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The 40,000th Bentley Flying Spur just rolled off the assembly line

Bentley is celebrating a milestone with its new third-generation Flying Spur flagship luxury sedan. Marking the end of August, Bentley completed the 40,000th production unit of the Flying Spur at its manufacturing facility in Crewe.
It takes 100 hours and a team of 250 engineers, designers, and craftspeople to assemble each Flying Spur by hand. Out of the 40,000 Flying Spurs produced by far, approximately 50-percent are bespoke units commissioned by customers from two of Bentley’s largest markets: North America and China. The remaining 40-percent are sprinkled across Europe, Asia Pacific, and the Middle East while the remaining 10-percent is allocated to local UK clients.
The original Bentley Flying Spur was originally conceived as the R-Type Continental Coupe in 1952. It had a 4.9-liter straight-six 180-horsepower engine and a sleek body shape, allowing the car to cruise all day at 100 mph. Soon, the S1 coupe and sedan followed suit, but the arrival of Bentley’s new and more powerful all-aluminum V8 engine in 1959 paved the way for the arrival of the S2 Continental model. At the time, it was the fastest four-door car in the world.

Bentley built 2,308 units of the S2, with 128 examples completed as Continental Flying Spurs. The S3 model arrived between 1962 and 1965 and further encapsulated the Flying Spur’s reputation as the ultimate in four-door luxury performance. The Continental Flying Spur moniker was revived in 2005 as a four-door version of the Continental GT Coupe. It came with a W12 engine and all-wheel-drive and had a top speed of 194 mph.

Bentley dropped the ‘Continental’ name from the second-gen Flying Spur in 2013. It still came with a standard W12 engine, but Bentley added a 4.0-liter twin-turbo V8 motor to sweeten the deal. Meanwhile, the third-gen Flying Spur is still riding on the MSB platform shared with the Continental GT and Porsche Panamera. The Flying Spur is Bentley’s new flagship since the Mulsanne was retired in early 2020.

The 2021 Bentley Flying Spur is now available with a Styling Specification Package consisting of aero-tweaked carbon-fiber body kit including a new lip spoiler, side skirts, and a decklid spoiler. The new Flying Spur is also home to Bentley’s unique 3D wood panels and 3D-quilted leather trim to further heighten the luxury-performance experience. Equipped with a standard 6.0-liter twin-turbo W12 engine, the Flying Spur has 626 horsepower and 664 pound-feet of torque for a zero to 60 mph time of 3.7-seconds.
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Today’s Wordle Answer #649 – March 30, 2023 Solution And Hints

If you’re still unsure, the solution you seek is bread. Certainly, the word needs no introduction, but its origins might be unfamiliar to you. Etymonline reports that its specific roots are uncertain, but one prominent position is that it is from Proto-Germanic “brautham,” itself from the Proto-Indo-European root “bhreu-,: which means to boil, burn, or bubble, a reference to the rising or leavening of the dough used for bread.
The same source notes that the Oxford English Dictionary maintains that the word derives from Proto-Germanic “braudsmon-,” which means fragments or bits, in the sense of meaning “piece of food.” Fun fact, the Old English word for bread was “hlaf,” which is the root from which the modern word “loaf” is derived.
Since “great” worked, well … great as a starting word yesterday, we repeated it today as well, and it delivered. There were only eight possible answers after it, and we made a lucky and correct second guess. We hope you finish just as fast, and if you’re in the mood for more puzzles, check out these other Wordle-like games.
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Microsoft Is Already Exploring Ads For Bing Chat

In a blog post published on March 29, Microsoft discussed the topics of boosting traffic and overall “value” for publishers in relation to Bing Chat. The company acknowledged the role that publishers play in creating content and the vital importance of advertisements, which fund the paychecks for those behind the websites. The company says that it has made it a “top goal” to “drive more traffic to publishers in this new world of search.”
Revenue is a key concern, of course, which is where the second goal comes in. Microsoft says that it is working on “pioneering the future of advertising” as it relates to an AI-dominated internet. How will it do that? Two possibilities were shared: displaying multiple links from publishers when the user hovers over a reference, and a revenue-sharing arrangement with publishers that could, among other things, involve putting ads in the chatbot. In the example provided by Microsoft — which is simply referred to as an idea at this time — the revenue would be shared with the publishers whose content was used to generate the answer for the user.
Of course, Bing Chat is only one player in the arena, with its most notable competition being Google Bard — though the latter is still very much in its infancy and was, by all accounts, a rushed project spurred out of desperation to stay competitive. It seems likely that Google will eventually embrace some sort of revenue-sharing arrangement of its own, but only time will tell how that works out.
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The 2024 Porsche Cayenne Debuts A Dramatic Dashboard Upgrade

For infotainment, the main screen is a 12.3-inch display that shows your navigation and music, similar to the screen used by the Taycan. Below that, Porsche put the climate controls. In a move that will make plenty of old-school gearheads happy, Porsche used physical buttons to control the A/C and heat.
Front-seat riders can enjoy an optional 10.9-inch feature on the passenger side of the cabin. That screen can stream media or allow the passenger to act as the vessel’s navigator. According to Porsche, a filter on the screen prevents the driver from getting distracted. Onboard Siri functionality can also bear the load if necessary. The interior also features a litany of USB-C chargers that can keep devices topped up and a wireless and cooled charging pad that can deliver up to 15 watts.
According to Porsche, the 2024 Cayenne will be fully revealed on April 18th.
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