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It starts at £2,787 ($3,330), then tops out at a mind-boggling £34,534 ($41,262) for the borderline offensive Himalaya Alligator Leather 18K Gold & Diamond model. And that may not even be the most eye-opening part: Vertu markets this thing as the “world’s first Web3 phone,” a claim that would set off alarm bells had they not already been ringing since first sight of the Vertu name. Why? Over the years, Vertu has been responsible for some of the most tasteless and gaudy phones to roll off a production line....

Really, I stopped because I knew my coworker Jason would have a lot to say about the vehicle’s lighting situation. The rear taillight, in particular, is truly special, as Jason makes clear in his analysis below. As for what I have to say about this machine? Well, naturally I slid underneath to look at the hardware. Now that we know what we’re looking at, let’s check out what’s going on underneath....

It was under these dangerously balmy conditions late this fall that I received a text from a longtime colleague and friend who is presently in the tow business named Todd: “Blue Jeep; runs. They’re getting rid of it today or tomorrow if you’re interested, my dude. Cheap.” You see, The Port City of Wilmington is home to my alma mater, The University of North Carolina at Wilmington, and since ’47, has been known as a college town....

I’ve been getting personal in my time here at The Autopian. I probably have a whole library of stories that I either haven’t been able to tell before or have been lost into the abyss of the internet. I’m happy to have great friends and editors here who let me pour my heart out. One of the most influential moments in my life was in 2018 when I took a little Smart Fortwo off-road....

Researchers from the nonprofit software group Mozilla looked at the Data Safety information of Google Play’s top 40 most-downloaded apps and rated these privacy disclosures as “poor,” “needs improvement,” or “OK.” The assessments were based on the degree to which the Data Safety information did or did not align with the information in each app’s privacy policy. Sixteen of the 40 apps, including Facebook and Minecraft, received the lowest grade for their Data Safety disclosures....

But it’s not a guarantee of quality performance. On the contrary, we can see underperforming email campaigns all the time and it’s important to understand what makes those attempts unsuccessful. Lots of details can turn a promising campaign into a failure, but some features proved to occur more often than others. Our post will focus on 10 major reasons why your email marketing is not working well. Let’s take a look!...

First, let’s look at how yesterday’s toys did: Close one, but the Baja Bug wins. I’m sure neither one will have trouble finding a new home, though; they’re both way cool projects. Now, today, we’re upping our standards (like Pat Paulsen!) and looking at a pair of cars in much better condition than our usual fare. These two are from a category near and dear to my heart: little British cars, or LBCs, for those in the know....

[Full disclosure: Toyota flew me out to their headquarters in the glistening, sun-baked sprawl of Plano, Texas, fed me good food and didn’t say anything when I stole several bags of expensive beef jerky from the hospitality table, even though I’m pretty sure they saw me. I had access to several 2023 Sequoias of various trim levels throughout a day, and it was on these drives this review is based....

Let’s check out these online proofreading tools and make the best use of it: The above-mentioned tools are some useful online proofreading tools that help the writers to get error-free documents. However, it depends on the user which tools the will choose but most of the professional writer use Grammarly and you can check out this review before choosing the best online proofreading tool for you.

Whether you want to disable notifications that spam your smartphone or you want to make online reachability easier then you should not fret as WhatsApp now has every such feature. While you might be aware of some of the widely used features but some of these are still hidden to many people out there. Since the upsurge of mobile apps has also brought an increment to companies providing Android app development services, if you happen to be a WhatsApp user then it is one of the widely used apps worldwide....

The ACP provides a $30 monthly subsidy to cover your internet costs (or a $75 monthly subsidy if you live on Tribal lands). The new program still includes a one-time discount of up to $100 on a laptop, tablet, or desktop computer as well. Along with a change in subsidy amounts, the new Affordable Connectivity Program includes changes to eligibility requirements. We’ve sorted through all the details to help you figure out whether you qualify for the Affordable Connectivity Program and answer any questions you may have....

Before I do that, though, I have to just take a moment and geek out about how happy I am to have this car back and how much I’ve missed it. I’ve wanted a Pao ever since I saw one in some car magazine in the late 1980s, when it was just a show car. It felt like absolute, impossible unobtainium to me at the time, not even a forbidden fruit, because if something is forbidden, then that means there’s at least a chance you might encounter it, and be told, hey, let go of that....

Also last week, Microsoft integrated ChatGPT-based technology into Bing search results. Sarah Bird, Microsoft’s head of responsible AI, acknowledged that the bot could still “hallucinate” untrue information but said the technology had been made more reliable. In the days that followed, Bing claimed that running was invented in the 1700s and tried to convince one user that the year is 2022. Alex Hanna sees a familiar pattern in these events—financial incentives to rapidly commercialize AI outweighing concerns about safety or ethics....

Akio Toyoda–who will step down on March 32st–will be known to many as the gearhead CEO. For reader, engineer, pro racer, and today’s COTD winner Anthony, Toyoda turned around his impressions of Toyota: I mean, Toyoda once brought a one-off Century GRMN to Fuji Speedway! Admittedly, there are some names that brighten my day when I see them in our comments. A lot of you make me smile, including Anthony!...

But imagine an alternate version of the 1939-1980 period, not one in which the war ended differently but one in which the war never happened. A world in which Germany and Britain remained unbombed and prosperous, freeing their car freaks to do what they do best: stupid engine swaps into cheap 1930s cars! In such a world, the knacker’s yards and schrottplätze would have been packed with affordable project cars, each awaiting an ill-advised engine swap....

The project, based at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, is called the Dark Energy Camera Plane Survey, and aims to index celestial objects located in our galactic plane. In January, the researchers published their second data release in The Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series, making it the largest catalog, or index, of stars ever collected by a single instrument, and one of the few instances in which we’ve turned a camera toward the middle of our own galaxy....

Looks like S.W.’s reputation puts his Jag in front! I’m inclined to agree: when it comes to cheap cars, how it has been treated in the past however many years matters a lot more than how it was built. Now then, today’s cars both appear to have the same history. I can’t be sure, of course, but both of these cars feel like something taken away from an elderly owner after they could no longer safely drive....

We’ll help you find the best live TV streaming service based on your budget, and ensure you have all your favorite channels and ample DVR storage to meet your or your family’s needs. Let’s jump into the details of some of the best services in the industry. You’ll find your well-known sports channels in the entry-level plan, such as ESPN, Big Ten Network, FOX Sports, and NFL Network. And you could say the Elite and Ultimate plans are for the sports megafans who don’t want to miss an Ole Miss college game or Rafael Nadal tennis match....

We’ll walk through the very best MVNO plans for every kind of cell phone user. But first, what the heck is an MVNO anyways? Oftentimes MVNO customers can have their data speeds “deprioritized” by the larger network during times of congestion. That means that customers that are actually on the parent network’s plans will get service priority, and others will see slowdowns. MVNOs are able to offer much cheaper pricing because they don’t have to shoulder the cost of building and maintaining a cellular network....