Blue Origin, the American space company founded by Jeff Bezos, recently carried out the third launch of its flagship New Glenn rocket. While the mission successfully recovered its first-stage booster, the second stage fell short of the required thrust, failing to deliver BlueBird 7, a communications satellite built by AST SpaceMobile, into its intended orbit.

Leading materials engineering in the semiconductor industry, Applied Materials, announced today that Advantest Corporation, a leading semiconductor test equipment supplier, will join Applied’s Equipment and Process Innovation and Commercialization (EPIC) platform as an innovation partner to strengthen the links between front-end manufacturing technologies and back-end testing of chips and packages, helping chipmakers bring new designs to market faster.

Apple said on April 20 that Tim Cook would step down as CEO and hand over the role to John Ternus, the company’s senior vice president of hardware engineering, on September 1, 2026. Ternus, who currently oversees the development of the iPhone, iPad, Mac, Apple Watch, AirPods, and the Vision Pro headset, will take charge at a pivotal moment, as Apple navigates intensifying competition in AI and rethinks the balance between hardware and software in its products.