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The time has come to say goodbye to Dark Sky. Nearly two years after Apple purchased the much-loved weather app , and more than a year after announcing its impending shutdown, Dark Sky is about to stop functioning. Since September, an in-app notification has warned iOS users the software would no longer work come January 1st, 2023. In September, Apple also removed Dark Sky from the App Store ( following an earlier delisting from the Play Store ). If you’re looking for an alternative, it’s worth revisiting Apple’s own Weather app before turning to the App Store. Since iOS 14 , the company has gradually integrated Dark Sky’s technology into its native offering. For instance, the Weather app now includes next-hour precipitation alerts, which is a feature that was directly inspired by Dark Sky. That said, if you’re set on trying a third-party alternative, a few that are worth checking out include AccuWeather and Carrot Weather. from Engadget is a web magazine with obsessive daily cove

The Biogen headquarters in Cambridge, Mass. AP Photo/Steven Senne A Congressional investigation into Biogen's controversial Alzheimer's drug Aduhlem was just released. The 45-page report details an improper relationship between the company and the FDA. Here are three of the most surprising takeaways.  Aduhelm, the first Alzheimer's drug to be approved by the Food and Drug Administration in 18 years, has already faced its share of controversy. On Thursday an 18-month congressional investigation into the drug's review process and launch plans was released. Among other revelations, the investigation revealed inappropriate collaboration between the company developing the drug and the FDA, a high price tag despite knowing it would make the drug inaccessible to patients, and knowledge of a strain on the country's Medicare budget. Despite mixed data on whether the drug actually worked in patients and guidance from experts that recommended against approval, the

NurPhoto/Getty Images FTX customers are selling their bankruptcy claims at steep discounts, according to reports.  Customers holding a total of $1 billion in credit claims expressed interest in selling through bankruptcy claims buyer Cherokee Acquisition.  Cherokee's online marketplace pays 8 to 12 cents on every dollar of FTX deposit claims. FTX customers whose funds are stuck on the embattled crypto exchange are selling their credit claims at steep discounts amid an uncertain and potentially lengthy bankruptcy process.  Customers holding roughly $1 billion in credit claims have expressed interest in selling their claims through Cherokee Acquisition, an investment banking firm and claims buyer, according to the Wall Street Journal. Elsewhere, bankruptcy claims trading platform Xclaim has listed nearly $92 million in FTX user claims after pivoting its business to focus on crypto-related claims. With FTX's liabilities topping its assets by billions of dollars, many

You can access and play a variety of Snapchat Games with other users. NurPhoto / Getty Images Snapchat includes a library of multiplayer games within its Chat pages. To start a game, tap the Rocket icon while you're in a chat with a friend or group.  You can continue chatting even while you are in a Snapchat game with your friend. While you probably already use the Snapchat app for text chats as well as voice and video calls, you can also use it for gaming.  Here's everything you need to know about the "hidden" Snapchat Games feature. Snapchat has a library of built-in games Snapchat Games are designed as another way to keep you engaged with friends. They are generally short and simple multiplayer games designed for two or more players.  You can browse and launch Snapchat games from within the Snapchat app, and the games are an extension of the Chat page, so you can easily launch a game while having a conversation with someone. While these games are relat

Keeping its tradition of making several announcements before CES , LG has teased its 2023 soundbar lineup ahead of the big show. The company says the SC9 and SE6 models will be on display in Vegas, both equipped with Dolby Atmos and DTS:X for immersive sound. Details are scarce for now on the specifics, but LG did elaborate on some of the key features both soundbars will offer.  First, the company says the SC9 and SE6 will have Wow Orchestra, a tool that "utilizes every one of the two products’ audio channels to create an expanded soundstage with improved height, depth and power." That somewhat vague description is all we have to go on until we hear these in action, but LG did explain that the feature will arrive after launch via software update. The two soundbars will also use Wowcast to connect to LG TVs wirelessly over WiFi. Once synced up, you can access audio settings through the Home Dashboard on those displays (also coming via future update).  A Triple Sound Optimiz

Wayne Mills for Insider Age doesn't necessarily define success in Congress. A leader's character and platform count. More youthful representation would better serve the country, young members of Congress say.  But cautionary tales abound. Read more from Insider's " Red, White, and Gray " series. This story was originally published on September 15, 2022 and has been updated to include recent developments. Voters in western North Carolina chose youth when they elected Madison Cawthorn, widely considered a rising star of the Republican Party, to Congress when he was 25 years old. Now, at 27, the firebrand conservative is on his way out of office. His constituents booted him after a series of scandals.  Security agents caught Cawthorn with a gun at a local airport twice.  He claimed without evidence that Republican colleagues invited him to parties with cocaine and orgies.  He called Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy a "thug" amid R

Indian fintech Money View said on Monday it has raised $75 million in a new funding round, its second this year, despite the market slump as it looks to scale its core credit business and build more products in the South Asian market. Apis Partners led Money View’s Series E funding round, valuing the Bengaluru-headquartered startup at $900 million, up from $615 million in a $75 million Series D funding round in March. The startup said in a statement that the round hasn’t closed and it expects to raise more capital. TechCrunch reported in October that Money View was engaging with investors to raise up to $150 million at a valuation of $1 billion . The startup said today that existing backers Tiger Global, Winter Capital and Evolence also participated in the funding. The eight-year-old startup offers personalized credit products and financial management solutions to customers who otherwise don’t have a credit score and so can’t avail credit from banks and other financial institutions.

TL;DR : The 2022 Complete Raspberry Pi and Arduino Developer Bundle is on sale for £32.71, saving you 97% on list price. Looking for an educational present to hand out this Christmas? If you have someone on your gifting list who dreams of building their own electronic devices, the 2022 Complete Raspberry Pi and Arduino Developer Bundle helps give them the gift of a well-rounded education in this fascinating space. They'll be creating their own devices in no time with help from these nine informative courses.  There's no need to have any prior Raspberry Pi experience to dig into this fleet of courses. If they're brand-new to this world, they can kick things off with Raspberry Pi for Beginners, a highly rated course taught by Edouard Renard, a software engineer and entrepreneur. He gives students a hands-on, step-by-step course that targets the newest version of Raspberry Pi, Raspberry Pi 4.  That same awesome instructor teaches Arduino for Beginners as well, providing

Former President Donald Trump. Morry Gash/AP Trump's lawyers should consider having him plead insanity at trial, a Harvard law professor said. Constitutional law professor Laurence Tribe commented on Trump's response to the January 6 panel. Tribe tweeted that based on the response, he doesn't envy the lawyers who agree to represent Trump. A Harvard law professor has suggested that former President Donald Trump's legal team should get him to plead insanity if he goes on trial. In a tweet on December 25, Laurence Tribe, an expert on constitutional law , shared his comments about Trump's new video message to the January 6 panel. "If this is the 'defense' at Trump's forthcoming trial, I don't envy the lawyers who agree to represent him," Tribe tweeted . "They'd better be psychiatrists expert at reflexive projection and capable of getting their client to plead insanity," Tribe added. —Laurence Tribe (@tribelaw) Decembe

Twitter logo displayed on a cellphone with Elon Musk and the Twitter bird in the background. Jonathan Raa/NurPhoto via Getty Images Twitter is fighting a lawsuit by a group of employees whose layoffs take effect in the new year. The employees, part of mass layoffs since Elon Musk took over, want more than a month's severance. Twitter's lawyers argue that many employees received the legally required notice before layoffs. Twitter is asking a California federal court to throw out a proposed class action suit by a group of employees suing over "mass layoffs" at the social media platform since Elon Musk took over. On Friday, Twitter asked the court to either transfer the allegations to Delaware — where disputes over Twitter's acquisition by Musk are to take place under the terms of the deal — or to dismiss potential class allegations in the suit.  Twitter has argued that the employees who brought the lawsuit themselves have different circumstances, and th

President Joe Biden and Iranian Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei. Mandel Ngan/Getty Images Biden has made restoring the 2015 Iran nuclear deal a top foreign policy goal.  Trump withdrew from the deal in May 2018, pushing tensions with Iran to historic heights.  An effort to revive the deal is stalled. Visit BusinessInsider.com for more stories . President Joe Biden has made restoring the 2015 Iran nuclear deal a top foreign policy priority. Reviving the deal has proved complicated, however, and negotiations to restore the pact are stalled. The election of a hardline president, Ebrahim Raisi, the use of Iranian-made drones by Russia in the war in Ukraine, and the Iranian government's brutal crackdown on recent protests have not helped matters. Robert Malley, the Biden administration's special envoy for Iran, recently said that the US government remained open to diplomacy but signaled that Tehran's sale of drones to Russia and approach to the protests was throwing a

President Trump speaks to members of the media following a Christmas Eve video teleconference with members of the military, at his Mar-a-Lago estate, in Palm Beach, Florida. Associated Press Former President Donald Trump was among the most controversial presidents in US history. He's the only American president to be impeached twice. Trump's legacy will be defined by his disastrous handling of COVID-19. Visit BusinessInsider.com for more stories . Former President Donald Trump entered 2020 as just the third commander-in-chief in US history to be impeached, and left office in 2021 as the only president to be impeached twice.  With just a week left in office, Trump was impeached for inciting a violent insurrection at the US Capitol.  During his final year as president, hundreds of thousands of Americans died from a pandemic that Trump deliberately downplayed to the public.  Trump is just the 11th incumbent president who won their party's nomination but failed t