Month: June 2025

AYANEO Flip 1S KB handheld gaming PC has a 7 inch screen, QWERTY keyboard, and up to Ryzen AI 9 HX 370

The AYANEO Flip 1S KB is an upcoming handheld gaming PC with a clamshell design that makes it look a bit like a mini laptop. When you lift the lid you’re greeted by a 7 inch, 1920 x 1080 pixel OLED display with a 144 HZ refresh rate on top and a …

The AYANEO Flip 1S KB is an upcoming handheld gaming PC with a clamshell design that makes it look a bit like a mini laptop. When you lift the lid you’re greeted by a 7 inch, 1920 x 1080 pixel OLED display with a 144 HZ refresh rate on top and a QWERTY keyboard on the […]

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Founder of 23andMe buys back company out of bankruptcy auction

Concerns about transfer of genetic data to new company may now be moot.

Anne Wojcicki has been declared the winner of a bankruptcy auction for 23andMe, the genetics testing start-up she founded, prevailing over a rival bid from Regeneron Pharmaceuticals.

TTAM Research Institute, a non-profit public benefit company also founded by Wojcicki, won the auction with a $305 million bid for the 23andMe assets, which will not come with any company liabilities attached.

23andMe filed for bankruptcy in March after rejecting several go-private offers from Wojcicki in recent years. Regeneron was declared the winning bidder in May after the company accepted a $256 million bid in a previous auction.

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Here’s Kia’s new small, affordable electric car: The 2026 EV4 sedan

The sedan goes on sale in the US toward the end of this year.

SEOUL, South Korea—Drive enough electric vehicles from enough different manufacturers and something becomes clear: the Korean automakers know what they're doing. From small cars like the Niro all the way to three-row SUVs, the EVs coming out of Kia (and its sibling Hyundai) are as efficient as anything out there, usually with a distinctive style. It's fair to say they're at the front of the pack, at least as far as EVs offered to North America.

And soon, there will be a new one to consider. It's the Kia EV4, a small electric sedan that uses a new version of the E-GMP platform that has so impressed us in cars like the EV6. Originally designed for midsize and larger vehicles and operating at 800 V, the E-GMP powertrain is very capable but also relatively expensive to make. Now Kia has taken what it learned with the 800 V experience and applied it to the new 400 V version that's suitable for smaller and cheaper EVs.

One motor, two packs

Kia told Ars that while the development know-how carried over to the new lower-voltage components, the battery, motors, and power electronics are all new. The car arrives in the US in Q4 of this year and will feature a native NACS charging port. There's only one motor being offered for now, which generates 201 hp (150 kW) and 209 lb-ft (283 Nm) and drives the front wheels. But there are two choices of battery: the standard 58.3 kWh, which Kia reckons should achieve an EPA range of 235 miles (378 km); and an 81.4 kWh long-range pack, that should be sufficient for 330 miles (531 km) on North American roads. In time, expect a twin-motor, all-wheel drive option, as well as a more powerful EV4 GT.

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