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THE LATEST FLYING CAR CONCEPT SEEMS—DARE WE SAY IT—SERIOUS THE PARIS AIRSHOW  kicks off Monday, offering the denizens of the aviation world their biennial chance to gather round. They'll ogle the latest aerospace innovations, close deals for defense drones, and check out private jets.  Airbus  and  Boeing  will go head-to-head over over sales numbers as aircraft new and old—including the F35A fighter jet, making its public debut—roar overhead, flaunting their flying skills. Oh, and because at some point in the past few months everyone decided personal aircraft are a real thing, Paris will feature flying cars. One early reveal comes from Neva Aerospace, a UK-based consortium made up of five European companies that focus on all sorts of electric aviation, from  drones  to aerial robotic platforms. Now these folks want to build a passenger-carrying vehicle. The AirQuadOne is just a concept at this stage, but you can tell it’s the future becau...

THE WHITE HOUSE TECH SUMMIT TACKLES A SPRAWLING AGENDA WHAT A DIFFERENCE  six months can make. In December 2016, tech’s most famous faces  flocked  to Trump Tower for their first round table with then-President-elect Donald Trump. The meeting had a  genial tone , as tech leaders joked with Trump and seemed committed to playing nice and working toward the greater good. In the time since then, though the president has repeatedly attempted to  ban  Muslim immigration to the United States, announced plans to  pull out  of the Paris Agreement to address climate change, and proposed deep cuts to spending on scientific research and development. And Trump's actions have created an at-best uncomfortable and at-worst adversarial relationship between tech bigwigs and his administration. Which should make today’s inaugural meeting of the American Technology Council all the more fascinating. Organized by the Office of American Innovation, which is he...

FOR EIGHT MONTHS,  the hacker group known as Shadow Brokers has trickled out an intermittent drip of highly classified NSA data. Now, just when it seemed like that trove of secrets might be exhausted, the group has spilled a new batch. The latest dump appears to show that the NSA has penetrated deep into the finance infrastructure of the Middle East—a revelation that could create new scandals for the world’s most well-resourced spy agency. Friday morning, the Shadow Brokers published documents that—if legitimate—show just how thoroughly US intelligence has compromised elements of the global banking system. The new leak includes evidence that the NSA hacked into EastNets, a Dubai-based firm that oversees payments in the global SWIFT transaction system for dozens of client banks and other firms, particularly in the Middle East. The leak includes detailed lists of hacked or potentially targeted computers, including those belonging to firms in Qatar, Dubai, Abu Dhabi, Syria, Yeme...

  Russian experts are going to carry out "observation flights" by Tu-154M LK-1 aircraft over the US and Canada, a senior official of the Russian Defense Ministry said on Monday. Sergei Ryzhkov, head of the Nuclear Risk Reduction Center, said that within the framework of the international Treaty on Open Skies, Russian aircraft will conduct observation flights over the US on April 10-15 from Open Skies airfield Write-Patterson and over Canada on April 18-22 from Iqaluit of Canada. Ryzhkov said the Russian aircraft will follow an agreed route, and US and Canadian specialists will be on board to ensure the observation equipment will be used in compliance with the Treaty. The Treaty on Open Skies was signed in March 1992 and became one of the major confidence-building measures in Europe after the Cold War. It took effect in 2002 and currently has 34 state parties, including Russia and most members of the North Atlantic Treaty Orga...

The man who shot and killed a deputy constable outside Houston one week ago, sparking a manhunt, actually killed himself the next day with the same weapon, police revealed Monday. The deputy, 57-year-old Clint Greenwood, was killed on April 3 as he arrived to work in Baytown, after the gunman stepped out from behind a trash bin and opened fire, police said. Greenwood had worked in Harris County for 30 years,  Fox 26 reported . Officers on Monday identified the shooter as 64-year-old William Kenny of Houston. Police would not talk about a possible motive, but sources  told the Houston Chronicle  he complained to the sheriff's department and may have harbored a grudge about how the department handled it. WISCONSIN POLICE OFFICER TO ADOPT DOG FOUND TIED TO A TREE ...

"To the American people, I am humbled by the trust placed in me today," Gorsuch said after taking the oath. "I will never forget to whom much is given to much will be expected, and I promise you that I will do all my powers permit to be a faithful servant of the Constitution and laws of this great nation." At the ceremony, President Trump called Gorsuch a man of "unmatched qualification" and "deeply devoted" to the Constitution. "I have no doubt you will rise to the occasion, and the decisions you make will protect our Constitution today and for many generations of Americans to come," he said. Earlier, Gorsuch took the Constitutional Oath in a private ceremony, administered by Chief Justice John Roberts in the Supreme Court’s Justice’s ...