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A semiconductor wafer is on display at Touch Taiwan, an annual display exhibition in Taipei, Taiwan April 16, 2025. Ann Wang | ReutersAsian technology stocks extended their sell-off on Wednesday, with semiconductor names leading declines after another weak session in the U.S.In South Korea, SK Hynix slid more than 10% after the chip giant missed analysts’ estimates despite posting record quarterly profit and revenue. Samsung Electronics lost over 4%, while LG Innotek fell 9% and Seoul Semiconductor dropped over 6%. The latest weakness in Asian chip stocks reflects “the ongoing deleveraging process in Korea and softer sentiment towards global technology stocks,”…

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Investing.com — Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing (), the world’s largest contract chipmaker, said on Tuesday it had begun gradually restoring operations at its chip manufacturing facility in Japan after a powerful earthquake prompted a temporary evacuation of employees. Track semiconductor stocks in real-time with InvestingPro – now 60% off A 7.1-magnitude earthquake killed at least 13 people near the southern Japanese city of Kumamoto, knocking out power to thousands of homes and ruptured roads across the region The company said all personnel at its Japan Advanced Semiconductor Manufacturing (JASM) plant in Kumamoto Prefecture were safely evacuated following the earthquake, with post-quake inspections…

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An incident response ensued. University officials found that the stockroom freezer where the P. shigelloides was stored also, for some inexplicable reason, held a vial labeled N. meningitidis. University officials determined that 33 people linked to the lab class had been exposed. They called in state public health officials, who quickly helped with risk assessments and sample testing, made public health recommendations, and helped with the investigation. Incident response The health officials recommended that all the exposed people start taking post-exposure prophylactic antibiotics for 10 days. Of the 33 exposed, all but one person started on antibiotics. Health officials noted…

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Last week Badenoch wrote to the prime minister saying he should rule out tax rises or increased borrowing to fund social care reform.A Conservative spokesman said Andrew would attend in Badenoch’s place and was ready to work with Labour on measures that improved social care – provided they were not reliant on tax rises and borrowing.”Social care is vital to protecting the most vulnerable in our society,” he said. “Any changes must be backed by a clear, credible and fully costed plan that delivers better care for the public and value for taxpayers.”Andy Burnham and Labour cannot rely on vague…

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Joe Raedle | Getty ImagesElon Musk’s xAI, now owned by SpaceX, sued Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison to challenge a law that would ban so-called nudify apps in the state.In their complaint, filed in a federal court in Minnesota on Monday, attorneys for xAI wrote that the statute “imposes an overbroad, content-based ban on free speech and the tools of visual expression in a clumsy attempt to prohibit ‘nudification.'”The Minnesota law, which goes into effect on Saturday, targets apps and websites that give people the ability to generate non-consensual sexualized imagery, levying $500,000 fines each time a user creates explicit…

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Zack Polanski has refused three times to apologise to Nigel Farage for re-posting a photo of a man wearing a t-shirt with an image of a guillotine and the slogan “we’re only making plans for Nigel”.Reform UK’s home affairs spokesperson, Zia Yusuf, said the image showed a “photo of man calling for the beheading of Nigel Farage”, which he said could be an “incitement to murder”.The Green Party of England and Wales leader was reported to the Met over the photo, which he quickly deleted, but told the BBC he had not been contacted by police.Speaking to BBC Newsnight, he…

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Zolfaghar and Qadr missiles alongside a metal model of a mini submarine are displayed at Azadi Square as the mutual attacks between Iran and the US, sparked by the parallel routes established in the Strait of Hormuz, intensify day by day in Tehran, Iran on July 24, 2026. Fatemeh Bahrami | Anadolu | Getty ImagesIran late Tuesday stateside targeted U.S. forces in the Middle East with several ballistic missiles, the U.S. Central Command said, raising tensions in the Middle East that had seen hostilities put on brief pause. Centcom in a post on X said that attack originated from Iran,…

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Extending Swift’s scientific mission was not the only consideration when NASA officials selected Katalyst to build and launch a satellite to boost Swift’s orbit. The space agency is using the rescue mission as a technology demonstration and as a way to test the mettle of the commercial satellite servicing industry. With Swift’s orbit rapidly decaying, NASA gave Katalyst nine months to build and launch the Link satellite, an unusually fast timeline for such a complex mission. Katalyst answered the call and delivered the Link satellite for integration with the Pegasus rocket in early June. Poor weather and a technical glitch…

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