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→ Break out your American-flag shirt and grab your passport, because NASCAR is headed to France for the 24 Hours of Le Mans. The crossover isn’t as strange as it might seem. American sports-car teams have long been vying for glory on the Mulsanne Straight at the famed endurance race, but NASCAR has only been to Le Mans once before. Each year, the Automobile Club de l’Ouest (ACO) welcomes a team to Le Mans to participate in the Garage 56 program, an exhibition class created in 2012 to encourage technical innovation. Past G56 racers have run on alternative fuels or featured cockpits equipped for disabled drivers, with two teams from the latter category being the only G56 entries to have ever finished the race. For 2023, the ACO invited NASCAR to…

No matter how careful you are, accidents and hard landings are a normal—if disappointing—part of the hobby. There’s no reason, however, to trash your foam crash! This article will show you how to get back into the air with very little effort. You also can save some cash by repairing your bent bird instead of buying new parts or an entirely new airplane. WHAT’S NEEDED You’ll need a hobby knife with sharp replacement blades, some masking tape, a sanding bar with medium sandpaper (100 to 150 grit), and some fine 220-grit sandpaper. For glue, you’ll need 15-minute two-part epoxy, foam-safe CA adhesive, and foam-safe accelerator. Denatured alcohol is good for cleaning the surface of the foam and for cleaning up excess epoxy from repairs. REMOVING DENTS STEP 1 STEP 2 STEP 3 STEP 4 STEP 5 STEP 6 MENDING BROKEN…

If you lived through the 1990s, you know it was a fascinating era. From cars to pop culture to politics and more, we can’t come close to reminding you of everything significant that occurred—but we can highlight some of the key cars, moments, and talking points that defined the decade. 1990 • MotorTrend Car of the Year: Lincoln Town Car • MotorTrend Import Car of the Year: Nissan 300ZX • MotorTrend Truck of the Year: Ford Aerostar 4WD • Best Picture: Dances with Wolves • Song of the Year Grammy: “Wind Beneath My Wings” (Bette Midler) New Vehicles and MotorTrend First Drives • Honda Accord (fourth generation) • Dodge Stealth/Mitsubishi 3000GT • Geo Storm • Acura NSX • GMC Syclone • Saturn S-Series Events • Smoking banned on domestic airline flights • Police beating of Rodney King prompts Los Angeles riots • Iraq invades Kuwait, leading to…

Google this week disclosed plans to infuse its dominant search engine with more advanced artificial-intelligence technology, a drive that’s in response to one of the biggest threats to its long-established position as the internet’s main gateway. The gradual shift in how Google’s search engine runs is rolling out three months after Microsoft’s Bing search engine started to tap into technology similar to that which powers the artificially intelligent chatbot ChatGPT, which has created one of Silicon Valley’s biggest buzzes since Apple released the first iPhone 16 years ago. Google, which is owned by Alphabet Inc., already has been testing its own conversational chatbot called Bard. That product, powered by technology called generative AI that also fuels ChatGPT, has only been available to people accepted from a waitlist. But Google announced that Bard…

“Maybe we were led to expect too much.” Even on the first page of the first test of GM’s all-new Saturn in our November 1990 issue, the sense of disappointment was palpable. For years, we’d been told Saturn would be a wondercar built in a factory of the future, something that would show the world Detroit could build a better small car than the Japanese for less money. GM boss Roger B. Smith insisted in 1985 that Saturn would be “a complete, radical change from anything going on anywhere in auto manufacturing.” But from behind the wheel of the early-build sedans and coupes we sampled at the GM Proving Ground in Milford, Michigan, in the fall of 1990, it certainly didn’t feel that way. “We came away from the experience somewhat…

I’ve never felt the need to choose between the iPad and the Mac. I use and value them both. But over the last few years, it’s started to feel like both the Mac and the iPad are increasingly limited by an artificial barrier that Apple has placed between them. The iPad has slowly become more Mac-like without ever really reaching the promised land. The Mac, meanwhile, has failed to pick up many desirable features from the iPad. I admire the discipline Apple has had in keeping its product lines separate, but it feels like that decision is starting to harm the futures of both products. The Mac and the iPad are on a collision course, and I’m concerned that they’re both about to run into the brick wall Apple has erected between…

Over the last few months, AI chatbots have exploded in popularity off the surging success of OpenAI’s revolutionary ChatGPT—which, amazingly, only burst onto the scene around December. But when Microsoft seized the opportunity to hitch its wagon to OpenAI’s rising star for a steep $10 billion dollars, it chose to do so by introducing a GPT-4–powered chatbot under the guise of Bing, its swell-but-also-ran search engine, in a bid to upend Google’s search dominance. Google quickly followed suit with its own homegrown Bard AI. Both are touted as experiments. And these “AI chatbots” are truly wondrous advancements—I’ve spent many nights with my kids joyously creating fantastic stuff-of-your-dreams artwork with Bing Chat’s Dall-E integration and prompting sick raps about wizards who think lizards are the source of all magic, and seeing them…

AT THE INVESTMENT firm I started five years ago, Unorthodox Ventures, we see a constant stream of founders asking for funding. Unfortunately, some of them leave us feeling like we've just sat through some bizarre theater of the absurd production. Absurdist plays—Waiting for Godot is a famous example—explore reality versus illusion. They ask whether existence has meaning, and they leave you questioning where truth can be found, if anywhere. In other words, they're a lot like many investor decks, where founders’ assurances of imminent hockey-stick growth leave the audience wondering where the truth really lies, and what is the point— if there is one—in these swaggering presentations. If only founders would realize, among other things, that it's ridiculous to claim your total addressable market is potentially everyone on earth—unless maybe your product is…

ONLY A SELECT FEW get the chance to escape Earth’s bubble, fewer will set foot on another orb, and fewer still will sit at the helm of a spacecraft. Of the 18 travelers NASA has tapped for its Artemis missions, which will bring people to the moon for the first time in more than a half-century, it is the pilot who must ferry the crew safely, pulling off historic landing maneuvers in an untried spaceship. A likely candidate to sit in that chair is Victor J. Glover, who’s spent much of his 20-year career soaring across the heavens as a Navy test pilot and is among a new generation of astronauts aiming to create a permanent base camp on the moon’s surface. Artemis 3, which NASA intends to launch in 2025,…

En los últimos años han sido bastantes los conductores de un Lexus que me han dicho, con absoluto convencimiento, que era el mejor coche que habían tenido nunca. Todos ellos superaban los 50 años y habían sido poseedores de varios modelos premium, por lo que tenían argumentos para comparar. Por encima de todo destacaban la sensación de calma y tranquilidad al volante que les transmitía su Lexus. Al ponerme al volante del RZ no puedo evitar pensar en esa sensación que me explicaban los clientes de la marca y en cuál sería su opinión si condujesen este eléctrico. Seguramente se quedarían sorprendidos al ver el volante tipo avión del sistema de dirección electrónica One Motion Grip, pero aceptarían la novedad con curiosidad y un poco de respeto, como lo hacemos nosotros.…

Almost everyone knows Steve Jobs’ uncanny vision, relentless drive and technological wizardry hatched the iPhone, a breakthrough that continues to reshape culture 16 years after the late Apple co-founder introduced the device to the world. But when Jobs unveiled the first iPhone in 2007, another smartphone was the must-have gadget. It was the BlackBerry, a device so addictive that it became known as the “CrackBerry” among tech nerds and power brokers hunched over a tiny keyboard that was best operated with both thumbs clickety-clacking. Now the BlackBerry is “that phone people had before they bought an iPhone,” a relic so irrelevant that the Canadian company that made it is now valued at $3 billion — down from $85 billion at its 2008 peak when it still controlled nearly half of the smartphone…

THIS moment for artificial intelligence is unlike any that has come before. Powerful language-based AIs have lurched forward in ability and can now produce reams of plausible prose that often can’t be distinguished from text written by humans. They can answer tricky technical questions, such as those posed to lawyers and computer programmers. They can even help better train other AIs. However, they have also raised serious concerns. Prominent AI researchers and tech industry leaders have called for research labs to pause the largest ongoing experiments in AI for at least six months in order to allow time for the development and implementation of safety guidelines. Italy’s regulators have gone further, temporarily banning a leading AI chatbot. At the centre of it all are large language models and other types of generative…

Ah, there’s nothing like the smell of glow fuel in the morning! My apologies to all you movie buffs, but if you fly glow-powered models, you know exactly what I mean! My oldest memories of the hobby are triggered by the smell of model engine exhaust and castor oil. For modelers new to engine-powered airplanes, the science of starting and tuning glow or gas airplane engines can seem like magic—but those techniques can be the subject of another article. For now, let’s take a closer look at the various fuels we use when flying engine-powered airplanes. GLOW FUEL Gas engines are fueled with ordinary automotive grade gasoline, while glow engines run on methanol-based fuel. Typically, giant-scale models use gas engines while most trainers, sport, aerobatic and scale models use glow engines. Whether they’re…

ONCE TARNISHED, MASERATI’S FAMOUS name is shiny again. The MC20, our reigning eCoty champ, turns out to be a mid-engined marvel for the ages, while the first new-generation GranTurismo to break cover, all 750bhp of whispering electric Folgore, has brought sexy to a mostly rather sterile EV sector. Facing a reputational fightback as well as the market’s baked-in challenges from the long-established Teutonic hegemony, Maserati still has it all to do but is proudly hauling itself back to a state of grace and, just as importantly, a place of relevance. Following a back-slapping fest for the MC20’s makers, protecting momentum is clearly key, and while the Folgore is necessarily a banker for an electron-dependent future, it’s the all-new, all-wheel-drive, petrol-powered, twin-turbo V6 GranTurismo that will either establish a post-MC20 hit factory…

Jason Isbell says the desire to be honest and fair is his compass. “One day I decided: ‘This is what I’m going to claim as the purpose for why I’m here,’” he says. “I think it’s to leave the place a little bit better than I found it, and to experience all the things that I can experience.” This year, Isbell is certainly experiencing plenty. He is releasing two albums, has a role in Martin Scorsese’s Killers of the Flower Moon, and is the subject of an HBO documentary. Isbell, 44, broke onto the music scene with the rock band Drive-By Truckers in 2001 and went solo in 2007. But his 2013 album, Southeastern, changed his career not too long after he changed his life by becoming sober. Since then he has…

With new and used cars still painfully expensive, Ryan Holdsworth says he plans to keep his 9-year-old Chevy Cruze for at least four more years. Limiting his car payments and his overall debt is a bigger priority for him than having a new vehicle. A 35-year-old grocery store worker from Grand Rapids, Michigan, Holdsworth would probably be in the market for a vehicle within a few years — if not for the high cost. For now, it’s out of the question. “You’re not going to get one for a price you can afford,” he said. Holdsworth has plenty of company. Americans are keeping their cars longer than ever. The average age of a passenger vehicle on the road hit a record 12.5 years this year, according to data gathered by S&P Global Mobility.…

B BEFORE THE HEATING SYSTEM FAILED IN THE DEPTHS OF WINTER, BEFORE THE FOUNDATION APPEARED TO SHIFT, BEFORE SHE AND HER HUSBAND WATCHED YOUTUBE VIDEOS IN ORDER TO FIX THE DISHWASHER, AMBER GUTIERREZ BELIEVED THAT SHE HAD FOUND HER FOREVER HOME, THANKS TO A FAST-GROWING STARTUP CALLED DIVVY HOMES. GUTIERREZ AND HER HUSBAND, WHO operate a small business together in San Antonio, didn’t have the savings or the tax history to qualify for a mortgage. But Divvy offered to buy a house of their choosing, then rent the property back to them while they saved for a down payment, with Divvy’s help. Within three years, they would have the option to buy the home at a prearranged price. The model, known as rentto-own, or lease-purchase, is one of several alternative home-financing solutions that…

Even three years ago, the realistic choices for a pure electric family car were something expensively Tesla-shaped or the Nissan Leaf. Possibly a Renault Zoe if your kids were particularly undernourished. These days, you can’t move for manufacturers committing earnestly to be entirely electrified in the next 10 years, pretty much all of them some variety of the much-abused ‘SUV’ catch all. And yet a couple of big hitters have been notably quiet. Nissan had always been at the forefront of electrified mass production with the Leaf, but while that car quietly soldiered on, there was a distinct lack of electric freshness on the Nissan menu. October 2019 first saw the Ariya concept, but it wasn’t until 2022 that we actually got our hands on a car. Similarly, Toyota – pioneer…

General Motors takes way more flak and gets nowhere near enough credit for the GM EV1, the most technologically advanced production vehicle of its time. It pioneered and/or demonstrated myriad features we either take for granted on today’s (electric and gas) cars or still regard as futuristic. And it’s worth remembering the first EV1 was built in 1996, just as another all-aluminum two-seater was rolling out: the Lotus Elise. Notably, that car’s rolling chassis would underpin the Tesla Roadster in 2008. Let’s review some of the EV1’s many innovations. A 137-hp, 110-lb-ft AC induction motor spun the front wheels via a single-speed transaxle. Tesla began with AC induction motors, and there’s been a move toward this motor type as the secondary motor in all-wheel-drive electric vehicles because it presents no drag…

WATCHING THE TAIL END OF A BUGATTI CHIRON Super Sport squirm under full acceleration as all four of its vast tyres scrabble for grip momentarily is not, let’s face it, a sight many folks will ever get to witness up close and personal, in real life. But even if you are fortunate enough to see a Chiron SS in full flight as it thunders its way from zero to 62mph in 2.4sec and to 186mph (300kph) in just 12.1sec, it will inevitably be a blink-and-you’ll-miss-it experience, a seismic event that’s already unfolded long before you’ve had time to focus in on the details. Unless, that is, you happen to be sitting behind the Bugatti at the controls of a Rimac Nevera, in which case you’ll have all the time in the…

DARIO WOLOS WAS MISSING a key ingredient when he opened a taco stand in Mexico in 2006: restaurant experience. Wolos had worked for a software startup in London for the previous five years, but he'd dreamed of opening a Mexican restaurant for the better part of a decade, having lived in his mother's native Mexico as a child. So, after installing some cooking equipment in a 1963 Volkswagen bus, Wolos founded Tacombi in the beach town of Playa del Carmen—the name is a combination of taco and combi, a word for minibus in Mexico. When the taco stand took off, Wolos moved to New York City and opened a Tacombi restaurant in a converted garage. The company has since expanded to more than 20 locations on the East Coast, including 11…

Michael Jordan debutó con los Toros de Chicago a mediados de la década de los 80, sin saber que sus Air Jordan se convertirían en una leyenda que daría paso a un lucrativo negocio. Era 1984 y el entonces novato del baloncesto utilizó durante su quinto partido unos tenis Nike Air Ships. A finales de octubre de 2021, ese mismo par, firmado, se vendió durante una subasta de la casa Sotheby’s por un precio de casi 1.5 millones de dólares. Nike, que con Jordan se dio cuenta del potencial que tenían las colaboraciones para elevar el valor del calzado deportivo, creó una línea exclusiva para los tenis con la rúbrica del basquetbolista, con la que después lograron elevar las zapatillas a un artículo exclusivo del que solo se vendía un número…

Top executives at Silicon Valley Bank and Signature Bank largely avoided taking responsibility for their banks’ dramatic failures at a Senate hearing, instead using their time to assign blame to events they said were largely out of their control. The arguments got little traction with senators on both sides of the aisle. Democrats and Republicans on the Senate Banking Committee criticized the executives for taking risky actions or missing obvious problems that directly led to the demise of their banks, while still accepting lucrative pay packages and bonuses, even in the days and weeks leading up to the failures. “You were paying out bonuses until literally hours before regulators seized your assets,” said Sen. Sherrod Brown, the Democratic chair of the Senate Banking Committee. “To most Americans, a lack of Wall Street…

ON A GOOD DAY, assuming decent weather, little traffic, and skills behind the wheel, a cab ride from John F. Kennedy International Airport in Queens to downtown Manhattan should take about 45 minutes. Yet who can reliably predict New York City traffic? That trip could last twice as long on a bad day. Now assume you could avoid the streets entirely and get to lower Manhattan in minutes. By some estimates, more than 200 startups are racing to deploy what popular culture has dubbed flying cars. And, by their admittedly optimistic estimates, there’s a chance that the 45-minute drive on pavement from JFK will be converted to a 10-minute flight through the air by the end of this decade. Leaders in the quest to make cabs airborne believe everyday passengers at places…

I have never wanted to be driving to the French Riviera more than I do right now. If any Ferrari was envisioned to get you there quickly, comfortably and in unrivalled style it was the 400 Superamerica. The Oxfordshire countryside will have to do for today, though, providing plenty of picturesque scenery to explore and enjoy what was once the jewel in Ferrari’s crown. This SWB Coupé Aerodinamico in particular is almost painfully beautiful. ‘It’s built like a Rolls-Royce, but has the performance of a Ferrari… and the rarity of a Picasso,’ jokes Max Girardo, who is currently selling this gorgeous car on behalf of its most recent owner. The Superamerica represents the pinnacle of what Ferrari could achieve at the time, as it wanted to pursue the top-tier grand tourer…

WORLD ENDURANCE CHAMPIONSHIP Toyota pretty much dominated the World Endurance Championship Prologue at Sebring last weekend. It was 1-2 in three of the four sessions at the test that led into race week for tomorrow’s (Friday) season-opener and ended up a couple of tenths clear of its nearest rival. But question marks remained ahead of the start of free practice on Wednesday – at least in the mind of the Japanese manufacturer. Jose Maria Lopez finished the Prologue with the quickest time, a 1m48.208s set aboard the #7 Toyota GR010 HYBRID during the opening session on Saturday morning, just 0.008s ahead of Brendon Hartley’s best in the #8 sister car from Sunday afternoon. Both Toyota’s Le Mans Hypercars were in the low 1m48s during each period of track running, but what confused…

A 30 años de distancia de su llegada a la empresa, Federico Toussaint Elosúa recuerda los primeros pasos de un negocio internacional que comenzó con una ladrillera en Monterrey, Nuevo León. Hoy, el director general y presidente del Consejo de Administración de Lamosa cree que es tiempo de consolidar el negocio y mirar al mundo. “Cuando llegué, vendíamos 80 millones de dólares; este año vamos a vender 1,800 millones de dólares, es decir, 30 años después alcanzamos esta cifra. Tengo la satisfacción de ver cómo ha ido evolucionando la empresa a través del tiempo y eso es un gran orgullo”, dice el empresario desde el Club Industrial de Nuevo León, en entrevista con FORBES MÉXICO. La pandemia de Covid-19 favoreció el negocio de Lamosa y catapultó sus ventas frente al interés de…

Facebook says it is not dead. Facebook also wants you to know that it is not just for “old people,” as young people have been saying for years. Now, with the biggest thorn in its side — TikTok — facing heightened government scrutiny amid growing tensions between the U.S. and China, Facebook could, perhaps, position itself as a viable, domestic-bred alternative. There’s just one problem: young adults like Devin Walsh have moved on. “I don’t even remember the last time I logged in. It must have been years ago,” said Walsh, 24, who lives in Manhattan and works in public relations. Instead, she checks Instagram, which is also owned by Facebook parent company Meta, about five or six times a day. Then there’s TikTok, of course, where she spends about an hour each day…

When Nespresso announced, at the end of April, that it had received B Corp certification, it was a milestone. The Nestlé-owned coffee company was joining the ranks of legendarily progressive brands like Ben & Jerry’s and Patagonia, along with 5,000 other companies around the globe whose social and environmental practices have met the standards set by the nonprofit B Lab, which issues the certification in its mission to make businesses “a force for good.” Nespresso soon began adding the increasingly familiar B Corp logo—an encircled B—to its website, products, and even the windows of its global headquarters in Vevey, Switzerland. But a backlash was brewing. In June, 30 certified B Corps signed an open letter to B Lab protesting the coffee maker’s certification, pointing to a history of child labor and…

ON A FOGGY midsummer morning 54 miles northwest of Santa Barbara, California, SpaceX engineers hustled through a ritual they’d been through before. They loaded a Falcon 9 rocket with tens of thousands of gallons of kerosene and supercold liquid oxygen, a propellant combo that brought the craft’s nine Merlin engines roaring to life with 1.7 million pounds of thrust. Soon after, the machine shot through the stratosphere, ready to dispatch 46 of the company’s Starlink internet satellites into low Earth orbit. But the rocket made another delivery too: a trail of sooty particles that lingered over the Pacific hours after blastoff. The launch was the company’s 32nd of 2022, maintaining its current pace of firing off close to one rocket per week. With a record number of rides shuttling equipment, astronauts,…

This annual warbird event started in memory of Dino DiGiorgio Sr., the man who in 1997 started the World Miniature Warbird Association. He wanted to preserve military aviation history with fun-fly style events that included all sizes of RC models. Dino Sr. passed away in 2003, and his son Dino Jr. has been the motivational driver for this special memorial event. This was my second time attending the Rally, and it did not disappoint. It was again held at Mac Hodges Field in Andersonville, Georgia. The grass runway is like a golf course fairway that includes a pond for float flying. Not only does Mac have a beautiful airfield, but the rest of the topnotch facility includes a huge covered staging area, restrooms with showers, a lot of RV parking, and…

La transición de los autos de combustión a los eléctricos tiene aún un largo camino por recorrer en México. Pero las automotrices saben que es una carrera que requiere paciencia y saber escuchar al mercado. De enero a diciembre del año pasado, en México se vendieron 1 millón 94,728 nuevos vehículos. De acuerdo con la Asociación Mexicana de la Industria Automotriz (AMIA), en este mismo periodo se logró la venta de 51,065 unidades de energías alternativas. De este total, el 84%, unos 40,859 autos, tenían tecnología híbrida; 5,631 eran vehículos eléctricos, el 11%; mientras que el 9%, 4,575 automóviles, eran híbridos enchufables. Existe una creciente necesidad de que la industria automotriz transite hacia la electrificación total, y Mazda lo sabe, pero ha decidio tomar esta tendencia con cautela. La armadora japonesa ha optado…

Allá donde no alcanzan los sentidos, donde la intuición humana resulta cualquier cosa menos intuitiva; en esa fracción de segundo que separa un simple susto de un accidente fatal, es donde la tecnología de un buen automóvil acude a nuestro rescate. Contar con sistemas de seguridad, activa, pasiva y preventiva más o menos avanzados, no solo no es cuestión baladí, es vital. En Hyundai lo saben bien y por ello el Ioniq 6 nos recibe con un despliegue tecnológico sin precedentes. Bien acomodado en el enorme asiento que me deja frente a un volante a juego –con un diámetro amplísimo–y sin rastro del habitual logotipo de la marca, tengo la impresión de estar ante una superberlina de lujo venida directamente del futuro. Nueva dimensión Dos grandes pantallas unidas entre sí de 12,2 pulgadas…

Less than two months into his $44 billion purchase of Twitter, Elon Musk declared that whoever took over as the company’s CEO “ must like pain a lot.” Then he promised he’d step down as soon as he found a replacement “foolish enough” to want the job. That person, Musk announced last weekend, is Linda Yaccarino, a highly-regarded advertising executive from NBCUniversal. She’ll start in six weeks. How long she’ll last might depend on her pain tolerance. When Musk tweeted that he’s found a new CEO but didn’t say who, one word stuck out: “she.” Some of his more extreme Twitter followers took immediate issue with the new CEO’s gender, but the fact that Musk hired a woman is actually notable simply because it is so rare — in business overall and…

Amid a week of massive layoffs at Disney, the leadership team of its film arm gathered in Las Vegas on Wednesday to tout its successes and upcoming slate of films to a crowd of theater owners and exhibitors. The Walt Disney Company presentation, with exclusive new footage from films like “Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny,”“Elemental,” “Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3” and “The Little Mermaid,” is part of the CinemaCon convention. At the weeklong trade conference, major Hollywood studios put on splashy presentations to assure the people who play their movies, from the biggest chains like AMC to single-screen independent theaters, that they have the content to keep audiences buying movie tickets. Alan Bergman, the co-chair of Disney Entertainment, took the stage inside the Colosseum theater at Caesars Palace first. “I…

IN BRIEF What A reduced-irrigation garden using mostly Mediterranean region native species. Where Central Spain. Size 600 square metres. Soil Free-draining, granite-based soil mixed with sand. Climate Mediterranean steppe, with a wide temperature range. Cold winters and hot, dry summers. Hardiness zone USDA 8. There's nothing especially unusual about the sight of old stone walls, made of rough granite, in the countryside of central Spain. But hidden behind the stone walls surrounding this private house, near Toledo, south of Madrid, is something that really is unusual in this part of Spain: a garden. And not just any garden. There are no bright colours, no lawn and none of the obvious status-symbol irrigation seen all too often in dry-climate regions. Instead this is a garden that seems to concentrate the best of its surroundings…

CAPTUREDFROMTHEHART.COM With its distinctive scale scheme and roaring turboprop engine, Henry Castellanos’s 107-inch-span Pilatus PC-21 impressed the judges, competitors, and spectators at the Top Gun Scale Invitational. Henry not only placed first in the Sportsman class, he was also awarded the coveted Critics’ Choice and Outstanding Craftsmanship trophies. We caught up with Henry to learn more about his Wind RC Jets XXL Pilatus PC-12. Model Airplane News: Tell us more about your model and its level of prefabrication. Henry Castellanos: This plane came to me plugand-play, but I had it custom-made this way. I had a top builder at the factory build this for me with equipment I sent from the States. I sent the MKS servos, PowerBox wire, PowerBox connectors, and PowerBox light controller. They assembled everything for me with the best…

● We sample newcomer’s chassis during cold-weather testing ● Wide track and direct steering promise driving fun “Renault has made a commitment to ensure that all drivers will be happy behind the wheel” THE reborn Renault 5 was first conceptualised in 2021, and since then the hype about the EV has soared. The concept is a modern nod to the original, but with an electric heart, and while the production car won’t be with us until 2024, we’ve been for an icy spin in an early prototype to find out what the future will feel like. The 5 is based on Renault’s latest CMF-BEV platform, which is designed specifically for small EVs (it’ll also underpin the upcoming Renault 4 SUV) and with cost in mind, because it’s 30 per cent cheaper to produce than…

The head of the artificial intelligence company that makes ChatGPT told Congress on Tuesday that government intervention will be critical to mitigating the risks of increasingly powerful AI systems. “As this technology advances, we understand that people are anxious about how it could change the way we live. We are too,” OpenAI CEO Sam Altman said at a Senate hearing. Altman proposed the formation of a U.S. or global agency that would license the most powerful AI systems and have the authority to “take that license away and ensure compliance with safety standards.” His San Francisco-based startup rocketed to public attention after it released ChatGPT late last year. The free chatbot tool answers questions with convincingly human-like responses. What started out as a panic among educators about ChatGPT’s use to cheat on homework assignments…

Microsoft 365 Copilot’s AI tools don’t seem particularly surprising for the company who originated Clippy’s helper bot. But applying AI and natural language to Microsoft Office feels like a profound, fundamental change that could absolutely transform the way you work. Microsoft 365 Copilot essentially injects AI into the various Office apps. You’ll still interact with them the way you normally would, but Copilot will also live in the toolbar atop those apps, and you’ll interact with it in a sidebar. If you’ve ever hauled a coworker over and told them, “Show me how to do this,” you’ll understand what Microsoft 365 Copilot can do. Except it will actually, you know, do it. It’s really the next generation of AI chatbots: not bots that talk to you like Bing Chat does, but assistants…

FORMULA 1 If at first you don’t succeed, try once more. If that doesn’t work, go back to the drawing board. That’s how the Mercedes Formula 1 team appears to be operating presently, with boss Toto Wolff declaring at last weekend’s Bahrain Grand Prix opening round that it is now time to bin its car concept to stop its grounds-effects rot. Compared to the team’s 2022 qualifying pace in Bahrain, Mercedes has gained 0.708 seconds per lap. That, and the elimination of porpoising, means the squad is understood to have largely satisfied its internal performance targets. But that improvement returned only sixth on the grid last weekend for George Russell and seventh for Lewis Hamilton. As such, the ‘Black Arrows’ find themselves chasing the shadows of the Red Bull RB19s and shuffled…

A PERITIVO HOUR IS UPON US IN A sun-drenched piazza on the edge of Lake Como, arguably one of the most romantic places on earth, and my boyfriend and I are drinking prosecco and talking about… Liz Cheney. We are wondering, on this mid-August afternoon, what percentage of the Wyoming primary vote do we think she will win? This isn’t an academic question. I want to bet on Cheney’s chances through PredictIt, a political betting market, and I want my boyfriend, who has a doctorate in political science, to help me. (We are in Como to see his beloved Arkansas Razorbacks play basketball, so I figure he owes me.) He talks about former president Donald Trump’s crusade against Cheney while I pull up FiveThirtyEight on my phone. I then end up…

A passenger walks up to an airport security checkpoint, slips an ID card into a slot and looks into a camera atop a small screen. The screen flashes “Photo Complete” and the person walks through — all without having to hand over their identification to the TSA officer sitting behind the screen. It’s all part of a pilot project by the Transportation Security Administration to assess the use of facial recognition technology at a number of airports across the country. “What we are trying to do with this is aid the officers to actually determine that you are who you say who you are,” said Jason Lim, identity management capabilities manager, during a demonstration of the technology to reporters at Baltimore-Washington International Thurgood Marshall Airport. The effort comes at a time when the…

When you are installing aftermarket retracts in a plans-built airplane project, you have to plan ahead. Installing the main plywood support ribs and mounting rails so that the landing gear end up straight and square to the building board is the most important task. Here’s the process I used to install Robart no. 148E electric-powered gear in an 85-inch-span version of the Ziroli Skyraider. WING STRUCTURE Before the wing was even built, I checked the fit of the Robart #148E gear by laying them in place over the plans. Since the original plans were reduced 15 percent, there was no way to know exactly if the gears’ frame would fit properly in width and depth without actually having the units on hand. As you can see here, the fit is tight, but…

Businesses of all sizes are scrambling to find their footing in an environment radically changed by the Covid pandemic, the rapid growth of remote work, and other trends. The companies rebounding fastest are those committed to integrating key workforce issues into their overall business strategy, and the right HR technology is critical to doing that successfully. With pockets deep enough to invest in the latest HR technology, large enterprises have a leg up in this area. Workforce activity at big companies is up as much as 23 percent over prepandemic levels, according to a study by the HR Research Institute. However, small and midsize businesses (SMBs) continue to struggle, with 45 percent only partially automating critical HR, payroll, talent, and timekeeping processes. “Money is the obvious and primary reason SMBs typically lag…

Para buscar el origen del ceviche hay que viajar al norte del Perú precolombino, a sus desiertos costeros. En el árido litoral batido por las olas del Pacífico residían los tenaces mochicas, que hace casi dos mil años se afanaban por arrancarle algo al suelo de sus ancestros. Eran hábiles ingenieros que excavaron canales en un desierto casi marciano para regar sus cultivos. Levantaron templos y pirámides de adobe. También subían a unas pintorescas barcas de escuetas proas puntiagudas, hechas con hojas y tallos de juncos. Concebidos para domar el mar en los caballitos de totora –así se llamaban esas peculiares embarcaciones– los robustos pescadores llevaban a tierra el pescado. Allí lo cocinaban con tumbo, una fruta autóctona ligeramente ácida, con cuyo jugo se bañaba. Se da por hecho que a…

Un tren subterráneo que provoca un estruendo a su paso; una fuente de agua que cae hacia las profundidades de la tierra como el recuerdo de un momento imborrable; o bien, el bullicio que proviene de todos lados y no se detiene: así son los sonidos incesantes de Nueva York. Y es ahí donde se da el encuentro entre FORBES LIFE y Giles Martin, vicepresidente de Experiencia de Audio de Sonos. El motivo del encuentro es la presentación de la nueva familia de bocinas de esta firma estadounidense, en la cual destaca el lanzamiento de la Era 300, la primera de la casa en ofrecer una experiencia de audio “espacial”. Y si alguien sabe de esto es Martin, no sólo por ser hijo de George Martin (productor musical de Los Beatles),…

Nearly three months ago, Hyundai and Kia unveiled software that was designed to thwart an epidemic of thefts of their vehicles, caused by a security flaw that was exposed on TikTok and other social media sites. So far, it hasn’t solved the problem. Across the country, thieves are still driving off with the vehicles at an alarming rate. Data from seven U.S. cities gathered shows that the number of Hyundai and Kia thefts is still growing despite the companies’ efforts to fix the glitch, which makes 8.3 million vehicles relatively easy targets for thieves. From Minneapolis, Cleveland and St. Louis to New York, Seattle, Atlanta and Grand Rapids, Michigan, police have reported substantial year-over-year increases in Hyundai and Kia theft reports through April. An eighth city, Denver, which was hit early by the…

“WHEN YOU'RE READY, FEEL FREE TO TAKE your seat with grace, landing into the body with ease, trusting whatever posture feels most supportive.” My Roblox avatar—a blocky, smiley-faced little guy with shaggy orange hair, a plasticky gray com plexion, and hinged limbs—is rolling out his yoga mat. As a soothing voice coaches him, he kneels with palms outstretched, surrounded by other avatars seeking their own inner peace. By the standards of Roblox's 3D playground, this exer cise in virtual mindfulness isn't exactly action-packed—and that's the point. “We wanted something calm and tranquil, where you can tune in by tuning out,” says Angelic Vendette, global head of marketing at yoga-wear maker Alo, which created the experience. So, apparently, did plenty of Roblox users: They've visited the virtual yoga studio more than 70 million…

As we went about putting together this issue, I couldn’t help but to think about a subsect of cars from the ’90s—cars that are more than deserving of their reputations. The past 10 years might very well go down as the peak hypercar era—the Bugatti Veyron, LaFerrari, McLaren P1, Porsche 918 Spyder, Aston Martin Valkyrie—but the ’90s were peak supercar. Sure, ’70s (the Lamborghini Countach) and ’80s (still Countach, plus the Ferrari Testarossa and Porsche 959) supercars were cool, but the high-flying stuff from the ’90s was simply on another level. After what seemed like two decades of general decline, cars suddenly didn’t suck anymore. The Dodge Viper is the first car that comes to mind when I think about ’90s supercars. Before the Viper, it had been forever since Mopar…

LIKE MANY A FAMILY VACATION, everything was perfect when we started out. The sky was sapphire blue, Palm Springs was just closing out its fashionable Modernism Week, and we had scheduled several days of activities designed to challenge our convoy while highlighting how minivans have evolved from bare-bones people-hauling boxes to sophisticated and feature-laden luxury transports. The plan was to soak up the February sunshine in the desert, alight through power-sliding doors in the valet drop-off at hip farm-to-table eateries, and test the sturdiness of the many cupholders on the twisting roads surrounding the valley. Then there was a sandstorm, a windstorm, a wildfire, a power outage, a canceled hotel, and a blizzard, all within the first 36 hours. It was decidedly not luxurious, but you only really appreciate the comfort…

EI 2022 será recordado como el año en que la Inteligencia Artificial (LA) demostró su poder al gran público: un incontable número de usuarios pudo comprobar la capacidad de Dall-E para crear desde cero imágenes a partir de consignas en lenguaje natural y otros tantos se maravillaron con la capacidad de diálogo de ChatGPT. Por debajo de este fenómeno, los gigantes del sector están reacomodando sus estrategias en torno a esta tecnología para capturar un mercado cada vez más atractivo: en septiembre pasado, IDC estimó que el gasto total mundial en LA hacia 2026 superará los US$ 300.000 millones. La paradoja está en el aire: para ganar en el cada vez más apetitoso mercado de la Inteligencia Artificial, las empresas del sector deberán hacer el mejor uso posible de sus…

Hace seis años, Geana Barbosa se mudó a Singapur, uno de los países con mayor competitividad en el ámbito laboral. Mientras se adaptaba a una nueva cultura y equipo de trabajo, la actual directora para América Latina de Hootsuite comenzó a sentir una contradicción muy grande. Pronto la sensación de éxito se transformó en un profundo agotamiento y melancolía. Barbosa supo que era hora de tomar un camino alterno y en el mindfulness encontró el autoconocimiento. La práctica se volvió parte de su día a día para conectarse y desconectarse del trabajo y aprendió que las experiencias laborales se viven e interpretan con base en lo que pensamos y en nuestra actitud ante ellas. “No soy exactamente el modelo de perfección que se busca. Estaría mintiendo si dijera que nunca miro el…

WHEN GARY HIRSHBERG joined Stonyfield Farm in 1983, it was just, as it touts, “seven cows and a dream.” But there were still plenty of night terrors: A bad deal with a new dairy cost the company millions; it didn't break even until nine years in. But from there, Hirshberg built Stonyfield into the world's top organic yogurt producer, with annual revenue nearing $100 million—before a gradual acquisition by Danone that began in 2001. • Hirsh berg has always been a get-your-hands-dirty kind of founder, high-octane and overbooked. Today, at 68, that holds: Besides being a senior adviser to Stonyfield, he runs his own entrepreneurship institute, chairs two nonprofits he founded, invests in multiple startups, and is building a farm and organic entrepreneurship center in New Zealand. His rationale for…

Dicen que una imagen vale más que mil palabras. La cuarta generación del Hyundai Tucson cumple a la perfección este dicho popular porque, ¿te has fijado en su rompedor diseño, en la gran habitabilidad interior y en sus cualidades camperas? Seguro que sí y en muchas cosas más de este todocamino que se coloca en las primeras posiciones de los más vendidos, mes a mes. Precisamente, la tecnología que monta da como para un completo manual, pero en Car and Driver queremos contarte única y exclusivamente cinco para que conozcas un poco más de ellas, creadas al servicio del conductor y de los pasajeros. Empezaremos por los faros led. Éstos, que se conocen como Parametric Hidden Lights y quedan encajados literalmente en la parrilla, están compuestos por diversas ‘capas’ para lograr…

At the end of “The Searchers,” one of John Wayne’s most renowned Westerns, a kidnapped girl has been rescued and a family reunited. As the closing music swells, Wayne’s character looks around at his kin — people who have other people to lean on — and then walks off toward the dusty West Texas horizon, lonesome and alone. It’s a classic example of a fundamental American tall tale — that of a nation built on notions of individualism, a male-dominated story filled with loners and “rugged individualists” who suck it up, do what needs to be done, ride off into the sunset and like it that way. In reality, loneliness in America can be deadly. This month, U.S. Surgeon General Vivek Murthy declared it an American epidemic, saying that it takes as…

The Toyota Prius driver has long sacrificed everything at the altar of fuel economy: power, performance, styling, handling, ergonomics, dignity. The Prius has been a one-trick pony that lacked actual ponies. That ends now. Only the stellar fuel economy remains, with Toyota estimating 57 mpg combined for the new front-wheel-drive LE and 52 mpg for the XLE and Limited with front-wheel drive. At a glance, the first thing that stands out about the 2023 Prius is its handsome design, words we’ve never typed before. Chief engineer Satoki Oya allowed the designers “the freedom to do what they want,” in contrast to the “relentless pursuit of aerodynamic efficiency” that produced the previous weird-mobiles. The resulting car is longer (1.1 inches), lower (1.6 inches), and wider (0.9 inch). A 2.0-inch-longer wheelbase and a…

IN 2002, WHEN I WAS 23 years old, the career I'd always wanted looked to be over before it even started. One night in Michigan, after a bartender cut me off from tipping back way too many whiskeys, I proceeded to tear his bar apart. Malicious destruc tion of property, as it turns out, is a felony in the state. I had long wanted to be a lawyer. When I asked the court-appointed attorney representing me if he thought that was still possible, he shot back: “Not if you're convicted of a felony.” My life, addled by addiction, spiraled down from there. I added five more felony convictions to my rap sheet in the next four years, all offenses related to selling drugs or supporting my drug habit, which included marijuana,…

The breathtaking development of artificial intelligence has dazzled users by composing music, creating images and writing essays, while also raising fears about its implications. Even European Union officials working on groundbreaking rules to govern the emerging technology were caught off guard by AI’s rapid rise. The 27-nation bloc proposed the Western world’s first AI rules two years ago, focusing on reining in risky but narrowly focused applications. General purpose AI systems like chatbots were barely mentioned. Lawmakers working on the AI Act considered whether to include them but weren’t sure how, or even if it was necessary. “Then ChatGPT kind of boom, exploded,” said Dragos Tudorache, a Romanian member of the European Parliament co-leading the measure. “If there was still some that doubted as to whether we need something at all, I…

IN BRIEF What Long, rectangular, suburban garden on several different levels. Where London. Size 250 square metres. Soil Poor London clay soil, full of rubble, improved or replaced as needed with a compost-enriched loamy topsoil. Climate Temperate. Hardiness zone USDA 9. The most prominent feature in this long, narrow garden has already earned itself a nickname, “We call it the Cubist cliff path,” explains designer Tom Massey with a smile. This sculptural element merges Brutalist blocks of cast concrete with the experience of a walk along the rugged Cornish coast, complete with the risk of getting one's feet wet while jumping a stream. “I wanted to create the same sense of adventure and excitement that you get when interacting with a wild landscape,” says Tom. “I took inspiration from the cubist shapes of the architecture, but softened…

“Is the Corolla-badged SUV big enough to be a one-car solution?”Billy Rehbock Base Price $26,010 As Tested $26,957 EPA CITY/HWY/COMB FUEL ECON 31/33/32 mpg VEHICLE LAYOUT Front-engine, FWD, 5-pass, 4-door SUV ENGINE 2.0L direct-injected DOHC 16-valve I-4 POWER (SAE NET) 169 hp @ 6,600 rpm TORQUE (SAE NET) 150 lb-ft @ 4,400 rpm TRANSMISSION Cont variable auto CURB WEIGHT (F/R DIST) 3,101 lb (61/39%) 0-60 MPH 8.4 sec QUARTER MILE 16.5 sec @ 84.8 mph BRAKING, 60-0 MPH 125 ft LATERAL ACCELERATION 0.80 g (avg) MT FIGURE EIGHT 28.6 sec @ 0.56 g (avg) EPA RANGE, COMB 397 miles As the smallest and most affordable vehicles in a manufacturer’s lineup, today’s subcompact SUVs have to satisfy many demands. In some cases, these small crossovers will be the first new car some folks purchase, thanks to their relatively affordable starting prices, sensible packaging, and solid fuel economy…

THE EXPLOSION OF PROGRESS IN ARTIFICIAL intelligence in recent months has surprised even the scientists and engineers who specialize in applying AI to real-world tasks. “A few years ago I never would have imagined we’d advance this far this soon,” says Zhe Jiang, a University of Florida researcher who studies industrial applications of AI. The recent excitement—and concerns—over this technology were ignited when several major companies released stunningly capable new programs in swift succession, including OpenAI’s ChatGPT, Microsoft’s Bing and Google’s Bard. These “large language models” are programmed to pore over trillions of words of text from the internet to learn how to produce very human-like text and images on their own in response to plain English questions and requests. These and other AI tools are expected to have big consequences for…

As a business owner, you know things aren't always sunny. Orders get delayed by supply chain snafus, 404 pages inexplicably pop up, a product just isn't what a customer expected. Though you can't always prevent storm clouds from forming, when they do, top-of-the-line customer service practices can keep everyone smiling. For many entrepreneurs, customer service is more than just a pillar of their business—it's an overarching philosophy that carries them every step of the way through their operations. It is, after all, a myth that founders don't have a boss. Your customers are the ones who give you your paycheck, and the way you treat them has a direct impact on your livelihood. You can, one might say, make it rain only when your clients and customers are happy. Still, figuring out…