Boeing receives last 747 order, ending production of the storied airliner
The four 747-8 freighters for Atlas Air will roll off Boeing s assembly line by next year, 53 years after the first flight of the Queen of the Skies.
Jan. 12, 2021 5:59 p.m. PT Listen - 01:53
Cargo can be quickly loaded into a 747 freighter s thanks to its swing up nose. Atlas Air
Priced about $149 million each, the aircraft will do the heavy and critical job of flying air cargo around the world. Though the passenger version of the 747 with its staircase and oh-so exclusive upper deck rightly won the aircraft the title of Queen of the Skies, it s perfectly fitting that the pioneering airliner will end on a freighter note.
The coronavirus pandemic has largely been good to tech businesses.
During the virtual International CES this week, the Consumer Technology Association announced its annual forecast for the consumer electronics industry. CTA says that the industry defined as “retail sales revenue for the technology industry” will reach $461 billion in the U.S. in 2021. That would represent a 4.3 percent increase over 2020, which was a record year.
CTA, which is both the producer of CES and an advocacy organization on behalf of the industry, releases such a forecast twice a year.
The organization also made forecasts about trends related to specific product categories.
Coding Isn’t Just for Nerds
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In “Do Children in India Really Need to Learn to Code?” (Op-Ed, Jan. 4), Neelesh Misra posits that the future should have a place “for dreamers and doers, and not just those hunched forever over a computer,” as if the two are mutually exclusive. They are not.
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