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| Ryanair ordered 75 additional Boeing MAX jets |
12/7/2020 |
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The order would be worth more than $9 billion at list prices, although airlines routinely receive deep discounts. Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed. Boeing shares rose 6% to $237.20, their highest closing price in nearly nine months.
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| Hewlett Packard Enterprise to move from California to Texas |
12/4/2020 |
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Hewlett Packard Enterprise was created in 2015 when the computer hardware pioneer Hewlett-Packard Inc. broke into two parts after years of struggling to keep up with industry trends, such as consumers’ shift away from personal computers.
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| Huge radio telescope in Puerto Rico collapsed |
12/3/2020 |
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The U.S. National Science Foundation had earlier announced that the Arecibo Observatory would be closed. An auxiliary cable snapped in August, causing a 100-foot gash on the 1,000-foot-wide (305-meter-wide) dish and damaged the receiver platform that hung above it. Then a main cable broke in early November.
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| Federal judge overturn Trumps' work visa hold |
12/3/2020 |
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The changes applying to the H-1B visa program announced in October include imposing salary requirements on companies employing skilled overseas workers and limits on specialty occupations.
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| China's lunar lander to bring back moon rock samples |
12/3/2020 |
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Plans call for the lander to spend two days drilling into the lunar surface and collecting 2 kilograms (4.4 pounds) of rocks and debris. The top stage of the probe will be launched back into lunar orbit to transfer the samples to a capsule to take back to Earth, where it is to land in China's northern grasslands in mid-December.
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| Sending a trash collector truck into space |
12/2/2020 |
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ClearSpace SA will lead to the “first active debris removal mission” in 2025, in which a custom-made spacecraft will capture and bring down part of a rocket once used to deliver a satellite into orbit.
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| Is iPhone really water proof? |
12/2/2020 |
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Italy regulators say Apple owes 10 million euros for claims that its iPhones are more waterproof than they are. Apple misled consumers when claiming certain models of iPhone were water-resistant up to 13 feet for as long as 30 minutes.
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| TSMC targets 80 billion transistor chips by second half of 2022 |
12/1/2020 |
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But just think about it. AMD’s Navi 21 GPU, the chip inside the Radeon 6800 and 6900 Series boards, clocks in just under 27 billion transistors using 7nm. So a 3nm GPU of the same size could pack around 80 billion transistors if they really pushed it.
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| Semi equipment Capex spending comes mainly from Asia |
11/30/2020 |
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“Samsung’s level of spending over the past four years has been nothing short of incredible. I believe that they are attempting to put so much distance between themselves and the Chinese memory startups that it will be basically impossible for them to catch up,” IC Insights President Bill McClean said.
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| The FCC designated ZTE as a U.S. national security threat |
11/27/2020 |
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In May 2019, President Donald Trump signed an executive order barring U.S. companies from using telecommunications equipment made by companies posing national security risks and the administration added Huawei to its trade blacklist.
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