From commuting in air taxis to making regional flights more affordable and long-haul flights more environmentally friendly, electric planes hold a lot of promise. So as electric cars finally begin to gain popularity, why are planes so far behind? Some small electric planes have completed test flights, but most of the focus is on hybrid planes, especially for higher capacity long distance flights. Until then, companies like Uber are partnering with electric flight start-ups to experiment with air

Daisy Ridley as Rey in “Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker.” With the release of “The Rise of Skywalker” on Friday the nine-film epic has concluded, but that doesn’t mean the end of Star Wars. DisneyThe shorter, serialized episodes, with a succinct plot and lots of action, have appealed to Star Wars fans and casual TV watchers. It’s unclear if this format will be used for the other two live action Star Wars shows coming to Disney+. Disney | LucasfilmIn addition to these live action shows, Disney+

“A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity, an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty,” Churchill famously said. In the past decade, prosperity has improved in 148 countries and declined in only 19 of the 167 countries Legatum surveys, making up more than 99% of the world’s population. For the first time since the Industrial Revolution, about half of the global population can be considered middle class. Beyond that, about half of the world’s population now lives in democrac

“I have hold-backs,” Corcoran tells CNBC Make It, adding: “I think everybody is cheap in some way.” Here’s what these millionaires refuse to spend their hard-earned dollars on. In fact, he has yet to spend a dime of his “Tonight Show” money. Like Leno, he also doesn’t like to shell out a lot of money on clothes: “Designer clothing is one of those things that I will never spend money on. Barbara Corcoran won’t pay for first class

PNC: Slowdown in wages reflects underlying weakness in the UKThe U.K. is one or two economic data revisions away from being in a recession, says William Adams of PNC.

Enterprise Products: “It’s the only one of the pipeline companies that I’m still recommending.” Dropbox “Both Dropbox and Slack have become too hard for me because I really believe that Satya Nadella has it in for them. He’s the unbelievable CEO at Microsoft.” American International Group: “Oh, don’t put AIG in the same sentence as Carson Wentz. Carson Wentz is a winner.”

With Christmas and Hanukkah nigh, CNBC’s Jim Cramer on Friday outlined a wish list that he hopes the market will deliver investors in the new year. Six more trading days remain in 2019, and the “Mad Money” host deemed it a “fantastic year,” in which the Dow Jones Industrial Average has climbed almost 22%, the S&P 500 has expanded 28.50% and the Nasdaq Composite has rallied 34.51%. He expects more to come. “That’s why I’m going to give you the list … of a dozen presents I’m hoping for, because

Democratic presidential hopeful former Vice President Joe Biden speaks during the sixth Democratic primary debate of the 2020 presidential campaign season co-hosted by PBS NewsHour & Politico at Loyola Marymount University in Los Angeles, California on December 19, 2019. A longtime fundraiser for President Barack Obama who recently helped former Texas Rep. Beto O’Rourke in his bid for president is opening his donor network to former Vice President Joe Biden. Louis Susman, a former U.S. ambassado

Carnival Cruise CEO Arnold W. Donald told CNBC on Friday that there are no major injuries reported after two of the company’s ships collided hours earlier near the port of Cozumel, Mexico. There are six minor injuries reported, which Donald said occurred as “people tried to leave the dining room.” “We will do a deep investigation on this,” Donald said, adding the company takes seriously its responsibility for safety. People who have booked future trips on either ship involved — the Carnival Glor

Pedestrians pass in front of a Slack Technologies signage displayed outside of the New York Stock Exchange during the company’s initial public offering in New York, on Thursday, June 20, 2019. The Securities and Exchange Commission is investigating the market debuts of certain initial public offerings, including Slack, the Wall Street Journal reported on Friday. The SEC requested electronic messages and emails from right before Slack started trading from electronic-trading firm Citadel Securitie

It’s been 25 years since Mariah Carey’s “All I Want for Christmas Is You” debuted, but the iconic Christmas song finally reached the No. Not bad for a song whose famous melody was a “happy accident,” said Carey in Amazon Music’s recent documentary, “Mariah Carey is Christmas: The Story of ‘All I Want for Christmas is You.'” It’s true the basic song only took an hour to write, then a week of two of finessing the lyrics, Afanasieff told Billboard. She wasn’t sure an original Christmas song from a

Continuing its streak of steady surprises releases, Apple Arcade has one more goodie for its subscribers before the holidays: Lego Builder’s Journey, a more meditative take on the Lego universe. Where most Lego games adapt existing properties into an action romp, Builder’s Journey tries for a more artistic approach. Lego Builder’s Journey is “poetic” puzzle game about “connections,” according to the App Store description. Related Apple Arcade gets a discounted annual subscriptionNotably, Lego Bu

Andrzej Sapkowski, author of The Witcher series of novels, and CD Projekt Red, developer of The Witcher series of video games, have signed a new licensing agreement. In that revealing conversation, the author said that when CD Projekt approached him about The Witcher video game, which was released in 2008, he dismissed the industry outright. At the time CD Projekt wrote in an official statement to its investors that his demands were “groundless.” In a brief press release issued today, CD Projekt

Chewbacca, Poe Dameron, Finn and Rey pilot the Millenium Falcon in “Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker.” Despite harsh critical reception, “Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker” had a stellar Thursday night. The film, the ninth and final installment in the Skywalker saga, hauled in $40 million in preview showings, becoming the fifth-highest grossing Thursday night preview in U.S. cinematic history. The film holds a 58% score on Rotten Tomatoes, from just under 300 reviews, but fans have been a bit mor

United Airlines is pulling the Boeing 737 Max from its schedule through June 4, a date that is two months later than when other U.S. airlines plan to resume flights of the troubled planes. Just last month, United said it would target bringing the Max back in early March. In the last week, American Airlines and Southwest Airlines both pushed their respective target dates for resuming 737 Max flights into early April. That news prompted Boeing to announce it will temporarily halt 737 Max productio

Health-care stocks are soaring this quarter, and one part of the sector is having its best winning streak on record. That’s its longest win streak on record. Baruch notes an upward channel stretching back to 2015 that suggests biotech should continue to trend higher. Baruch adds that the upward channel leads him to believe the XBI ETF moves as high as $109 in 2020. The XBI ETF struggled to break above $95 until this month.

At age 17, Elon Musk left his home in South Africa and moved to Canada, where he enrolled at Queen’s University in Kingston, Ontario. After an economics exam, Musk, Farooq and their other classmates compared notes to try to estimate their exam scores, when it became clear that Musk had a much better handle on the material than the rest. “He would call very insistently,” Justine Musk, Elon’s first wife, told author Vance about dating Musk in college. She and Musk took the same abnormal psychology

So that’s very important,” said President Donald Trump on Dec. 7 from the South Lawn of the White House. Were Democratic candidate for president Andrew Yang to debate Trump on the economy, Yang said he would highlight the toxicity of the environment in which the economy has been flourishing. Student loan debt, record highs,” Yang told podcast Freakonomics in an episode published Wednesday. “And so you have to ask,” said Yang “‘What good are corporate profits if people are literally dying earlier

Fortunately, these coping strategies have helped pull me out of the holiday blues, and I hope they can do the same for you:1. It can be a close friend or someone you used to be close with, but have since lost touch with. After I lost a good friend of mine, I organized a gathering of people who were also close to that friend. Count your current blessingsWhen we lose someone we love, it’s temping to only focus on the negative things. Acknowledging the good things in your life is one of the greates

As the founder and CEO of a fast-growing company, Hint, it’s not often possible for me to fully disconnect over the holidays. In fact, I always follow these five rules to stay sane and stress-free:1. If I know I have to check-in at the office, I’ll let my family know as far in advance as possible. You can communicate to your colleagues, for example, that you’ll only be checking work email a few hours a day. And, if you are the boss, consider allowing employees who work over the holidays to do th