Tag: grow

Samsung Electronics expects Q1 profits to grow 48.2%

SEOUL, South Korea (AFP) — Samsung Electronics said Friday it expects profits to soar by 48.2 percent in the first quarter despite a smartphone recall fiasco and the arrest of its de facto head. The world’s largest memory chip and smartphone maker estimated its operating profit in the January-March period at 9.9 trillion won ($8.8 billion), up 48.2 percent from a year earlier, thanks to strong sales of memory chips and display panels. It marked […]

Future buildings could grow their own foundations

NEWCASTLE, England (Reuters) — What do you get if you put an architect, civil engineer, computer scientist, and microbiologist into a room? A future building that grows its own foundations. This might sound like a less than funny joke. In fact, it’s the result of a unique project launched by researchers at the universities of Newcastle and Northumbria, in England, to create a new generation of building materials that are partly living and able to […]