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Nuro pivots to license self-driving tech to carmakers, mobility companies

After multiple rounds of layoffs in 2022 and 2023, Nuro is pivoting its business strategy to focus more on the startup’s core autonomous driving technology instead of owning and operating a fleet of low-speed, on-road delivery bots. The company said on Wednesday it would start licensing its autonomous vehicle technology to automakers and mobility providers, … Read more

Atomico backs Tem to help businesses buy renewable energy directly from sources

A U.K. startup wants to do for utilities what neobanks have been doing for the financial sector for more than a decade: disrupt an age-old industry using technology, streamline it and cut out the middlemen. London-based Tem has built a marketplace and platform to connect businesses directly to renewable energy sources, and it is working … Read more

4 climbers found dead on Mont Blanc after victims’ phone connection with rescuers reportedly cuts out

Four climbers from Italy and South Korea were found dead on the Alps’ highest peak of Mont Blanc on Tuesday after they had been missing for three days in bad weather, the local French prefecture said. The mountaineers had “died of exhaustion,” the Haute-Savoie prefecture told AFP, adding that rescuers who finally reached the site … Read more

Genetic Testing Company Must Issue Refunds After Security Breach Disaster

The Federal Trade Commission is forcing the California-based genetic testing company 1Health.io to pay out almost $50,000 in refunds to 2,432 customers. The company left customer data in an unsecured public cloud and wasn’t diligent about its third-party contractors destroying genetic material after they were done with it. 1Health.io is a company formally known as … Read more

How Beetlejuice Beetlejuice Found Its Own Version of the ‘Day-O’ Scene

If you’ve seen Beetlejuice Beetlejuice—and a lot of people have by now—you know that a rendition of Harry Belafonte’s “Banana Boat Song (Day-O),” a centerpiece of the 1988 film, does appear. But the main musical number this time around is set to a very different retro ditty: “MacArthur Park,” written by Jimmy Webb and performed … Read more