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SK Hynix Inc. said Tuesday its first-quarter net profit has surged 64 percent over a year earlier thanks to robust memory chip prices that offset slowing growth in the mobile sector. The South Korean chipmaker, which supplies to Apple, reported…
Google parent Alphabet on Monday reported a jump in first-quarter net income on the back of strong digital ad sales and an accounting adjustment. The Mountain View, California-based company’s net income surged 73 percent to $9.4 billion, or $13.33 per…
NASA’s new boss is already getting cheers from space. Immediately after being sworn into office Monday by Vice President Mike Pence, NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine took a call from the three U.S. astronauts at the International Space Station who offered…
The European Space Agency (ESA) released the largest-ever map of the stars on Wednesday, made from data collected by its Gaia satellite. The latest data release, the second unveiled by the ESA since the satellite was launched in 2013, offers details on the position…
On Monday, China asked the public for submissions of innovative design ideas for the country’s own version of a manned lunar exploration mission currently being planned. According to Zhou Jianping, chief designer of China’s manned space program, the goal is to find innovative…
MOSCOW (Sputnik) – The European Sentinel-3B environmental monitoring satellite reached the designated sun-synchronous orbit after launch on board a Rokot carrier rocket from the Plesetsk space center in northwestern Russia earlier on Wednesday. According to the European Space Agency (ESA), the…
