Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent every weekday. A little more than 30 miles from Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris, France, another kind of church pays homage to movies, TV shows, and cultural touchpoints. Billing itself as "the temple of pop culture," Pop Central Museum in Étréchy is now selling off an impressive collection of original stunt cars. The vehicles up for sale were used in the franchise,,,, and . Others are replicas seen in classics like, (in all of its late 1960-era glory),, and movies.

The ability to convey relevant and faithful information is critical for many tasks in conditional generation and yet remains elusive for neural seq-to-seq models whose outputs often reveal hallucinations and fail to correctly cover important details. In this work, we advocate planning as a useful intermediate representation for rendering conditional generation less opaque and more grounded. Our work proposes a new conceptualization of text plans as a sequence of question-answer (QA) pairs. We enhance existing datasets (e.g., for summarization) with a QA blueprint operating as a proxy for both content selection (i.e.,~what to say) and planning (i.e.,~in what order). We obtain blueprints automatically by exploiting state-of-the-art question generation technology and convert input-output pairs into input-blueprint-output tuples. We develop Transformer-based models, each varying in how they incorporate the blueprint in the generated output (e.g., as a global plan or iteratively). Evaluation across metrics and datasets demonstrates that blueprint models are more factual than alternatives which do not resort to planning and allow tighter control of the generation output.

The 2021 Ford Mustang Mach 1 is the latest in a line of high performance Mustangs that dates back to 1969 and very different than the brand's other "Mach" model, according to Fox News Autos Editor Gary Gastelu. It is called a manual transmission, not a mani/pedi transmission, after all. Ford has filed a patent for a new manual transmission that would make the clutch pedal optional. Ford has filed a patent for a manual transmission that has a clutch pedal you only have to use when you feel like it. The design was first reported on by Muscle Cars & Trucks combines a conventional stick shift for changing gears with a pedal that's electronically connected to the clutch.

After all the teasing, coaxing and interviews, OnePlus didn't have much else to say about its big return to keenly priced smartphones. At under $500, the OnePlus Nord sounds like yet another polished midrange device for anyone not sold on flagship phones that cost double that amount. But it has a huge 90Hz screen, a 48-megapixel camera sensor and 5G connectivity -- it's a lot of phone for the money. And while it all sounds pretty good (especially in the matching ear buds) you'll probably never get a chance to buy one if you're in the US. The phone will launch in India and Europe, with a few devices seeded to OnePlus die-hards in the States.

Nearly two months into 2019, it's been a mostly quiet year for Tesla. It closed 2018 with two profitable quarters and started talking up the much-anticipated Model Y. It laid off 7 percent of its workforce, but that seemed more a sign of understanding the difficulties of making it in a brutal industry than failing to do so. This week, though, saw the return of the sort of headlines familiar to those who follow the upstart automaker: CEO Elon Musk made a hard-to-believe promise about the state of Tesla's self-driving technology. Consumer Reports stopped recommending the Model 3 over quality-control issues.

The advent of new mobility options is supposed to be a great equalizer. Hailing a self-driving taxi will allow teens, people with disabilities, and the older population to get around as easily as people with driving licenses and their own cars. Scooters and other last-mile solutions like shared cars or dockless bikes should help people who live in communities underserved by regular public transit options. But this week some inequalities have been highlighted, which designers of this utopian future vision might want to fix. For one thing, women pay more than men in New York City to move around, for a variety of complex reasons. For another, Uber and Lyft have started loyalty programs that reward power users with perks like fancier cars, potentially creating classes of riders.

Goodwood Festival of Speed is the place to be if you're into cars and tech. The huge event in West Sussex has evolved a lot over the 25 years of its existence too, much like the vehicles it showcases. While a lot of those creations are from yesteryear, FOS always features the latest in cutting edge technology, some of which could be found in the Goodwood Festival of Speed Future Lab for 2018. Inside there you could also enjoy a virtual reality autonomous trip, but we managed to go one better and experience the real thing. This year, as part of the 25th FOS anniversary celebrations, Siemens came up with a cool idea by fitting out a 1965 Ford Mustang with all the kit to make it fully autonomous.

Fiat Chrysler's Ram also got big updates, losing more than 200 pounds and giving it a gas-electric hybrid engine option. Both the Silverado and Ram were given more athletic stances and meaner looks. Ford added a diesel engine to its F-150 and rolled out the midsize Ranger. Automakers turn big profits on large pickups. Sales rose nearly 6 percent last year to almost 2.4 million, even though total U.S. auto sales dropped 2 percent.

Henry Ford is often credited with saying, "If I had asked people what they wanted, they would have said faster horses." Though there's no evidence he ever said that, it shows up often in conversations about industry disruption. And Ford was certainly a disruptor who pursued mass producing automobiles, giving us the Model T and, years later, one other of the most popular vehicles ever made, the Mustang. Fast forward to today and the company admits that it needs to transform from a traditional automobile company, to an "automobile and mobility company." The disruption of the transportation industry by companies like Lyft, Uber, and others over the last few years has been remarkable.

This article is an interview with computational linguist Jason Baldridge. It's for anyone who's interested in, or needs to know about, natural language processing (NLP). Jason and NLP go way back. He joined the University of Texas linguistics faculty in 2005 and, a few years back, helped build a text-analytics system for social-media agency Converseon. Jason's Austin start-up, People Pattern, applies NLP and machine learning for social-audience insights; he co-founded the company in 2013 and serves as chief scientist.