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As 53 undelivered jetliners sat parked outside Boeing’s Renton, Wash., plant last week, up from just over 40 a month ago, workers inside the factory felt the pressure of constant overtime and an unrelenting buildup of unfinished tasks. Though the company assured Wall Street analysts visiting Seattle that the pileup of Boeing 737 jets has peaked and will be sorted out by year-end, some front-line workers were less optimistic.

Planes awaiting delivery filled the ramps along the edges of Renton Municipal Airport, spilled onto one of the taxiways, and were parked on all available spaces on the Boeing site, along the lakefront and between the buildings.

Of those, 38 were the new 737 MAX model, 14 of them missing their engines. Delays in delivering the MAX model’s new LEAP engines, made by CFM International, are just one of the choke points causing the pileup.

Two workers said the engine supply is noticeably improving. Yet shortages of other parts mean the amount of unfinished work on the jets rolling out in Renton is still growing.

Internal Boeing documents showing detailed operational data viewed by the Seattle Times indicate that on Aug. 30, Boeing Renton was roughly 26,600 jobs behind schedule. A week later, Sept. 6, that total had swelled to about 31,000 jobs behind schedule.

One worker said Boeing has set a daunting target of no more than 50 jobs behind schedule per airplane under assembly by the end of October, which would be a total of about 1,500 jobs.

Those totals include final assembly, wings fabrication

Article source: https://pilotonline.com/business/consumer/article_933aad5a-1f94-50b3-9e25-a290b1410138.html

In this week’s top stories: We offer more details on the Apple Watch Series 4 and iPhone Xs, Apple promotes iOS 12 to existing iPhone and iPad users, renders show off the new iPad Pros coming later this year, and more. Read on for all of this week’s biggest stories and more.

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First off, we reported on Wednesday that the 6.5-inch OLED iPhone set to be introduced next week will likely be called the ‘iPhone Xs Max.’ According to two sources familiar with Apple’s marketing plans, it will be using ‘Max’ this year instead of ‘Plus,’ which Bloomberg had previously suggested.

Additionally, we offered more details on the Apple Watch Series 4, reporting that the 42mm model will likely feature a resolution of 384×480. This is a significant upgrade compared to the 312×390 resolution of the current Apple With Series 3, and will allow applications to show much more content on the display.

Ahead of the public release of iOS 12 later this month, Apple on Thursday started promoting the update to all iPhone and iPad users. This promotion comes in the form of a notification from the built-in Tips app, which takes users to a “sneak peek” at iOS 12.

As for the 2018 iPhones, a somewhat sketchy report this week suggested that the 6.1-inch LCD iPhone will start at around $699, while the 5.8 iPhone Xs might start at $800. The iPhone Xs Max, meanwhile, would then start at $999

Article source: https://9to5mac.com/2018/09/08/this-weeks-top-stories-more-iphone-xs-apple-watch-series-4-details-2018-ipad-pro-renders-more/

Machine learning and analytics platform vendor Cloudera has appointed Tech Data as its first distributor across Australia and New Zealand (A/NZ).

The choice was a simple one, according to recently appointed country manager for A/NZ Nick Hoskins, and took into account three key points.

“Firstly, they are part of a global billion-dollar business and they are a well-known brand and very highly regarded distributor, certainly in A/NZ,” Hoskins told ARN. “What is really interesting to us is that Tech Data brings a lot of tools and intelligence to the local channel community.

“Such experience is going to help us identify new routes to market with specialist companies and that could be either existing or emerging providers in the big data arena.”

Under the agreement, Tech Data will have access to the vendor’s solutions across data centre, cloud, analytics, security and mobility portfolios.

As Facebook grew, Zuckerberg and his executives adopted a core belief: even if people criticized your decisions, they would eventually come around. In one of the first demonstrations of that idea, in 2006, Facebook introduced the News Feed, a feature that suddenly alerted friends whenever a user changed profile pictures, joined groups, or altered a relationship status. (Until then, users had to visit a friend’s page to see updates.) Users revolted. There was a street protest at the headquarters, and hundreds of thousands of people joined a Facebook group opposing the change. Zuckerberg posted a tepid apology (“Calm down. Breathe. We hear you.”), and people got used to the feed.

“A lot of the early experience for me was just having people really not believe that what we were going to do was going to work,” Zuckerberg told me. “If you think about the early narratives, it was, like, ‘Well, this was just a college thing.’ Or ‘It’s not gonna be a big deal.’ Or ‘O.K., other people are using it, but it’s kind of a fad. There’s Friendster and there’s MySpace, and there will be something after,’ or whatever.” He added, “I feel like it really tests you emotionally to have constant doubt, and the assertion that you don’t know what you are doing.”

In 2006, Zuckerberg made his most unpopular decision at the fledgling company. Yahoo was offering a billion

Article source: https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2018/09/17/can-mark-zuckerberg-fix-facebook-before-it-breaks-democracy

As 53 undelivered jetliners sat parked outside Boeing’s Renton plant this week, up from just over 40 a month ago, workers inside the factory were feeling the pressure of constant overtime and an unrelenting build-up of unfinished tasks. Though Boeing assured Wall Street analysts visiting Seattle Wednesday that the pile-up of 737 jets has peaked and will be sorted out by year end, some frontline workers were less optimistic.

Planes awaiting delivery filled the ramps along the edges of Renton Municipal Airport on Tuesday, spilled onto one of the taxiways, and were parked on all available spaces on the Boeing site, along the lakefront and between the buildings.

Of those, 38 were the new 737 MAX model, 14 of them missing their engines. Delays in delivering the MAX model’s new LEAP engines, made by CFM International, are just one of the choke points causing the pile-up.