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Samsung Targets $10 Billion-Plus U.S. Plant, Ramps Up Chip Competition With TSMC

Samsung Electronics is considering investing more than $10 billion to build a chip-making factory in the U.S., according to recent media reports, a move that would help the South Korean tech giant compete with Taiwan’s TSMC in the capital-intensive contract chip manufacturing space.

Samsung, which is the world’s largest maker of smartphones and memory chips, is in discussions to invest as much as $17 billion to build a chip plant in Arizona, Texas or New York, the Wall Street Journal reported on Friday. A spokesperson for Samsung said the company has no “specific plans” to build a factory in the U.S., though added that the company explores “various opportunities for business development so that [Samsung is] open and ready when such opportunities arise.”

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Covid – 19: What to do in Coronavirus, Episode-88

Dr. Nazmul Islam Shiplu, Assistant Professor, Teaside University, UK, is talking on NTV about the situation in Corona, the United Kingdom. And Dr. Md. Mamun Sheikh, Staff Scientist, St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital, USA. Maksudul Islam is conducting the program.

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The Queen will make Windsor Castle her main home and won’t resume residence at Buckingham Palace this year – but wants to ‘commute’ to London for engagements if it is safe to do so, a source claims

The Queen is set to make Windsor Castle her main home and won’t resume residence at Buckingham Palace this year, according to a royal source.

Her Majesty, 94, would like to ‘commute’ to London for engagements if it is safe to do so, the Sunday Times reports.

It is believed the Queen’s absence from Buckingham Palace will be her longest during her 68-year reign. 

The Queen would usually go back to the premises in October following her summer break in Balmoral, but instead, she will reportedly return to Windsor Castle where she self-isolated with the Duke of Edinburgh from March 19 prior to their Scottish holiday.

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Keir Starmer tells Boris Johnson: your chaos puts schools return at risk

Plans to get all children back to school in early September are now at “serious risk” because of government incompetence and the chaos caused by the exams fiasco, the Labour leader Keir Starmer has warned.

In one of his strongest interventions to date, which is bound to draw a furious response from Downing Street, Starmer told the Observer that two crucial weeks, which should have been spent preparing for schools to reopen, have been wasted dealing with a self-inflicted “mess” that has destroyed public confidence in government.

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HEC Paris tops 2020 masters in finance ranking

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When the FT’s masters in finance ranking began, in 2011, Donald Trump was still presenting The Apprentice and coronaviruses were a niche interest among microbiologists. Much has changed since then — but the number-one spot in the ranking has not.

This year, as in 2011, HEC Paris tops the table. More precisely, the French business school ranks first among providers of pre-experience masters in finance (MiF) courses — that is, for students with little or no relevant professional experience. The tables set out information on the best programmes worldwide in this area, as well as on the top three courses for people who have already worked in the finance sector. It is based on surveys of schools and of alumni who completed their masters in 2017.

HEC Paris has come top every year apart from 2017, when Edhec edged it aside, and 2019, when the ranking did not run. Its success is explained by the financial uplift that its alumni enjoy:

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NASA news: Meathook Galaxy where star died in nuclear blast caught by Hubble telescope

The galaxy, officially known as NGC 2442, has been nicknamed the Meathook Galaxy due to its irregular features. Two coiling arms appear to stretch out from its core, creating a winding, snake-like effect. Viewed from Earth, the galaxy sits in the southern constellation of Volans, the Flying Fish.

Snapped by NASA‘s Hubble telescope, the galaxy is located a mind-boggling 50 million light-years away.

In more earthly terms, NGC 2442 is located some 293,931,270,000,000,000,000 miles away.

The galaxy measures about 75,000 light-years across and its shape is attributed to an encounter with a smaller galaxy.

And one of its dusty spiral arms was host to a supernova eruption that flared up in March 2015.

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Coronavirus latest news: Birmingham police break up more than 70 illegal parties as city tries to avoid lockdown

Police in Birmingham have reminded residents to adhere to social distancing, as the city attempts to curb the rise in coronavirus infections and avoid a local lockdown. 

On Saturday, police were called to more than 70 street and house parties and other unlicensed gatherings overnight – including one party which involved two marquees and a DJ. 

The force tweeted: “Our officers are out tonight responding to calls about large gatherings. Please stick to Government guidelines and keep safe”.

The warnings follow growing concerns about the rising number of cases within the city. Birmingham, which is the second most populous city in the UK, has seen infection rates increase to 32.1 per 100,000 in recent days.