A solar-powered airplane finished crossing the United States on Saturday, landing in New York City after flying over the Statue of Liberty during its historic bid to circle the globe, the project team said. The spindly, single-seat experimental aircraft, dubbed Solar Impulse 2, arrived at New York's John F. Kennedy International Airport at about 4 a.m. local time after it took off about five hours beforehand at Lehigh Valley International Airport in Pennsylvania, the team reported on the airplane's website. Such a pleasure to land in New York! For the 14th time we celebrate sustainability," said the project's co-founder Andre Borschberg on Twitter after flying over the city and the Statue of Liberty during the 14th leg of the trip around the globe. The Swiss team flying the aircraft in a campaign to build support for clean energy technologies hopes eventually to complete its circumnavigation in Abu Dhabi, where the journey began in March 2015. The solar cr...
The MateBook is designed to be an alternative to laptops and is thinner than Microsoft's rival Surface Pro 4 thanks to its use of a USB-C port. The Chinese firm is already the world's third-bestselling mobile phone-maker, but until now had only made tablets powered by Android. Experts said it made good business sense to expand into the new category. However, there was no mention of the much-rumoured P9 smartphone at Huawei's event. Thinner, lighter The MateBook features a 12in (30.5cm) display and can be clipped into an add-on keyboard and used with a stylus. Its advantages over Microsoft's Surface Pro 4 are that it is: nearly 20% thinner, measuring 6.9mm (0.3in) deep about 20% lighter, weighing 630g (1.4lb) has a fingerprint sensor built into its side, unlike the Surface Pro which requires its cover to be attached to use the feature However, the disadvantages are that Huawei's machine is only offered with a sixth generation Core M pro...