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LONDON— Boeing Co. BA -4.95% won a key order for 737 MAX aircraft from the owner of British Airways, ICAGY -3.21% in a boost for the plane maker after losing a series of sales from longtime customers to rival Airbus EADSY -3.15% SE. International Consolidated Airlines Group SA, which owns airlines including BA, Ireland’s Aer Lingus…

YouTube will now highlight the “most replayed” parts of videos in its web player and mobile apps. The feature was previously available as an experiment for YouTube Premium subscribers but is launching for all users today. You’ll be able to identify the most popular parts of a video from a graph that appears behind its progress bar. Says YouTube: “If the graph is high, then that part of the video has been replayed often. You can use the graph to quickly find and watch those moments.” “most-replayed” will be another…

Flight data indicates someone in the cockpit intentionally crashed a China Eastern jet earlier this year, according to people familiar with U.S. officials’ preliminary assessment of what led to the accident. The Boeing 737-800 was cruising at high altitude when it suddenly pitched into a near-vertical descent, plummeting into a mountain at extreme speed. Data from a black box recovered in the crash suggests inputs to the controls pushed the plane into the fatal dive, these people said.…

Samsung’s next two foldable smartphones will arrive sometime in the second half of the year, and the latest report from The Elec cites industry sources that Samsung Electronics has begun mass production of core components for the Samsung Galaxy Z Fold4 and Galaxy Z Flip4 (both tentative names). In addition, Samsung will reportedly begin producing the foldables as soon as mid-June. Samsung Galaxy Z Fold3 Reports estimate that Samsung is expecting to produce more than 10 million combined foldable units between the Flip…

LONDON—The chief executive of Ryanair Holdings PLC, one of Boeing biggest customers, took aim at the planemaker’s sales team and its 737 MAX delivery schedule and said the company needed to reboot its commercial-aircraft division.Michael O’Learyalso questioned Boeing’s pending shift of its headquarters from Chicago to Virginia. While the move “may be good for the defense side of the business, it doesn’t fix the fundamental underlying problems on the civilian aircraft side in Seattle,” Mr. O’Leary told analysts on a…

The startups and investors that have sent hopes soaring for “flying cars” could be in for a rough landing, in more ways than one.Hundreds of companies, new ones and legacy aviation players alike, are working on such vehicles—also called air taxis or eVTOLs (short for electric vertical take off and landing). Five such startups have gone public in the past 12 months. They are trying to shape a near future in which taking a flying cab is an economically viable alternative to taking a terrestrial one. The biggest stumbling…

Amprius Technologies Inc. has reached a deal with a special-purpose acquisition company that values the maker of silicon-anode batteries at about $1.3 billion and would take it public, company officials said. Based in Fremont, Calif., Amprius makes batteries that it says are more powerful than conventional lithium-ion cells because they use energy-dense silicon in the battery’s anode instead of graphite, the traditional material. The company currently sells them to customers such as…

Southwest Airlines Co. LUV -2.05% played a bigger behind-the-scenes role in developing early Boeing BA -4.58% 737 MAX pilot training than previously known, according to a recent legal filing that cites internal Southwest and Boeing company documents.During the development of 737 MAX training, the carrier agreed with Boeing to remove from pilot manuals references to a version of the automated flight-control system that…

NASA’s costly rocket program could be the last time the agency mounts such an effort, according to some former NASA officials and space industry executives, as private space companies attempt to build cheaper vehicles more quickly.Next month, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration plans another round of tests for a rocket built under its Space Launch System program, as the agency’s moon-rocket effort is called, and other hardware. NASA intends to use SLS rockets as part of missions to return astronauts to the…

Employees work at the Tesla Gigafactory in Shanghai, east China, Nov. 20, 2020. U.S. electric car company Tesla in 2019 built its first Gigafactory outside the United States in the new Lingang area, with a designed annual production capacity of 500,000 units.Ding Ting | Xinhua News Agency | Getty ImagesTesla reduced vehicle production at its Shanghai factory this week due to parts shortages caused in part by a supplier's Covid lockdown.According to JL Warren Capital CEO and Director of Research Junheng Li, a Covid case…