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SamMobile has affiliate and sponsored partnerships. If you buy something through one of these links, we may earn a commission. Last updated: May 18th, 2022 at 11:45 UTC+02:00 Samsung’s largest chip manufacturing facility is in Pyeongtaek, a city located about 70 kilometers south of the capital Seoul. It also happens to be one of the world’s largest semiconducting manufacturing facilities. The facilities are spread across a 289,000 square meter site which is about the same size as 400 football fields. Samsung may be…

Sky customers are about to see more content coming to their TVs with the satellite television firm announcing what's coming soon during its glitzy Up Next 2022 event at the iconic Theatre Royal, Drury Lane last night. Sky has revealed that users will be treated to the "largest ever" slate of new programming which will include top dramas, comedy and more original films.In fact, the company is promising over 200 Sky Original shows across all genres this year – that's a 60 percent increase from 2021 and should hopefully mean…

Alfredi on reef Komodo. Credit: Andrea MarshallScientists from the Marine Megafauna Foundation and Murdoch University, through a collaborative effort including the public, are reporting a large number of manta rays in the waters of Komodo National Park, an Indonesian UNESCO World Heritage Site, suggesting the area may hold the key to the regional recovery of the vulnerable species.Reef mantas (Mobula alfredi), which grow up to 5.5 meters (18 feet) wide, tend to reside and feed in shallow, coastal habitats. They also visit…

Hydrovolt, the largest battery recycling plant in Europe, has started operations in Fredrikstad, Norway. The plant is a joint venture between two Norwegian companies – Hydro, one of the world’s largest aluminum companies, and Northvolt, a battery producer building battery factories in Sweden and Germany. The new battery recycling facility has the capacity to process 12,000 tons of battery packs per year, or around 25,000 EV batteries. This is enough for the entire end-of-life battery market in Norway currently.…

Stonehenge has been intensively studied for centuries. Yet even now, we are still discovering new aspects of the famous site.An archaeological 'biopsy' of the surrounding landscape has revealed a hidden network of large pits encircling the stone structure.  The study is the first extensive electromagnetic induction survey of the region, and it has helped archaeologists uncover hundreds of large pits, each over 2.4 meters (7.8 ft) wide. Some of these were most certainly made by human hands thousands of years ago.What…

Handy Geng, a Chinese electronics handyman and influencer, have created a massive power bank with 27,000,000mAh capacity. Geng posted a video on YouTube in January, where he detailed the process of building the power bank. He added a cheeky caption: "It seems everyone else has a bigger power bank than mine. I'm not so happy with that. So I made a 27,000,000mAh portable charger power bank."A report by MySmartPrice stated that Geng estimates his power bank has the capacity to charge over 5,000 phones with 3,000mAh…

EV startup Canoo is reportedly using a lawsuit to recoup profits made by DD Global Holdings and lead beneficiary Pak Tam Li, a significant stakeholder in Canoo with ties to China. In the lawsuit, Canoo is accusing DD Global of selling its shares in March while simultaneously doing an equity swap for the same amount of shares with an unknown buyer. Canoo ($GOEV) is an LA-based EV startup founded in 2017 by two former employees of Faraday Future. The automaker has several flagship EVs in the works including the MPDV…

NASA’s beleaguered InSight lander on Mars has detected a magnitude 5 “marsquake” — the largest one the spacecraft has felt yet since landing on the planet in November of 2018. It’s a major moment that comes during a fraught time for InSight, as the spacecraft’s solar panels continue to gather dust that will eventually bring an end to the vehicle’s life on Mars. InSight’s mission on the Red Planet has been to probe the interior of Mars, primarily by sensing for tremors from the surface. Unlike quakes here on Earth,…

An artist illustration of the InSight lander on Mars. InSight, short for Interior Exploration using Seismic Investigations, Geodesy and Heat Transport, is designed to give the Red Planet its first thorough checkup since it formed 4.5 billion years ago. Credit: NASA/JPL-CaltechEstimated to be magnitude 5, the quake is the strongest ever detected on another planet.NASA’s InSight Mars lander has detected the largest quake ever observed on another planet: an estimated magnitude 5 temblor that occurred on May 4, 2022, the…

Europe’s largest floating solar farm – which is on the Alqueva hydroelectric dam’s reservoir in Portugal – is ready to produce power in July. Europe’s largest floating solar farm The Alqueva reservoir is Western Europe’s largest artificial lake, and the Alqueva Dam is on the Guadiana River, one of the longest in the Iberian Peninsula. The dam is in Alentejo, which is in southern Portugal, near the Spanish border. The floating solar farm, the size of four soccer fields, is made up of 12,000 solar panels that will…