Ubisoft postponed the release of the next title in its popular “Assassin’s Creed” game franchise — called “Assassin’s Creed Shadows” — by three months to Feb. 14, 2025. John Keeble | Getty Images French video game publisher Ubisoft is facing questions over its future, as it grapples with a lackluster games pipeline and pressure from … Read more
Recent models highlight regional climate impacts from the equator to the poles. Credit: Collins M et al/Frontiers The effects of climate change are not distant future scenarios or confined to remote parts of the world—they are unfolding now, right in our own backyards. In 2023, extreme weather events impacted communities across every inhabited continent, causing … Read more
Alex Chriss, CEO of PayPal Inc. Courtesy: PayPal In January, about a hundred days into his job as PayPal CEO, Alex Chriss told CNBC’s David Faber that the payments company hadn’t had much to celebrate in recent years. But Chriss confidently said he was prepared to “shock the world.” “I love being an underdog,” Chriss … Read more
Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain The first major study of social media behavior during wartime has found that posts celebrating national and cultural unity in a country under attack receive significantly more online engagement than derogatory posts about the aggressors. University of Cambridge psychologists analyzed a total of 1.6 million posts on Facebook and Twitter (now … Read more
People walk along London Bridge past the City of London skyline. Sopa Images | Lightrocket | Getty Images London-based online trading platform Freetrade told CNBC Tuesday that it’s agreed to buy the U.K. customer book of Stake, an Australian investing app. The move is part of a broader bid from Freetrade to bolster its domestic … Read more
Retail investing platform Robinhood on Tuesday announced that it’s offering customers in Europe the ability to transfer cryptocurrencies in and out of its app, broadening its product capabilities in the region as it presses ahead with international expansion. In a blog post on Tuesday, the company said that it’ll allow customers in the European Union … Read more
A Li L6 by Li Auto is displayed at its booth during the Beijing International Automotive Exhibition, or Auto China 2024, in Beijing, China, April 25, 2024. Tingshu Wang | Reuters BEIJING — Chinese new energy vehicle brands Li Auto and Zeekr each delivered a record number of cars in September, according to company data … Read more
Changes in Tropical cyclone (TC) cold wakes with respect to distance from coast within 500 km of the U.S. (a) Southeast coast (SEC) and (b) Gulf coast during the period 1982–1999 (blue), 2000–2020 (yellow). Nearshore Atlantic hurricane track locations within 200 km of the U.S. (c) SEC and (e) Gulf coast. Blue dots represent the period 1982–1999 and yellow dots represent … Read more
This NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image features the spiral galaxy IC 1954. Credit: ESA/Hubble & NASA, D. Thilker, J. Lee and the PHANGS-HST Team This image from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope features the spiral galaxy IC 1954, located 45 million light-years from Earth in the constellation Horologium. It sports a glowing bar in its … Read more
Sumit Dhawan, CEO of Proofpoint, took the reins as head of the cybersecurity company in 2022, a year after it was acquired by Thoma Bravo for $12.3 billion. He’s been pushing the firm to consider strategic opportunities such as mergers and acquisitions of smaller cybersecurity players to boost the company’s market expansion and stimulate industry … Read more
