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Evening Standard
Evening Standard
Technology
Rachelle Abbott

Flying sports car: the pilot on driving science fiction into reality

How about beating the dreaded commute with a flying sports car, just like in Back to the Future II?

We spoke to inventor Professor Stefan Klein who has quite literally turned science fiction into reality.

Professor Stefan Klein flew 3 5-minutes in the prototype called Air Car between two airports in Slovakia. It’s hoped the AirCar’s range could be about 600 miles with an altitude of 8,200ft - and Professor Klein has already logged 40 flying hours in the vehicle.

Two treatments called ipatasertib and abiraterone as a combination could allow men with particularly aggressive prostate cancers to be treated more effectively and extend the time before progression.

The international phase three trial took place across 200 sites in 26 countries and involved 1,101 men, of whom 521 had tumours that lacked a fully functioning PTEN gene.

New figures published by Twitter show that since January last year, hashtags encouraging people to stay at home to save lives and to wear a mask have dominated online discussions.

Britons have sent more than 112 million tweets about Covid-19 since the beginning of 2020.

A Scottish rocket company called Skyrora hopes to bring home a 1977 vintage satellite from space, Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak is endorsing people’s right to repair, there’s a fresh call for more people over the age of  50 to get working in the tech sector, and, Sainsbury’s is no longer selling DVDs and CDs on its shelves.

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