By Christine Negroni Published 7:45 pm PDT, Friday, June 21, 2019 Olivia Mickevicius and Ahkeel Leach wrap up a preflight equipment check at the American Airlines Cadet Academy in Mesa, Ariz., where they are training to become pilots. Below: They use the flight simulator. Olivia Mickevicius and Ahkeel Leach wrap up a preflight equipment check at the American Airlines Cadet Academy in Mesa, Ariz., where they are training to become pilots. Below: They use the flight simulator. Photo: Photos By Caitlin O’Hara / New York Times Photo: Photos By Caitlin O’Hara / New York Times Image 1 of / 3 Caption Close Image 1 of 3 Olivia Mickevicius and Ahkeel Leach wrap up a preflight equipment check at the American Airlines Cadet Academy in Mesa, Ariz., where they are training to … [Read more...] about Airlines try new ways to build pilot ranks
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Competition will explore new ways to move people around Detroit
Ian Thibodeau The Detroit News Published 12:47 PM EDT Jun 20, 2019 A competition aims to pump more than $250,000 into Detroit to fund new ideas for the ways people will move around the city. Ford Motor Co. and officials from Detroit and Michigan announced Thursday the City:One Michigan Central Station Challenge. It was spun out of Ford's work with the Corktown community last year to craft a community benefits agreement with the neighborhood surrounding the long-blighted Michigan Central Depot that Ford plans to spend $740 million to rehabilitate. The building will be the centerpiece of a new Corktown campus where 5,000 Ford employees and Ford partners work on the automobiles and transportation modes of the future. Work there would include the company's autonomous vehicles business unit, electric vehicles and other future-oriented efforts, Ford has said. Ford, city and state officials said Thursday that they'd open the challenge Aug. 28 for residents and local … [Read more...] about Competition will explore new ways to move people around Detroit
After ‘peak iPhone’, Apple is on the hunt for new ways to take our money
Tom Hoggins Follow 29 January 2019 • 1:47pm We're falling out of love with the iPhone. Earlier this month, Apple's CEO Tim Cook warned of weaker than expected first-quarter earnings, blaming “fewer iPhone upgrades than we had anticipated.” But Apple still has tricks up its sleeve to part us with our money. Ahead of Apple's earnings, which will be announced later today, an intriguing report was released by tech business site Cheddar that said the company was exploring the possibility of a Netflix-like gaming subscription service. There was also the suggestion that Apple might start publishing games itself as it looks to broaden its booming services portfolio in the wake of shrinking iPhone sales. Gaming, after all, is the world’s biggest entertainment industry in terms of revenue. Why wouldn’t you want a slice? The thing is, Apple is already one of the biggest gaming companies in the world, even if the company … [Read more...] about After ‘peak iPhone’, Apple is on the hunt for new ways to take our money
How the Spider-Verse animators made it trippy
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By Charles Solomon New York Times Wed., Dec. 26, 2018 Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse follows the adventures of an Afro-Latino teenager, Miles Morales, who has been bitten by a radioactive spider in New York City and joins forces with other Spideys from alternate dimensions. It’s one of the animation surprises of the season: both a box office hit and a critical favourite (certified 97 per cent fresh on Rotten Tomatoes) that has been collecting awards, even winning best picture from the Utah Film Critics Association. One reason is the fresh animation style that sets it apart from the year’s other releases. Spider-Verse celebrates its print origins with bold graphics and mainstays of comic-book style, including thought balloons, printed words and wavy lines to indicate a tingling Spidey Sense. A.O. Scott, in his review for The Times, wrote that “the characters feel liberated by animation, and the audience will, too.” Many recent American … [Read more...] about How the Spider-Verse animators made it trippy
Why ‘Invasion of the Body Snatchers’ Still Haunts Its Director
The term “pod person” may have faded from the daily lexicon, but its basic definition (a soulless conformist; someone who acts strangely, almost mechanically) is alarmingly relevant today, according to filmmaker Philip Kaufman. Forty years after the Dec. 22, 1978 release of his critically acclaimed Invasion of the Body Snatchers remake, Kaufman connects the dots from his cinematic sci-fi treatise on pop psychology and paranoia to some of our more overt contemporary concerns in the age of President Donald Trump. “It’s as valid now as it was then, maybe more so,” Kaufman tells The Hollywood Reporter. “[Donald Sutherland’s pod shriek] at the end of the film could be a very Trumpian scream. The way Trump points to the press in the back of the auditorium and everybody turns, you get that scary ‘poddy’ feeling. There’s a kind of contagion that's going on here.” Based on Jack Finney’s 1954 serialized novel in … [Read more...] about Why ‘Invasion of the Body Snatchers’ Still Haunts Its Director