After years in development, California is finally rolling out its digital license plate pilot program. Drivers can purchase and install plate that uses the same E Ink screen technology as an Amazon Kindle or various wearables. The new digital display was developed by Reviver Auto and replaces a traditional stamped plate. It's available for both consumer and commercial vehicles, though at a considerable cost.
The slow-trickle build-up to the official reveal of the new Audi Q8 continues, with the German brand releasing a pair of sketches on Twitter that show the flagship SUV's front and rear ends.
Earlier this month we configured a McLaren Senna with the assistance of two representatives of McLaren Special Operations. In that piece we wrote about few chances there are for the online "shopper" to get a feel for the coachbuilt experience; the Ferrari LaFerrari configurator offered just three color options, for instance, and Bugatti removed the few variables it presented for the Chiron. McLaren didn't build a public configurator for the Senna. It's the Rolls-Royce Cullinan to the rescue &mda
The all-new 2019 Acura RDX will hit dealers on June 1, 2018, and it'll come with a window sticker bearing a base price of $38,295. That's for a front-wheel-drive RDX; adding all-wheel drive brings the base price to $40,295. Standard equipment includes the AccuraWatch safety and driver assistance package, which bundles automatic emergency braking, adaptive cruise control, lane keeping assist, and road departure mitigation.
According to The New York Times, the White House held the briefing off the record. For this reason, the Times only quoted “a senior White House official” rather than giving the official’s name. The Times also stated that over 50 people were present at the briefing, and a BuzzFeed reporter who signed on to the simultaneous conference called said in a tweet that more than 240 people were on the line when she joined. Trump’s lie was easily caught. “I was there. This was a background briefing given by a senior administration official in the briefing room!” reporter Brian Karem wrote on Twitter. “POTUS either has no idea what his own administration is doing, has lost his mind, doesn’t care, all of the above and is such a liar he can’t remember the last lie he told.”
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The New York Times is thinking beyond its archives as it looks to add more subscription products to its portfolio. The Times last week announced a team to develop a subscription product for parents. But while other recent product launches, the Cooking and Crossword apps, were built on archives of content, the parenting product isn’t based on a massive library of parenting content. The publisher’s New Products and Ventures team, which was formally announced eight months ago, is less focused on whether the Times has an easily exploitable asset in place and more on whether the publisher has a market advantage in an area.
Member State governments have adopted their position on copyright reform. Julia Reda says people across the world are learning what they need to do to comply with the EU General Data Protection Regulation, and many are finding themselves wishing they had involved themselves in the debate when the law was decided more than two years ago. “On the topic of copyright, you NOW have the chance to have an influence — a chance that will be long lost in two years, when we’ll all be ‘suddenly’ faced with the challenge of having to implement upload filters and the ‘link tax’ — or running into new limits on what we can do using the web services we rely on.”
Founder John Foley designed Peloton to accommodate the on-demand, binge habits of consumers, Wi-Fi connectivity and the exploding use of smart devices. “When we were growing up,” he says, “you went to Channel 3 at 10, and it was Magnum P.I. Now media is shifting. It’s your time. Your location. You’re the boss. You get to control how you consume your media.” So Peloton built a bike prototype and software to allow for livestreaming and on-demand classes. Now Peloton has two studios in New York and 33 bike showrooms across the country. They produce 14 hours of live classes.
Enraged last week by negative media coverage of Tesla, entrepreneur Elon Musk proposed a rating system in which the public would vote on the credibility of individual journalists and news sites. “Problem is journos are under constant pressure to get max clicks & earn advertising dollars or get fired. Tricky situation, as Tesla doesn’t advertise, but fossil fuel companies & gas/diesel car companies are among world’s biggest advertisers.” It doesn’t work that way, writes Margaret Sullivan. Journalists are not under pressure to earn ad dollars through their news stories and in fact go out of their way not to write favorably — or at all — about their company’s advertisers. “Musk should stick with his plans for colonizing Mars with his SpaceX venture.”
When the Access Hollywood tape of Donald Trump emerged in the home stretch of the 2016 election, it should have been a gift from the tabloid gods for TMZ, writes Lachlan Cartwright. Within a week of the tape’s explosion, TMZ ran “exclusive” after “exclusive” giving Trump cover. It shouldn’t have been a surprise: It was the result of a cozy relationship between TMZ founder and boss Harvey Levin and Trump, who called each other throughout the campaign, reports Cartwright.
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After years in development, California is finally rolling out its digital license plate pilot program. Drivers can purchase and install plate that uses the same E Ink screen technology as an Amazon Kindle or various wearables. The new digital display was developed by Reviver Auto and replaces a traditional stamped plate. It's available for both consumer and commercial vehicles, though at a considerable cost.
The slow-trickle build-up to the official reveal of the new Audi Q8 continues, with the German brand releasing a pair of sketches on Twitter that show the flagship SUV's front and rear ends.
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Earlier this month we configured a McLaren Senna with the assistance of two representatives of McLaren Special Operations. In that piece we wrote about few chances there are for the online "shopper" to get a feel for the coachbuilt experience; the Ferrari LaFerrari configurator offered just three color options, for instance, and Bugatti removed the few variables it presented for the Chiron. McLaren didn't build a public configurator for the Senna. It's the Rolls-Royce Cullinan to the rescue &mda
Sliding sales of the Altima and deep discounts are blamed
The all-new 2019 Acura RDX will hit dealers on June 1, 2018, and it'll come with a window sticker bearing a base price of $38,295. That's for a front-wheel-drive RDX; adding all-wheel drive brings the base price to $40,295. Standard equipment includes the AccuraWatch safety and driver assistance package, which bundles automatic emergency braking, adaptive cruise control, lane keeping assist, and road departure mitigation.