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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...