Taking a deeper look at the newly released batch of ‘Dark Souls III’ screenshots.

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SILVERSTONE, England – Nissan has added a bit of range to its Leaf electric car but the outlook for battery-only vehicles looks grim as sales, in Europe at least, only seem to react to tax payer handouts.

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It will be the largest, most sophisticated (and most expensive) piece of scientific equipment ever launched into space. Here’s why it matters.

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Facebook significantly outperformed expectations in the fourth quarter of 2015, both in terms of financial and engagement metrics. The company registered 52% growth in revenue over the prior year quarter to over $5.84 billion, against a Reuters compiled consensus estimate of $5.36 billion. Operating income more than doubled to $2.56 billion and the company’s operating margin improved from 29% in Q4 2014 to 44% in Q4 2015. This helped Facebook post robust 116% year-over-year (y-o-y) earnings growth in the quarter to 54 cents a share. In terms of engagement metrics, there was 3% sequential growth each in Facebook’s daily active users (DAUs) to 1.04 billion and monthly active users (MAUs) to 1.59 billion. To put this in perspective, this means that over 20% of the world’s population logs in to Facebook at least once a month. This ratio varies from over 60% in the U.S. and Canada to 14% in the Asia-Pacific region.

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For anyone who missed a post-blizzard glimpse of a disaster-ravaged New York last weekend, you’ve got another chance this weekend thanks to Ubisoft. We’re about to get our first large-scale glimpse into The Division, the company’s post-apocalyptic third-person MMO about teams of soldiers trying to do their best to maintain order in a nightmarish New York while getting some sweet loot in the process. Or maybe it’s the other way around. The closed beta starts today, January 28th, on Xbox One, and tomorrow on PC and PS4.

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Almost a year ago one of my relatives booked a 91-day round trip cruise and began extensive planning and preparation for the trip. She just sailed from Rotterdam to Singapore with stops in many venues along the route including three in India. Because she had traveled extensively within India in the past she decided that she would remain on-board when docking there because of the distance and hassle to get from the ship to these cities.

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Using the pay-as-you-go model popularised by mobile phones, a remarkable Kenyan company, M-Kopa Solar, is providing rent-to-own solar energy products that will help provide cheap solar power to rural homes.

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Silicon Valley’s most famous tech companies are starting a new hiring craze: putting economists on the payroll.

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