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Apple may make iPhones in Indonesia. CEO Tim Cook continued his travels through Asia yesterday, meeting with Indonesian President Joko Widodo to talk about possible investments.
Eli Lillyâs weight-loss and diabetes drugs are officially in a shortage. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration said yesterday that most doses of Zepbound and Mounjaro are limited.
Bitcoin halving nerves are setting in. Investors are getting jittery before the big event scheduled for Friday, with the top cryptocurrency falling to $59,900 yesterday.
Boston Dynamics has a new electric robot. In introducing (the new) Atlas, the company promised it wasnât âa person in a bodysuitâ â presumably digging Tesla and its dancing, very human bot.
Superyacht sales arenât so super
The super-rich are keeping their distance from superyachts, at least for the moment.
17%: Decline in superyacht sales last year
203: Superyachts sold last year
650 feet (198 meters): Max length of a superyacht
40%: Decline in sales of the biggest superyachts last year
The change was in part due to backlogged waiting lists, rising prices, and oligarch sanctions in Russia. Quartzâs Francisco Velasquez has the latest.
Quotable: Boeingâs whistleblower doesnât trust 787 Dreamliners
âThe plane will fall apart at the joints weâre talking about. Once you fall apart, youâre gonna descend all the way to the ground.â â Boeing engineer Sam Salehpour in an interview with NBC News ahead of his testimony before the Senate yesterday.
Salehpour sounded alarms about potential issues with Boeingâs 787 Dreamliner plane, alleging that the model has flaws that could cause it to rip apart mid-air (claims that Boeing has dismissed). He wasnât the only one with harsh words about Boeing for the Senate â the words âcriminal coverupâ were thrown out.
In other Boeing news: United Airlines blamed the airplane maker for its most recent losses.
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