io9's latest edition of the Nerd’s Watch, where we pare down the enormous lists of new films and television shows arriving on all your favorite streaming services into the sci-fi, fantasy, and horror titles we think you’ll like most. (And sometimes, just the ones…

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23andMe CEO Anne Wojcicki
23andMe CEO Anne Wojcicki.
  • 23andMe stock is down over 95% from its peak, cutting its value from $6 billion to $345 million.
  • The genetic-testing company is facing financial and strategic challenges, and was hacked last year.
  • The startup's backers, including Sequoia Capital, have taken big hits to their investments.

23andMe has gone from a Silicon Valley darling



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The Meta Quest 3 will soon give wearers the ability to easily view spatial videos as well as use new pinching gestures for control, features that are similar to what you’ll find in Apple’s much more expensive Vision Pro headset that launches this week. Both changes are starting to roll out gradually as part of update v62, which should get to most owners of Quest



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Skylight recently released a 27-inch variant of its smart calendar, which looks pretty promising. It’s essentially a huge touchscreen display housed in an aluminum or plastic case that you put on your wall like a framed piece of art. It lets you add, remove, and edit upcoming events and looks great as an organizer…

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