The Chinese airline industry is expanding exponentially and to fill up vacancies for experienced captains, Chinese airlines have targeted disaffected pilots at Hong Kong’s Cathay Pacific Airways and is luring them with sky-high salaries.   There are predictions that the airline industry in...

Local labour laws were violated at the factory of biggest manufacturing partner of smartphone maker Apple in China as both the companies said in a statement recently that they had discovered a small number of students who had been working overtime at this Chinese unit.   Apple has confirmed...

Now industrial robots will allow low-tolerance precision tasks to be effectively completed with fewer trials and within less time in comparison to what is now available with human-supported robot assembly. Mitsubishi Electric Corporation announced that this has been made possible with help of a...

The fuel marketing and refining assets of Total and Erg in the TotalErg joint venture would be sold to the Italian Group API. An agreement to this effect was signed recently. For a total value of €750 million, the expected sale of all of TotalErg’s assets would be completed by this third...

Apple Inc. missed the holiday shopping season for it’s HomePod smart speaker as the company announced the pushing back its launch to early next year from December, even as the entire market for such devices are becoming increasingly competitive and complex.   “We can’t wait for people to...

A new progressive storm door design that has been built with advanced technology for ensuring very smooth operational ease was announced recent by Larson Manufacturing. An effortless convenience and a smooth and consistent closing speed in such doors has been enabled by the use of the patented...

Public roads are being used for testing of their newest driverless cars by Jaguar Land Rover, the biggest car manufacturer of the United Kingdom.   A half-mile route in Coventry city centre is the place of the trials that have going on for several weeks now.   Even while such vehicles...

Tesla faced a barrage of questions related to its continuous cash burning and about when and how it will be forced to ask its creditors and shareholders for more money. All this following the unveiling of its latest electric vehicles.   At a glitzy event in California, Tesla unveiled its new...

Volkswagen Group is attempting to completely comply with the forthcoming stringent electric vehicle rules in China and for this purpose the German car maker is planning on an investment to the tune of 10 billion euros ($11.8 billion) by 2025 for the development and manufacture of all-electric and...

Due to its inherent “sexual” and “adult” nature, the sale of a pack of Christmas cards that has a robin redbreast has been blocked by Facebook.   Last month, when she discovered the reason that the social media company had refused approval of the product, she “could not stop...

A bill of materials (BOM) of $370.25 is carried by the new iPhone X, according to His Markit whose teardown engineers made a preliminary physical dissection of Apple’s latest creation. The engineers found that the model A1865 version of the smartphone has 64 gigabytes (GB) of NAND memory.  ...