Kitty Hawk’s New Flying Car Promises a (Near) Silent Flight

Kitty Hawk, Larry Page’s air taxi outfit, on Thursday showed off its latest concept—an eight-motor prototype that uses an unconventional forward-swept wing, and is purportedly 100 times quieter than a conventional helicopter. The Mountain View, California-based company calls it Heaviside, after noted physicist and electrical […]

Milano, scende in campo la Sovrintendenza: “San Siro ha valore architettonico”

“La demolizione non è l’unica opzione per il Meazza: valutate ipotesi alternative come l’adeguamento e la trasformazione dell’impianto”. Era l’ultima voce che, nella tormentata partita dello stadio, mancava ancora all’appello. Ma adesso anche la Sovrintendenza ha preso una posizione. E il parere che è stato […]

How ‘the Internet broke America’ with The New Yorker’s Andrew Marantz

When Elizabeth Warren took on Mark Zuckerberg and Facebook earlier this week, it was a low moment for what New Yorker writer Andrew Marantz calls “techno-utopianism.” That the progressive, populist Massachusetts Senator and leading Democratic Presidential candidate wants to #BreakUpBigTech is not surprising. But Warren’s […]