Bently Whets our Appetite with the concept of Advanced Driverless Cars

       When Siri just doesn’t cut it.

While this is great news for the average Joe, the rich and famous among us might feel a little bitter knowing they have lost something that makes them socially elite.

Thankfully, luxury car manufacturer Bentley has come to the rescue with its self-driving concept car.

THE best thing about driverless cars is the fact everyone will have the opportunity to experience what it feels like to be a baller getting chauffeured around town.

Bentley’s director of design Stefan Sielaff said the automotive company was merely upgrading its current ultra-luxury experience.

“We have had the equivalent of autonomous cars for the last 100 years, from the point of view of the rear seat passenger who had a driver,” he toldCar and Driver.

The ultra-luxury self-driving concept car comes standard with two white leather sofas, an elegant coffee table and a holographic butler.

Mr Sielaff said the holographic humanoid would function similarly to a Siri and serve as the primary interface for the vehicle.

The driving future has arrived

“Luxury is always related to service,” he said.

“People don’t like the idea of just talking to a hidden microphone. We are thinking of how to personalise the next generation of communication.”

Mr Sielaff did admit there was no plan to send the car into immediate production, but it showcased what Bentley were experimenting with.

“In our design studio we are working on the stuff that is on the market in five years time,” he said.

“We are living in the future and what you see here is the past for us and the present for you.”

Despite the emergence of competitor vehicles, Mr Sielaff is confident there will be a market for the ultra-luxury vehicles.

“The way of living is going to change dramatically in the next 20 years,” he said.

“If you look at the world population, three quarters will live in megacities. I’m pretty sure that not everybody will sit in public transport.

“There is always the demand — especially for luxury customers — to have a private sphere, their own private vehicle.

“Maybe a luxury customer will be part of a fast-lane club and the swarm [of other autonomous vehicles] will get out of the way when the big shark arrives — we are playing with ideas here.”

originally by Matthew Dunn for news.com.au

FUNNY: Bulldozers Battle Over Construction Contracts

Watch: Bulldozers Fight In Street



Life in China's construction industry is tough and new business is keenly contested, as shown by a bulldozer battle captured on video.

The incident is believed to have started on Saturday as an argument between two rival companies competing for business, according to Xu Feng, a local government spokesman in Hebei province's Xingtang county.

The demolition derby-style clash of heavy machinery saw the bulldozers ramming each other, with at least two toppling over.

Nearby cars were forced to drive away quickly to escape the huge cloud of dust created by the battle.

One bulldozer driver can be seen running from his flipped-over vehicle, leaving a friendly bulldozer to attempt to pull it up again.

Mr Xu said he could not give details about arrests or injuries, as the matter is still being investigated.

Real estate construction accounts for almost a quarter of the country's economy but has struggled in recent years, with growth down by two-thirds from its peak a decade ago.

The slump has seen related industries - such as steel, glass and cement - having to lay off workers.









culled from Sky News

The Jungle Book Flies to the Top of Box Office

Newcomer Neel Sethi plays Mowgli


Disney's remake of The Jungle Book has trounced the competition at the US box office, taking $103.6m (£73m) in its first weekend.

The live-action movie brings to life Rudyard Kipling's characters, including Mowgli who is raised by animals.

Director Jon Favreau's film stars newcomer Neel Sethi as Mowgli with Hollywood heavyweights Bill Murray, Ben Kingsley and Idris Elba providing the voices of Baloo, Bagheera and Shere Khan.

It was the third biggest debut of the year, after Batman V Superman ($166m) and Deadpool ($132m).

Barbershop: The Next Cut, the latest installment in the comedy franchise, was a distant second in its debut with $20.2m, according to estimates from industry tracker Exhibitor Relations.

Jungle Book Roars Back To Life

Featuring Ice Cube and Cedric the Entertainer, the movie centres around the personalities in a barbershop who try to stop the violence plaguing their south Chicago neighbourhood.

Slapstick comedy The Boss slipped to third place after its second week in cinemas, taking $10.2m over the weekend, lifting its total domestic take to $40.4m.

Starring Melissa McCarthy, The Boss tells of a billionaire who emerges penniless from a spell in jail for insider trading and is forced to move in with a former employee.

culled from Sky News

Rihanna Sits at Number One in Billboard Chart for the Ninth Week

Im sure this song is not new to you! This is a smashing hit song by Rihanna who featured Drake. Now get the full gist:

Rihanna is at number one on the Billboard Hot 100 for a ninth week with her smash hit song “Work.”

The 28-year-old singer now has the distinction of spending the second most weeks at number one on the chart behind Mariah Carey.

Rihanna has spent 60 weeks at number one, topping The Beatles‘ 59 weeks. Sitting at number one is Mariah with 79 weeks.

Another milestone on the chart this week is that Justin Bieber‘s “Love Yourself” has broken the record for the most consecutive weeks in the top ten for a song that debuted in the top ten!

Coming in at number two was Desiigner‘s song “Panda” and the margin between the top two songs was reportedly very small this week. Could the song reach the top next week? We’ll have to wait and see!

Kendrick Lamar sued for copying

Trouble ... Kendrick Lamar is being sued by soul legend Bill Withers over copyright infringement. Picture: Gustavo Caballero/Getty Images for Turner

Don't think it's only the up and coming that copy songs, this bring to your notice that big names also do.


From the information gathered, Kendrick Lamar is being sued for allegedly using the music from one of soul legend Bill Withers’ songs without permission.

Withers’ company Mattie Music has filed a lawsuit in which it is claimed Lamar rapped over the top of the musician’s recording Don’t You Want To Stay.

According to a complaint filed in Los Angeles federal court, Lamar added his own lyrics to a “direct and complete copy” of Withers’ music to create I Do This, resulting in copyright infringement.

Kendrick Lamar's I Do This

According to TMZ, the lawsuit states the song “consists of nothing more than new rap and hip hop lyrics set to the existing music of Don’t You Want To Stay”.


Lamar, has ignored demands to stop exploiting Withers’ music, and admitted to copying it “with a thumb to the nose, catch me if you can attitude”, the complaint said.


Interestingly, Lamar released the song twice — firstly, on the rapper’s Kendrick Lamar EP, which was released back in 2009, and then again as a remix on his 2010 album Overly Dedicated.

Legend ... Bill Withers has had a stellar career. Picture: Splash NewsSource:Supplied

Superstar ... Kendrick Lamar is the biggest name in hip hop. Picture: Emma McIntyre/Getty Images for MTVSource:Getty Images

Don’t You Want To Stay was a track from Withers’ 1975 album Making Music.
The lawsuit was filed in the same court where a jury, in 2015, awarded singer Marvin Gaye’s family $9.6 million after finding that the Robin Thicke and Pharrell Williams 2013 smash hit Blurred Lines copied parts of Gaye’s 1977 song Got to Give It Up.

Lamar is currently the biggest name in hip hop, but Withers is something of a legend.

The 77-year-old is responsible for a string of massive hits, including Lean on Me,Ain’t No Sunshine, Just the Two of Us and Use Me.

More recently, he was inducted into the Rock And Roll Hall Of fame in 2015 by fellow legend Stevie Wonder.

Bill Withers' Don't You Want To Stay

culled from news.com.au

Noiseless Party in Enugu: How it went down!

Wonder what went down in Enugu on Friday? MTN brought down the Noiseless party to the coal city. It is the first of its kind that happened in the coal city. The Noiseless party was brought down to the coal city by the biggest network—MTN. this party took place at Villa Toscanna hotel, in the 2nite klub section of the hotel.

The party which seems more like a club was hosted by two DJs spinning the wheels. More than a hundred people filled the club hall, dancing their legs out. the party alternated between noisy and noiseless. The most interesting thing in the party was when the whole show went noiseless. With the aid of a specially programmed headphones which allows participants to tune in to the music spun by the two DJs. This happens so that everyone would dance without a sound hitting the walls of the house, so that a by-stander would only see people rocking and dancing and hear unanimously people singing to no ‘audible’ music.

                                               when the party turned noiseless

The social media was stormed with several shares of the experience using the hash tag #MusicIsTheKey.

MTN also gave away faze caps to the attendees. So, when the train comes to your town, be sure to attend cos its smoking hot!

HOME ALONE: Macaulay Culkin reveals the Bad side of fame

Home Alone - trailer




Macaulay Culkin is living an enviable life.

It’s been more than 25 years since Home Alone was released but Macaulay Culkin still gets stopped on the street.

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The notoriously private 35-year-old former child star shares what he's been up toaside from occasionally touring with his band, the Pizza Underground. In a new interview with Vulture, he admits that he can pretty much afford to live a life of leisure without working.

So much so, that the now 35-year-old rarely leaves his Broadway apartment.

“I’ll take walks at two or four in the morning, because there’s nobody out on the streets and it’s easy for me to go unnoticed,” Culkin said in New York Magazine.

“And even if I don’t get bugged, it’s looming, it’s there.”

The former child star now splits his time between New York and Paris, and yes, he even gets recognised over there.


Michael Jackson, Macaulay Culkin and Ginny the Orangutan at Universal Studios in Florida in 1991.Source:News Corp Australia

During a recent trip to the French capital, Culkin walked into a cafe and asked for the Wi-Fi code, only to be handed a photo of himself from Home Alone.

“A waitress just gave it to me and walked away,” he said, “Their Wi-Fi code was ‘Macaulay Culkin.’

“When she came back, I said, ‘I like your Wi-Fi code.’ She goes, ‘Thank you,’ and I say, ‘C’est moi.’ She turned white and brought over the owner of the place, who said, ‘I knew you’d come here someday.’”

Culkin has pretty much withdrawn from the public eye since starring in films such asRichie Rich, Uncle Buck and the Home Alone films.


Macaulay Culkin in the rather odd looking film, Adam Green's Aladdin. Picture: YoutubeSource:Supplied

And apart from appearing in small projects like the upcoming Adam Green’s Aladdin, he plans to keep it that way.

“I’m a man in his mid-30s who’s essentially retired,” Culkin said to the New York Magazine.

“I kind of go where the wind takes me a little bit.”

So what does he do with his days now?

Painting, writing and “whatevering” ... whatever that is.

culled from news.com.au