Kabir Chibber

A Tesla car uses a series of cameras, ultrasonic sensors, and radars that are interpreted by algorithms inside the onboard computer to present a vision of the the road, one that allows its Autopilot software to drive semi-autonomously for extended periods of time (albeit with a few crashes here and there). Tesla even says the hardware needed for full self-driving capability is already in place—it is the software that has to catch up.

A 30-year-old man in France has become the first to be fined under a new law condemning catcalling.

Earlier this year, the Tate Modern in London had its first-ever solo exhibition of the work of Pablo Picasso. What was unusual was that the Tate focused on a single year of Picasso’s life in great detail, with the work, across nine rooms, unfolding month-by-month in chronological order. Titled Picasso 1932, it explores a pivotal moment in the artist’s career.

The camera on the first iPhone in 2007 was nothing revolutionary, even for the time. It was 2 megapixels. You couldn’t zoom in on the photos, not even digitally. There was no flash. There was no editing of pics. And there was a single camera on the back—there was no front-facing camera for selfies, which had not yet been invented. Well, not really (paywall).

“At a football club, there’s a holy trinity—the players, the manager, and the supporters,” said Bill Shankly, the legendary manager of Liverpool soccer club. He added, “Directors don’t come into it. They are only there to sign the cheques.”

Apple launched the Newton—a handheld, portable, touchscreen device—in 1993.  Designed to fit in a back pocket, it was truly revolutionary for its time and probably the coolest product that Apple had launched since firing Steve Jobs in 1985. It couldn’t connect to a nascent internet and wi-fi did not yet exist, but it could recognize handwriting via a stylus—sort of.

In 1999, Amazon—then merely “Earth’s biggest bookstore” rather than a corporate beast that shall soon devour everything in its path—introduced and patented one-click payments. This was in the early days of e-commerce when people were fearful of sending their credit-card details online. One-click processing allowed the startup to keep customers’ billing details on file so that they could make instant purchases.

When Alfred and Marie Weinberger fled the Nazi occupation of Paris at the height of World War II, they left behind 13 paintings in a bank vault. These included a work by Eugene Delacroix and several by the Impressionist master Pierre-Auguste Renoir, including one of his last works, “Deux Femmes Dans Un Jardin,” purchased in 1925. It dates from 1919, one of Renoir’s last paintings, made at a time when his arthritis was so bad that he could hardly hold onto his paintbrush.

America’s biggest bank is stepping up where governments have failed.

The town of Dover is England’s closest port to the European mainland, separated from France by just 20 miles of water.

Something was off about Novak Djokovic during the last couple of years. In 2016, the Serbian tennis star seemed to reach the summit by becoming only the third man in history to hold all four Grand Slams at the same time, making him the undisputed world’s best player just as longtime rivals Roger Federer and Rafael Nadal were beginning to fade away.

The shortlist for the FIFA’s player of the year featured no Lionel Messi for the first time in 12 years and provoked a predictable outcry. French striker Antoine Griezmann said he deserved to be in the top three, instead of Portugal’s Cristiano Ronaldo, Croatia’s Luka Modric, or Egypt’s Mohamed Salah.

When Roger Federer played at the US Open this week, his tennis match took place in temperatures that exceeded 30°C (86°F). He lost—the first time the 37-year-old has been beaten by a player ranked outside of the top 50 at the event. “You just keep on sweating more and more and more and more as the match goes on,” Federer said. “You lose energy as it goes by. At some point, also, I was just happy that the match was over, I guess.”

In Gary Shteyngart’s first novel, The Russian Debutante’s Handbook, he related the travails of being an Russian immigrant in downtown New York in the 1990s. He then parodied his own book as The Russian Arriviste’s Handjob in his second novel.

More than 7% of Venezuela’s population has fled the country since 2014, according to the UN. That is the equivalent of the US losing the whole population of Florida in four years (plus another 100,000 people, give or take).

Shorting a stock means investors—usually hedge funds—are betting on a company’s share price to fall. Tesla stock owners should know this well. According to Tesla founder Elon Musk, his electric-car company is “the most shorted stock in the history of the stock market” as funds bet the company will run out of money before it gets enough of its Model 3 cars to the masses.

The fight scene is looking pretty good for the rest of this year. Next month, we have the boxing rematch between Saúl “Canelo” Álvarez and Gennady Gennadyevich Golovkin. Then, WBC heavyweight champion Deontay Wilder will face the unorthodox Tyson Fury. And in mixed-martial arts, Conor McGregor returns to the Octagon after two years to face the undefeated Russian Khabib Nurmagomedov in October.

Our species are called Homo sapiens and we are thought to have evolved around 315,000 years ago in Africa. For some time, modern humans and “archaic humans”—other early species of human that did not survive, like the Neanderthals who died out 30,000 years ago—lived on the Earth at the same time, often in the same places.

Pusarla Venkata Sindhu won a silver medal in badminton at the 2016 Rio Olympics. That makes her one of 28 Indian athletes to ever medal at the Olympics—in the history of the games—and the first to ever win silver. If you haven’t heard of her, it’s because she’s mostly famous in India.

Interstate 95, or I-95, is the main highway down the east coast of the United States. It is 1,900 miles (3,060 km) long and connects Florida in the south to the US border with Canada in Maine in the north. I-95 serves 10% of the US landmass and 40% of its population. It is the most used road in America.

A soccer team in England has painted the dressing room for opposing squads pink because it thinks it will help lower the testosterone levels of their rivals and give them an edge.

What could be the world’s first complaint about shoddy service is on a clay tablet that was first sent about 3,800 years ago in southern Mesopotamia from the city of Ur, which is now Tell el-Muqayyar in southern Iraq.

When LinkedIn founder Reid Hoffman told a friend he was thinking of getting a place in New Zealand, his friend asked if he was getting “apocalypse insurance.” He told the New Yorker last year (paywall), “Saying you’re ‘buying a house in New Zealand’ is kind of a wink, wink, say no more.” Fellow billionaire Peter Thiel, the Trump-supporting PayPal co-founder, bought 193 hectares of untouched land on Lake Wanaka years earlier, ostensibly for that very reason.

PepsiCo has acquired carbonated-drinks maker SodaStream for $3.2 billion.