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It takes a little imagination to get into Assassin’s Creed. Whether the title you’re on takes place in ancient Greece, 19th-century London, or one of the franchise’s many other settings, there’s a lot of action involved—action you don’t exactly experience when sitting comfortably on the couch. Ubisoft aims to close …

A number of startups are experimenting with what a better social app could look like. For a startup called Alms, the answer is a social network that focuses on users’ well-being through participation in creator-led challenges in areas like personal growth, sustainability and others with positive impacts. Instead of driving …

Archaeologists have found evidence that in 1650 BCE (Middle Bronze Age), a cosmic airburst destroyed Tall el-Hammam, an ancient walled city in the Jordan Valley close to the north end of the Dead Sea. An eyewitness description of this catastrophic event — which was larger than the 1908 explosion over Tunguska …

On the evening of Sept. 13, something hit Jupiter, producing an explosion and a flash of light visible even to amateur astronomers with off-the-shelf telescopes. Now, the hunt is on to figure out what the impactor could have been. The collision was first reported by Brazilian amateur astronomer José Luis …

  The ongoing automotive chip shortage is reportedly having ripple effects throughout the industry. Samsung is reportedly concerned that problems in one area of the semiconductor market could spill over into others. The problem is that there’s not enough chip capacity to go around, according to the Financial Times. Automakers …

This deep dive started with a thread a few weeks ago about Google’s selection of People Also Ask (PAA) results and the potential impact it has on brands. Thread Time: Subject: Negative brand impact of PAA results. Google has been including more balanced questions into People Also Ask (PAA) results. …

Using the spectral data collected by the Visual and Infrared Mapping Spectrometer (VIMS) onboard NASA’s Cassini spacecraft, a team of researchers has found a mixture of organic materials and water ice in nine impact craters on Titan, the largest moon of Saturn. This colorized radar image, taken by NASA’s Cassini …

The U.S. App Store’s downloads have surpassed China’s downloads for the first time since 2014. According to data from Sensor Tower’s Q2 2020 report, out today, the U.S. App Store saw 27.4% year-over-year growth in the quarter, compared to the 2.1% growth for the China App Store. During the quarter, …

Coronavirus impact sends app downloads, usage and consumer spending to record highs in Q2 As the world continued to cope with the impact of the coronavirus outbreak, the second quarter of 2020 became the largest yet for mobile app downloads, usage, and consumer spending. According to new data from app …

The impact of COVID-19 on marketing and SEO CMOs are trying to figure out what to do. They must decide how to respond to this unprecedented situation, how to make the right budget cuts, how to best help customers in this time of crisis. In this revealing survey of hundreds …