North’s Focals smart glasses are getting significantly more affordable, with the discreet wearable display slicing hundreds off its sticker price as the company tries to make it easier for potential customers to try the eyewear on. North is launching a pop-up showroom for Focals in Seattle on February 19, which will then travel down the coast to San Francisco. It’s … Continue reading
GM has two new EVs in its line-up, though they’re eBikes rather than electric cars or trucks. The first two models under General Motors’ freshly-named ARIV eBike brand, the electrified bicycles are going up for preorder from today, though only for a select few. The two designs are the ARIV Meld and the ARIV Merge. Both use a custom-designed electric … Continue reading
Coffee Meets Bagel—the worst-named dating app in an extremely competitive field—spent Valentine’s Day performing one of the more intimate acts a company can engage in: informing its users of a data breach.
In what might mark the end of new quad-engined jumbos, Airbus has announced that it will end production of its A380 superjumbo in 2021. It’s the largest passenger plane ever that was built to best Boeing’s iconic 747. Merely 12 years after it first took to the skies in 2007, Airbus is now ending the program.
Airbus had expected that airlines would embrace the larger plane that could travel longer distances. However, around the same time that the A380 first flew, new twin-engine jets that were more fuel efficient arrived.
The Boeing 787 uses composite materials, is extremely fuel efficient, and more comfortable for passengers as well since it’s considerably quieter. It even has the same 14,800 km range as the A380 with the equivalent consumption of 102 mpg per seat as opposed to 72 mpg per seat for the Airbus superjumbo.
Airbus has been struggling to win new orders for the plane even as airlines have opted for some of its other offerings like the A350-900 and the A350-1000. Emirates is the largest operator of the A380 and even it has decided to reduce its A380 order book by 39 aircraft to 123 from 162 aircraft previously.
Airbus will thus manufacture 14 new A380s for Emirates over the next two years. “As a consequence and given the lack of order backlog with other airlines, Airbus will cease deliveries of the A380 in 2021,” it said.
Airbus To End Production Of A380 Superjumbo
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Maya Angelou, Beyoncé, James Baldwin and other Black icons have a lot to teach us about love.
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One of the coolest cars ever made is the Lancia Stratos Stradale. It was rare and very fast in its day. If you happen to own the awesome LEGO Technic Porsche 911 GT3 RS construction kit, there are some new instructions out that will let you build the Lancia with the same kit.
The build requires 2197 parts altogether – about 500 shy of the Porsche. If you want your LEGO Stratos Stradale to work perfectly, you will need a 32187 Technic Driving Ring Extension to enable reverse gear. If you don’t care about reverse gear, you can build the Lancia with only the parts in the kit with five working forward gears.
You can buy the full instructions via Rebrickable for 15 euro (or about $17 USD.) I wonder who the genius was who came up with this build was; they deserve a beer and a round of applause.
[via Hooniverse via Motor1]
NASA has announced that it has selected a new space mission with a target launch for 2023. The new mission is called SPHEREx, which stands for Spectro-Photometer for the History of the Universe, Epoch of Reionization and Ices Explorer. The mission is planned to last two years and is funded at $242 million. That mission cost doesn’t include the cost … Continue reading
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