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Seeking to preserve its heritage for a greener future, Toyota just unveiled two restomodded classic 1980s hatchbacks at this year's Tokyo Auto Salon, one powered by hydrogen, the other a pure battery EV. The Corolla Levin and Sprinter Trueno are both Japan-market variants of the sporty yet economical Corolla GT-S that was sold in the U.S. These cars were lightweight but low on power, and they are commonly known by their chassis code, AE86. While simple and relatively low-tech, these rear-wheel-drive machines became pop-culture icons in the 1990s thanks in part to the po[CENSORED]r anime series Initial D. If asked to list Toyota's most important heritage vehicles, you might jot down the mighty twin-turbo Mk IV Supra, the unkillable Hilux pickup truck, the wafting Toyota Century (Japan's only production V-12), or perhaps the million-dollar 2000GT. However, the most famous Toyota of all time is an underpowered hatchback with pop-up headlights and a speed warning chime that comes on if you exceed 64 mph. At this year's Tokyo Auto Salon, Toyota moved to preserve the heritage of this little car, building a pair of restomods at great expense: one powered by liquid hydrogen, the other with a battery and electric motor. Out of context, Toyota's efforts seem a little like GM's engineers showed up and said, “Good news, everyone, we've saved the Chevette for future generations!” However, the Corolla Levin and (more important) Sprinter Trueno shown off this week are far more than mere sporty commuters. In North America, these cars were sold as the Corolla GT-S, and they had a small but enthusiastic following. In Japan, they were known by their chassis code—AE86 or hachiroku, Japanese for eight-six—and they were rock stars. THEN AND NOW link:https://www.caranddriver.com/news/a42489630/1980s-toyota-corolla-ae86-tokyo-auto-salon/

With five eyes, a backward-facing mouth, and a long, claw-tipped trunk where its nose should be, Opabinia regalis is one of the strangest-looking celebrities of the Cambrian period. In fact, this ancient sea-dweller is so unique that scientists have never discovered another species in the fossil record that appears to fit into its alien-faced family. That is, until now. Meet Utaurora comosa — a small, spiky-tailed marine animal that lived a few million years after Opabinia in what is now North America. First described in 2008, U. comosa was originally classified as a relative of the fearsome Anomalocaris, a claw-faced apex predator that terrorized the Cambrian seas. But a new study suggests that U. comosa may have been much more than just another ancient predator. link:https://www.livescience.com/cambrian-period-opabinia-extinct-relative

For more than a century the scramble for oil unleashed wars, forced unusual alliances and sparked diplomatic rows. Now the world's two biggest economies are battling over another precious resource: semiconductors, the chips that literally power our daily life. These tiny fragments of silicon are at the heart of a $500bn industry that is expected to double by 2030. And whoever controls the supply chains - a tangled network of companies and countries that make the chips - holds the key to being an unrivalled superpower. China wants the technology to produce chips. That's why the US, a source of much of the tech, is cutting Beijing off. The two countries are clearly engaged in an arms race in the Asia Pacific, says Chris Miller, author of Chip Wars and associate professor at Tufts University. But, he adds, there's more to the race: "[It] takes place both in traditional spheres, like numbers of ships, or missiles produced but increasingly, it's taking place in terms of the quality of Artificial Intelligence (AI) algorithms that can be employed in military systems." For now, the US is winning - but the chip war it has declared on China is reshaping the global economy. The chip-makers The manufacture of semiconductors is complex, specialist and deeply integrated. An iPhone has chips that are designed in the US, manufactured in Taiwan, Japan or South Korea, then assembled in China. India, which is investing more in the industry, could play a bigger role in the future. Semiconductors were invented in the US, but over time East Asia emerged as a manufacturing hub, largely because of government incentives, including subsidies. This allowed Washington to develop business ties and strategic alliances in a region vulnerable to Russian influence during the Cold War. It's just as useful now, in the face of Beijing's growing influence in the Asia Pacific. The race is on to make the best and most efficient chips at scale - and the smaller, the better. The challenge: how many transistors - tiny electrical switches that can turn a current on or off - can you fit onto the smallest bit of a silicon wafer? "It's what the semiconductor industry calls Moore's law, essentially doubling the transistor density over time, and that's a hard goal to achieve," said Jue Wang, a partner at Silicon Valley at Bain & Company. "It's what enables our phones to get faster, our digital photo archive to get bigger, our smart home devices to get smarter over time and our social media content to get richer." Getting there is not easy even for the top chip-makers. In mid-2022, Samsung became the first company to start mass producing three-nanometre chips at scale. Later that year, Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC) - the world's biggest chip-maker and a major supplier to Apple - followed. How narrow is that? Much narrower than a strand of human hair, which is about 50 to 100,000 nanometres. These smaller "leading edge" chips are more powerful, which means they go into more valuable devices - supercomputers and AI, the internet of things. The market for "lagging edge" chips - which power the more mundane bits of our lives, such as microwaves, washing machines and refrigerators - is lucrative too. But demand will likely wither in the future. Most of the world's chips are currently being made in Taiwan, giving the self-ruled island what its President calls a "silicon shield" - in other words, protection from China, which claims the territory. Beijing too has made chip production a national priority and is investing aggressively in supercomputers and AI. It is nowhere near being a global leader but has been catching up quickly in the past decade, especially in its chip design capabilities, Mr Miller says. "What you find historically is that whenever powerful countries have advanced computing technology, they deploy them to intelligence and military systems," he added. This, and the dependence on Taiwan and other Asian countries for supply, is rattling America. link:https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-pacific-64143602

Party sources said the Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz supremo has expressed his annoyance over the loss caused to the party due to recent political situation in Punjab. The sources said that Rana Sana was likely to travel to London on Sunday (today). The interior minister may be given some important tasks regarding the political situation of the country. The sources further added that matters related to the return of former premier and his daughter Maryam Nawaz and court cases pending against them will also be discussed. The sources said that after the defeat in the Punjab Assembly recently, Nawaz has refused to return to Pakistan immediately. However, there was a possibility of Maryam’s return at the month end. She would re-organise the party on the directions of Nawaz. The sources claimed that Nawaz had instructed his party leaders to prepare for general elections. link:https://www.thenews.com.pk/print/1030851-nawaz-calls-rana-sana-to-london

An award-winning photographer has captured the somber moment when dozens of colorful starfish set about devouring a lifeless sea lion on the seafloor in California. Wildlife photographer David Slater captured the haunting photo in the shallow waters of Monterey Bay. The dead sea lion and its compatriots swimming in the background are most likely California sea lions (Zalophus californianus), but they could also be Steller sea lions (Eumetopias jubatus), based on the two species' geographical ranges. The sea stars are all bat stars (Patiria miniata), scavenging starfish that come in a wide range of colors. The bat stars play a key role in recycling the sea lion into energy and nutrients, returning its remains to the marine food web. The eerie image recently won first place in the "Aquatic Life" category at the California Academy of Science's Big Picture Competition(opens in new tab). "I knew this image was special when I first published it but words cannot even describe how I feel taking first place in such a prestigious contest," Slater wrote on Instagram(opens in new tab). The image shows that "beauty and adventure can be found in unexpected places," he added. link:https://www.livescience.com/colorful-starfish-eat-dead-sea-lion

It is an unusual option for a January date, but after meeting twice, 42-year-old Sasha thinks she is ready to take things to the next level with the man she has just started seeing. She is planning to take him for a sea swim near her home in East Sussex, followed by a beachside sauna. “I’m just putting it out there: here’s my body. It’s not the body I had when I was 20 but it is what it is.” They have chatted a lot, first online and then in person, but have never been out to dinner together. “Oh no, I would never go out for dinner with anyone. It’s just so intense and awkward. If someone asked me out for dinner or the cinema, I know they’re not for me.” Asking someone to dinner is “unimaginative and boring”, says Sasha (not her real name). “I just think: snore alert.” She may, she admits, be unusual in her choice of date venues, but she is not alone in shunning dinner. Whether for financial reasons, the pressure of time or because today’s daters want something more daring, dinner dates, it seems, are dead. A survey by the dating site Match suggests the financial crisis is playing a large part, with 40% of those it polled saying the cost of living crisis meant they were going on fewer dates, and more than a fifth saying they would be put off if someone suggested an expensive dinner, as it would mean they weren’t compatible financially. Once used as shorthand for the start of a relationship, asking someone to dinner is just not how it’s done these days. Rachel, 35, has recently returned to the dating scene after a six-year relationship ended, and says the landscape is very different from when she was in her late 20s. “Thanks to dating apps, people’s dating throughput is so much higher. You might have three different apps on your phone, you’re matching several people every day. “And I would say that dinner dates – you just don’t want to invest in that. Not just the money, but the time as well. At least until you really know you’re going to have a good time – because obviously, you can’t leave early if it’s awful.” Then there’s the always awkward question of who pays, which, if you’re straight, is made even harder to navigate by changing gender expectations, says Mike, 31. He has only ever had one dinner date: “When the bill came, she kind of expected me to take it. And I said, don’t you think it’d be fair to split it?” The woman told him it was “kind of unsexy” that he hadn’t offered, but they eventually each paid their share. Things didn’t go any further. “A dinner date just sounds to me like I’m wearing a suit without a tie and she’s wearing a dress, and I pull out the chair behind her,” says Mike. “It’s not something I have ever done or would do.” Changes in dating habits may seem inconsequential, but they’re anything but, says Dr Julia Carter, a senior lecturer in sociology at UWE Bristol who researches romantic relationships. “It’s not trivial because it tells us something about what’s happening in society. “The idea of a dinner date feels quite traditional to us now, that idea of a man asking a woman out. Actually a lot has happened in our society [since that was the norm]. Dating is one of those aspects where women are starting to assert themselves much more than would have been expected in the past.” Dinner is also very public, she says. “One of the changes we talk about sociologically is that dating has become much more privatised. Thanks to dating apps, people tend to be sitting in their rooms on their own flicking through profiles, where in the past you may have had a social group where you’d all chat [about who you are dating]. So perhaps more private activities are preferred when you go on a date. Going to the park is much more private than having a meal in front of an audience in a restaurant.” For Corinne, 51 and back in the dating game after the end of her marriage, “there are so many similarities between dating and finding a job”. If thousands send in a CV, she says, “the first step is like a screening, when the headhunters call you up just to check you out. You want to quickly assess whether this is something that is worth exploring or not. And an initial drink is the quickest way to get that over.” In that situation, she says, you definitely don’t go to dinner. “That’s because you’re meeting strangers, and you don’t know whether you’re going to like them. 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In less than 24 hours I’m off to shoot a video review of The Auto Moto. It’s a 3 wheeled scooter that uses a 4 stroke carbon copied GY6 Honda engine. What makes the Auto Moto truly unique is its 3 wheel build: 2 in the back and 1 in the front. Thanks to the ‘rocker’ system, the 2 rear wheels stay firmly planted on the ground while the vehicle’s entire cab can independently tilt left and right providing a motorcycle like experience. Top speed on the 150cc Automoto is about 6o mph, but unlike most scooters you’ve got an entire cab (sans door) over your head in addition to a full windscreen with a single wiper blade. Other notable features of the Auto Moto include a storage chest that can hold at least a few bags of groceries, room for two, full stereo system, auto CVT transmission, front disc break, rear drum break (via pedal), conversion kits (TBD) and a variety of color options. Of course, if you want something for a new rider you might want a 50cc scooter. The Auto Moto should be hitting dealers in the next 45 days and will carry a price tag of about $3800. Course, that’s nothing when you consider the gas savings you’ll get with 83 miles per gallon. link:https://www.gadgetreview.com/the-auto-moto-zooms-to-the-us-3-wheels-with-a-2-wheel-motorcyle-like-experience

The Treasury Department announced it will start taking “extraordinary measures” next week to prevent the U.S. from defaulting on its debt obligations and potentially plunging the country into an economic crisis. In a letter addressed Friday to House Speaker Kevin McCarthy, Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen implored Congress to raise the debt ceiling and said the government will reach its borrowing limit on Thursday – the current limit is around $31.4 trillion. To avoid a default, the department will be reallocating federal funding to continue paying the government’s debts. The department is unable to provide a precise estimate on how long the U.S. can keep paying its debts before Congress needs to raise its borrowing limit, but Yellen wrote that it is unlikely the measures “will be exhausted before early June.” “It is therefore critical that Congress act in a timely manner to increase or suspend the debt limit,” Yellen wrote. “Failure to meet the government’s obligations would cause irreparable harm to the U.S. economy, the livelihoods of all Americans, and global financial stability.” The move is to cover expenses the government already has incurred, not to pay for new spending yet to be approved. Ultra conservatives on Capitol Hill have tried to use previous debt ceiling votes as leverage to exact spending concessions but have done so with little success. This time could be different given how much influence far-right Freedom Caucus members in the House now wield. link:https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2023/01/13/treasury-department-us-debt-ceiling-republicans/11047076002/

Pakistan, which Islamabad had been trying to find a resolution to the Jammu and Kashmir dispute since 1947 with India, said Friday that it would welcome United States' assistance in resolving the matter. After Narendra Modi's administration revoked the special status of occupied Kashmir in 2019 and released its unabated terrorism in the Himalayan valley, ties between the two nuclear-armed nations came to a stand-still."Regarding the Pakistan–India relations and the facilitation by third parties, including the United States, Pakistan has always said that we would welcome the international community to play their role in promoting peace in the region including in facilitating dialogue and resolution of the core dispute between Pakistan and India i.e. the Jammu and Kashmir dispute," Foreign Office Spokesperson Mumtaz Zahra Baloch told journalists at a weekly briefing in Islamabad. The spokesperson was responding to a question about Pakistan’s Ambassador to US Masood Khan's recent statement, wherein he hinted at America's possible mediation for the Kashmir dispute's resolution. In 2021, then-US president Donald Trump said the Washington administration was watching developments between India and Pakistan over Kashmir “very closely” and was prepared to help if necessary. “Trade is going to be of very, very paramount importance ... and we’re working together on some borders, and we’re talking about Kashmir in relation to what is going on with Pakistan and India. And if we can help we certainly will be helping,” he had said. Islamabad and New Delhi in November 2003 agreed to a ceasefire along the Line of Control (LoC) and the Working Boundary, but the truce was breached repeatedly after Modi came into power in 2014. To a question about Modi's possible visit in April 2021, the spokesperson declined to comment, saying: "You know very well, we do not speak about speculative reporting." The spokesperson also said that India was continuing its attempts to perpetuate its occupation by colonising the occupied territory, including the systematically dispossessing Kashmiris of their lands. Last month, she said, the occupying authorities introduced new land lease rules, depriving the local farmers, hoteliers and businessmen of their long-held lands on lease. "The local authorities have also intensified their campaign to seal or attach the properties of activists and resistance leaders," the FO spokesperson said. Under the amended Land Revenue Act, Baloch said, non-Kashmiris can purchase agricultural land for commercial and other non-agricultural purposes. The Indian army, she said, had been given sweeping powers to take possession of agricultural land and residential areas in any part of IIOJK, after declaring them as “strategic”. Reportedly, over 430,000 Kanals of land are already under illegal possession by the Indian military and paramilitary forces, the spokesperson added. "These developments are yet another manifestation of India’s colonial-settler mindset and its designs to expand control over Kashmiri lands, which is a clear violation of international law and the obligations of the occupying power towards occupied lands. "Pakistan will continue to extend unstinted moral, political and diplomatic support to the people of Jammu and Kashmir in their quest for self-determination in accordance with the relevant UN Security Council resolutions," she concluded. link:https://www.thenews.com.pk/latest/1030310-pakistan-to-welcome-us-brokered-talks-with-india-over-kashmir-issue

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ABU DHABI: Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif on Thursday met UAE President Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan wherein the latter agreed to rollover an existing loan of US$2 billion and provide an additional loan of US$1 billion, Federal Information Minister Marriyum Aurangzeb shared. In the meeting that took place in Abu Dhabi during the premier's two-day visit, both sides agreed to deepen investment cooperation, stimulate partnerships and enable investment integration opportunities between the two countries. Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed welcomed PM Shehbaz to Abu Dhabi and wished progress and prosperity for Pakistan. He praised the historical relations between the two nations and the valuable contributions made by the Pakistani community in the UAE, the information minister wrote on Twitter. The prime minister thanked the UAE president for inviting him to the brotherly country. The two leaders discussed the fraternal relations existing between Pakistan and the UAE and explored ways and means to further strengthen these ties, especially in the fields of trade, investment and energy. The two leaders also had an exchange of views on regional and international issues of mutual interest. They also expressed satisfaction over the pace of steady progress in bilateral relations. They agreed on the importance of enhanced bilateral exchanges and regular dialogue at all levels to further solidify and provide momentum to the relationship. Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif invited Sheikh Mohamed Bin Zayed for a state visit to Pakistan to which he agreed. The dates will be decided through diplomatic channels. Ahead of his departure to the UAE, PM Shehbaz, in a tweet, had said both Pakistan and the UAE share a resolve and understanding that continuous efforts need to be made to further strengthen trade, investment and economic relations. link: https://www.thenews.com.pk/latest/1029867-uae-agrees-to-roll-over-existing-loan-of-2b-provide-1b-additional-loan-to-pakistan

President Dr Arif Alvi expressed serious concerns regarding Pakistan's economy and said that if all stakeholders, including political parties, don't ignore or put aside their differences and start discussions, the economic situation may worsen. He said it was imperative to bring down the country's political temperature and that he had "offered dialogue among all stakeholders" for this purpose.In an exclusive interview with BBC Urdu, President Alvi said that the current coalition government is being "evasive" in talks with the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI). According to him, during the last one month, there has been no communication between the PTI and coalition government and no response has been received over requests for negotiations. President Alvi also told BBC that former prime minister Imran Khan, who is also the PTI chief, had expressed satisfaction over the appointment of General Asim Munir as the current army chief when Alvi had consulted the PTI chair over it. However, he said that he was not playing any role in conducting a dialogue between the current military leadership and Khan. He emphasised on his offers of negotiations between the government alliance and PTI, saying he had urged them to "sit together". "I am not talking about Imran Khan. I am saying that at least the political parties should negotiate with each other. After that, the major figures of the [political] parties can also meet," he explained. Misunderstandings arose because of undue importance given to social media, he reasoned, expressing the belief that the country's decision-makers "are not able to handle social media properly" and that they should do a better job of it. President Alvi again highlighted that he had been trying to reduce differences in all these matters and would continue this process in future. "I held meetings and asked everyone to minimise their differences. When we give too much importance to social media in these matters, problems arise. YouTube was shut down in Pakistan for two years because the opinion-makers couldn't handle it," he said. When pressed if the cause of “friction” between former premier and ex-army chief was the appointment of then director-general (DG) of the Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI), President Alvi said that he would not talk about any specific person or incident. link:https://www.thenews.com.pk/latest/1029855-president-arif-alvi-bbc-urdu-interview