But rather than deploying flying cars to transport island-hopping elites ... the philanthropic arm of his family office, the Sergey Brin Family Foundation, to direct funds toward his favorite ...

Sergey Brin, a cofounder of Google, is facing a wrongful-death lawsuit stemming from a plane crash last year that killed two crew members en route to a private island in the South Pacific.

Brin has been the mastermind for some of the most ambitious ones, including self-driving cars, smart contact lenses, and Google Glass. Source: The New Yorker For a long time, you couldn't spot ...