Model Airplanes

Finally, the tablet part snaps magnetically to the top half of the keyboard, like this (below left). At this point, you can raise the screen to any reasonable angle (right):

It’s quick, satisfying, and fun to do. It also has an incredibly strong grip. You can carry the whole thing by the screen or by the keyboard part: It doesn’t come apart.

That is something you definitely don’t want to try with a Surface or iPad Pro.

And since both pieces are metal, and the keyboard is a real keyboard, you can type anywhere you’d type with a keyboard, including balancing the Pixel C on your knees.

All of this weighs only a pound, which is startlingly light. The Pixel C is also surprisingly small. Here it is on a piece of paper:

This thing was born for the airplane tray in coach. Let the guy in front of you recline—what do you care?

The guts

The keyboard keys travel just as much as they would on a real laptop. They’re almost as big as a laptop’s — just fractionally closer together. It takes a few minutes of adjustment, and then you’re typing away at full speed.

The keyboard communicates with the tablet via Bluetooth (no pairing is necessary). That’s good, because it means there are no little connectors to line up when you’re attaching it. But that’s also bad, because it means the keyboard requires its own battery. Still, that’s OK, because

Article source: https://www.yahoo.com/tech/google-s-pixel-c-reviewed-1316959753019446.html

The first Boeing 737 MAX rolled off a spanking-new assembly line in Renton last week, and on Tuesday morning it emerged in a teal-colored livery from the paint hangar for a celebratory unveiling before up to 8,000 first-shift employees.

Until this year, the Renton plant housed two highly productive assembly lines, each churning out 21 single-aisle jets per month. In a rabbit-out-of-the-hat transformation, Boeing has now fitted within the same factory space a third assembly line for this new jet — one big enough to accommodate seven 737s nose to tail.

“The complexity of this is not so much the changes in the airplane itself, but more about how you weave this new airplane into a factory that’s been producing (the current 737) for 19 years now,” Keith Leverkuhn, vice president of the 737 MAX program, said in an interview Monday.

Without pausing its breakneck production pace of 42 jets per month, Boeing cleared space for the MAX by consolidating all the subassemblies that feed into the assembly lines and creating a highly automated and efficient fixture for installing the systems inside the empty fuselages that arrive from Spirit AeroSystems in Wichita, Kan.

In parallel, Boeing automated its wing manufacturing in an adjacent building to handle further production-rate increases.

Yet as the first finished MAX debuted Tuesday, Boeing faces a tough reality: Arriving

Article source: http://www.seattletimes.com/business/boeing-aerospace/boeing-unveils-the-first-737-max-and-its-new-production-line/

LE BOURGET — The St.-Denis area has an image problem.

St.-Denis is the northern suburb where one of the planners of the Paris terrorist attacks died in a police raid. Another attacker lived nearby, in Drancy; yet another rented a flat in neighboring Bobigny. A little further to the east is Clichy-sous-Bois, where riots started in 2005.

These suburbs are all part of Seine-St.-Denis, a tiny, densely populated administrative area northeast of Paris that is known for its leftist politics, its large immigrant population and, now, its links to extremist violence. (It is often referred to as the 93, after the first two digits of its postal codes.) The local annual income here is 16,000 euros, about $17,500, compared with the national average of 22,000 euros, or about $24,100. The unemployment rate is 13 percent, compared to the national average of around 10 percent.

Seine-St.-Denis is also home to Le Bourget, the suburb where the United Nations climate conference is being held. Local officials had hoped that the climate conference, also known as COP 21, would give its 40,000 visitors a more balanced sense of the area, and help it shed its rough image.

But with a national state of emergency still in effect, the Parc des Expositions, the convention center where the talks are being held, has become a tightly guarded fortress.

Shuttle buses take the throngs of negotiators, activists, scientists and journalists here directly to and from the nearby Métro and suburban train stations. Another

Article source: http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/projects/cp/climate/2015-paris-climate-talks/cana-tech-breakthrough-save-the-planet

LE BOURGET — The St.-Denis area has an image problem.

St.-Denis is the northern suburb where one of the planners of the Paris terrorist attacks died in a police raid. Another attacker lived nearby, in Drancy; yet another rented a flat in neighboring Bobigny. A little further to the east is Clichy-sous-Bois, where riots started in 2005.

These suburbs are all part of Seine-St.-Denis, a tiny, densely populated administrative area northeast of Paris that is known for its leftist politics, its large immigrant population and, now, its links to extremist violence. (It is often referred to as the 93, after the first two digits of its postal codes.) The local annual income here is 16,000 euros, about $17,500, compared with the national average of 22,000 euros, or about $24,100. The unemployment rate is 13 percent, compared to the national average of around 10 percent.

Seine-St.-Denis is also home to Le Bourget, the suburb where the United Nations climate conference is being held. Local officials had hoped that the climate conference, also known as COP 21, would give its 40,000 visitors a more balanced sense of the area, and help it shed its rough image.

But with a national state of emergency still in effect, the Parc des Expositions, the convention center where the talks are being held, has become a tightly guarded fortress.

Shuttle buses take the throngs of negotiators, activists, scientists and journalists here directly to and from the nearby Métro and suburban train stations. Another

Article source: http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/projects/cp/climate/2015-paris-climate-talks/paris-climate-talks-highlights-from-the-start-of-2nd-week

LE BOURGET — The St.-Denis area has an image problem.

St.-Denis is the northern suburb where one of the planners of the Paris terrorist attacks died in a police raid. Another attacker lived nearby, in Drancy; yet another rented a flat in neighboring Bobigny. A little further to the east is Clichy-sous-Bois, where riots started in 2005.

These suburbs are all part of Seine-St.-Denis, a tiny, densely populated administrative area northeast of Paris that is known for its leftist politics, its large immigrant population and, now, its links to extremist violence. (It is often referred to as the 93, after the first two digits of its postal codes.) The local annual income here is 16,000 euros, about $17,500, compared with the national average of 22,000 euros, or about $24,100. The unemployment rate is 13 percent, compared to the national average of around 10 percent.

Seine-St.-Denis is also home to Le Bourget, the suburb where the United Nations climate conference is being held. Local officials had hoped that the climate conference, also known as COP 21, would give its 40,000 visitors a more balanced sense of the area, and help it shed its rough image.

But with a national state of emergency still in effect, the Parc des Expositions, the convention center where the talks are being held, has become a tightly guarded fortress.

Shuttle buses take the throngs of negotiators, activists, scientists and journalists here directly to and from the nearby Métro and suburban train stations. Another

Article source: http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/projects/cp/climate/2015-paris-climate-talks/russians-embrace-nanotechnology-as-one-path-to-lower-emissions

LE BOURGET — The St.-Denis area has an image problem.

St.-Denis is the northern suburb where one of the planners of the Paris terrorist attacks died in a police raid. Another attacker lived nearby, in Drancy; yet another rented a flat in neighboring Bobigny. A little further to the east is Clichy-sous-Bois, where riots started in 2005.

These suburbs are all part of Seine-St.-Denis, a tiny, densely populated administrative area northeast of Paris that is known for its leftist politics, its large immigrant population and, now, its links to extremist violence. (It is often referred to as the 93, after the first two digits of its postal codes.) The local annual income here is 16,000 euros, about $17,500, compared with the national average of 22,000 euros, or about $24,100. The unemployment rate is 13 percent, compared to the national average of around 10 percent.

Seine-St.-Denis is also home to Le Bourget, the suburb where the United Nations climate conference is being held. Local officials had hoped that the climate conference, also known as COP 21, would give its 40,000 visitors a more balanced sense of the area, and help it shed its rough image.

But with a national state of emergency still in effect, the Parc des Expositions, the convention center where the talks are being held, has become a tightly guarded fortress.

Shuttle buses take the throngs of negotiators, activists, scientists and journalists here directly to and from the nearby Métro and suburban train stations. Another

Article source: http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/projects/cp/climate/2015-paris-climate-talks/ban-ki-moon-un-climate-change