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Ubisoft Creating a Game for the Nintendo Switch That Will "Surprise" Many

Ubisoft Working On Switch Games<p>Yves Guillemont, Chairman and CEO of Ubisoft, has been a roll lately. Yesterday, we dropped some Ghost Recon Wildlands …

These 10 maps let you look at New York in entirely new ways

These are SO much better than an MTA subway map. We got a peek at a new book of dozens of NYC maps, <i>You Are Here: NYC: Mapping the Soul of the City</i>, …

The NES Classic Edition Is Everything You Want It to Be

Nothing shaped my childhood more than Nintendo. Like millions of other little kids, I got a Nintendo Entertainment System for Christmas in 1988. It …

Facebook’s $200MM satellite wouldn’t have been enough to bring Sub Saharan Africa online

Facebook’s Free Basics initiative experienced quite a blow in September, when a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket exploded at Cape Canaveral. The rocket was …

Why Volkswagen Plans to Recall Another 2.6 Million Cars

Volkswagen has received regulatory approval for technical fixes on more cars in Europe affected by its diesel emissions scandal, it said on Friday, …

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Apple Grabs More Than 100% Of Smartphone Profits

Two sets of figures are out this week about Apple’s place in the smartphone market, and while they seem to conflict one another, they ultimately point to Apple strengthening its position as the most profitable smartphone vendor in the world.<p>The first set of stats from Strategy Analytics said this: …

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Wirtschaft<p>Der stellvertretende Fraktionsvorsitzende der Grünen-Bundestagsfraktion, Oliver Krischer, sieht die Finanzierung einer möglichen …

First Cases Of New, Infectious Fungus Reported In U.S.

If you're tracking emerging infectious agents in the United States, it's time to add a new one to the list.<p>The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has identified 13 cases of a fungal infection first seen in Japan in 2009. The culprit is called Candida auris.<p>The fungus has appeared among …

Curiosity rover finds weird 'egg rock' meteorite on Mars

NASA's Mars rover Curiosity stumbled upon a dark grey, golf-ball-size object last week that looks nothing like the typical red-orange rocks that are normally seen on Mars.<p>To figure out exactly what this weird rock is and where it came from, Curiosity used its on-board rock-zapping laser to analyze …

We now know exactly how many DNA mutations smoking causes

Every 50 cigarettes you smoke gives you one extra DNA mutation per lung cell<p>A common tactic for people trying to give up smoking is to quantify exactly how much damage — financial or physical — each cigarette or pack of cigarette does. How much does smoking cost you per month, for example, or how …

Festnehmen, absetzen, mundtot machen

Nach dem gescheiterten Putsch geht die türkische Führung hart gegen mutmaßliche Putschisten, Kritiker und Kurden vor. Sie ignoriert dabei zunehmend …

Dubai deploys a 'drone hunter' to keep its airport open

Dubai airport has a drone problem and it's deploying a 'hunter' to fix it.<p>The airport, the third busiest in the world, has already been forced to shut three times this year because of unauthorized drone activity, creating a headache for airlines and their passengers.<p>During the most recent closure, …

Wegen Brexit - Deutsche Telekom prüft angeblich Rückzug aus Großbritannien

Die Deutsche Telekom zieht möglicherweise Konsequenzen aus dem Brexit-Votum Großbritanniens. Laut der Nachrichtenagentur Reuters erwägt das …

Pilot Wave Theory Video Will Make You Totally Rethink Quantum Mechanics

Nobel Prize-winning physicist Richard Feynman has been quoted as saying that it’s safe to say “that nobody understands quantum mechanics.” But even …

Sony shares a list of 39 titles that will be optimized for the PS4 Pro at launch

Next Thursday is PS4 Pro day. Announced two months ago at an event in New York, the souped up version of Sony’s console has been designed with 4K and high dynamic range gaming in mind, featuring amped up specs, including an eight-core x86-64 AMD Jaguar CPU, a GPU offering double the power of the …