Tom Cruise hangs upside down from a plane in the first trailer for ‘Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning.’ Here’s what we know about the sequel.
Tom Cruise as Ethan Hunt in “Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning.” “Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning” is the second part of the story that started in 2023’s “Dead Reckoning Part One,” which saw Ethan Hunt (Tom Cruise) race across the world to stop an all-powerful AI. The sequel is the eighth “Mission: Impossible”…
Boeing secured its first order after a 7-week strike — 80 737 Max jets
Avia Solutions Group is Boeing’s first customer since the end of the strike. Boeing has secured its first order since the end of a seven-week machinists’ strike. Avia Solutions Group announced Tuesday that it ordered 80 Boeing 737 Max jets, evenly split between firm orders and purchase rights. ASG describes itself as the world’s largest…
Apple is making it easier to find your lost luggage by letting you share AirTag tracking info with airlines
Apple’s Find My system will introduce a new Share Item Location feature. Apple’s newest AirTag feature is expected to make finding lost luggage a little easier for frequent fliers. The iPhone giant announced the introduction of a software feature that allows users to temporarily share the location of an AirTag or Find My network with…
China’s big air show opened with a glitzy aerial display of its fighters, but crowds couldn’t see much in the smog
The smog made maneuvers by China’s aerobatics teams unusually difficult to see, as the country seeks to shed its cities’ reputation for pollution. China’s biggest air exhibition opened on Tuesday to smoggy skies obscuring an intricate aerobatics performance meant to display the country’s aircraft to the world. The Bayi aerobatics team, a People’s Liberation Army…
Japanese carmakers are losing ground as China surges ahead in the EV race
Honda and its rivals are facing a growing headache over sales in China, the world’s largest car market. Japan’s iconic auto industry is going through a rough patch, with three of its most important companies reporting underwhelming earnings in the most recent quarter. Toyota, Nissan, and Honda all reported slumping profits. The three automakers are…
Dozens of passengers on 2 different flights to Japan fell ill with symptoms like vomiting and stomach pain
A United Airlines Boeing 737. Dozens of passengers fell ill with symptoms of food poisoning on United Airlines and Japan Airlines flights last Thursday. Both flights were traveling from Guam, an island in the western Pacific Ocean, to Tokyo Narita Airport. The Japanese national broadcaster NHK reported the illness affected 27 students and teachers from…
Russia’s inflation is so bad that potatoes cost 64% more than they did at the start of the year
Russia’s inflation continues surging despite central bank measures to control it. Russia’s economy has defied doomsday predictions more than 32 months into its full-scale invasion of Ukraine. But Russia’s red-hot wartime economy comes with a price: inflation, which hit 9.8% in September. The price hikes are trickling down to basic food items, with prices of…
Netflix, Hulu, and Amazon Prime Video subscribers are hitting ‘pause’ instead of canceling altogether
People are pausing streaming services like Netflix, Disney+, and Amazon Prime Video. I have broken up with and gotten back together with Hulu so many times over the years that it would probably make the cast members of “Vanderpump Rules” say we were in a toxic relationship. Once a year or so, I look at…
Trump wins stay in hush-money case, allowing him time to argue for its dismissal
Donald Trump Two weeks from his sentencing date, President-elect Donald Trump has won at least a temporary stay in his criminal hush-money case. New York Supreme Court Justice Juan Merchan agreed to stay all deadlines in the case for at least a week in a written decision Tuesday morning. Prosecutors with the office of Manhattan…
