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[ad_1] Samsung Electronics Co. was the world’s top smartphone maker in the third quarter of the year, a report showed on Wednesday, as demand for its mobile devices increased in advanced markets amid the pandemic. Samsung led the industry in terms of smartphone production with 78 million units in the …

[ad_1] On the same day that China collected lunar rocks on a groundbreaking space mission, a critical American telescope collapsed at the Arecibo Observatory in Puerto Rico. Built in 1963, the observatory was a beacon for US astronomical research, lasted through natural disasters, and inspired generations of Puerto Rican researchers. …

[ad_1] December 2020 we are in the last month of what has been an incredible year. Let’s take a moment of silence for video games and the wonderful journeys they have brought us. It is not bad to stay home if we have games to play! Without a doubt, the …

[ad_1] A huge radio telescope at Puerto Rico’s Arecibo Observatory, one of the largest in the world, collapsed on Tuesday after suffering severe damage since August, authorities said, after 57 years of astronomical discoveries. The telescope’s decaying 900-ton instrument platform, suspended by cables 450 feet (137 meters) above a 1,000-foot-wide …

[ad_1] Slack increases in acquisitions news, Salesforce falls On Tuesday, November 1, software heavyweight Salesforce (CRM) revealed that it had signed a definitive agreement to acquire business communications company Slack (WORK). Salesforce started the cloud revolution, and two decades later, we continue to leverage all the power it offers to …

[ad_1] Deep on the campus of Riga Technical University, a team of researchers is searching for technology that will one day help prevent asteroids from hitting Earth. Very high precision chronoscopes built by hand in the laboratory of Latvian startup Eventech are used today to track the movements of satellites. …

[ad_1] The Australian Square Kilometer Array Pathfinder (ASKAP), developed and operated by Australia’s national scientific agency, CSIRO, mapped approximately 3,000,000 galaxies in just 300 hours. This Rapid ASKAP Continuum Survey is like a Google map of the universe where most of the millions of star-shaped point maps are distant galaxies. …

[ad_1] The world’s factories are moving forward, providing vital support for economies, as renewed virus restrictions in some countries affect growth. Manufacturing activity indices in the United States, China and parts of Asia improved in November, and Germany saw robust expansion, according to reports on Tuesday. In South Korea, a …

[ad_1] Elliot Page shared this image. (courtesy of elliotpage) Highlight “I love being trans. And I love being queer,” Elliot Page wrote. “I can’t begin to express how extraordinary it feels,” Elliot added. Elliot came out gay in 2014 New Delhi: Celebrities from around the world flooded social media with …

[ad_1] China has successfully landed a probe on the moon. There, the unmanned Chang’e-5 will prepare to collect the first lunar samples collected since the Soviet Union’s Luna 24 mission in 1976. Here’s everything you need to know: Why has China gone to the moon? Beijing wants to become a …