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The Range Rover Velar is one of the first applications for the new Jaguar Land Rover 2.0-liter four-cylinder Ingenium gasoline engine which is designed to offer smooth, refined performance. Technologies including an integrated exhaust manifold, 200bar direct injection system and a twin-scroll turbocharger are key to the engine’s responsiveness.

Low Traction Launch is designed to help drivers pull away smoothly from a standstill on slippery surfaces. Activated through the infotainment system’s lower touchscreen, Low Traction Launch provides a very progressive throttle pedal calibration, assisting in reducing the possibility of wheelspin2. Above 18mph (30km/h), the throttle calibration automatically reverts back to the Terrain Response setting that was previously selected.

“There is no difference between gold and rags,” Michelangelo Pistoletto, the veteran artist, once said. Mr. Pistoletto made his bones in the 1960s as a founder of Arte Povera, the Italian twist on post-Minimalism. Writing in 2001, after Mr. Koolhaas’s Prada shop opened in downtown Manhattan, the critic Herbert Muschamp noted Prada’s philosophical roots in Arte Povera.

If you’re looking for protection and relatively good looks on a budget, you may be considering Caseology’s Legion to install on your shiny new Pixel 2 or Pixel 2 XL. Like its very noble-sounding name suggests, it’s a strong, protective case. It’s also pretty good-looking, though it isn’t without a few minor flaws.

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Architecture students at Temple University in Philadelphia recently experienced the difference the addition of acoustical ceiling treatments can make in exposed structure spaces.

First featured on the Land Rover Discovery, the Advanced Tow Assist function offered on the Range Rover Velar is designed to assist drivers in performing potentially difficult reversing maneuvers with an attached trailer. Instead of steering and counter steering as normal, the driver simply guides the trailer into position using the infotainment system’s rotary controller and the Advanced Tow Assist system calculates all necessary steering inputs2.

“It’s been kind of a community project also with a lot of help from friends and neighbors and stuff like that,” Darwin said. “They supported Leighton all the way through high school, and they’re still supporting him now.”

Ive’s decision to offer choice was a challenge to Apple’s recurring theme of design inevitability. In one of our conversations, Ive was scathing about a rival’s product, after asking me not to name it: “Their value proposition was ‘Make it whatever you want. You can choose whatever color you want.’ And I believe that’s abdicating your responsibility as a designer.” Cook told me, “Jony has better taste than anyone I ever met in my life,” and Ive might not demur. Over lunch in an Apple cafeteria, Ive said that he wouldn’t think of challenging the technical decisions of “the best silicon-chip designers in the world,” who were sitting around us. But industrial designers, he said, are rarely offered the same deference—in part, because most people regularly make taste-based decisions, about shoes and lamps.

One afternoon, Ive and Bart André removed the bottom panel of a MacBook laptop, revealing black and silver components arranged, with unnecessary orderliness, on a matte black circuit board. Ive looked down happily. “This is such an extraordinarily beautiful thing,” he said. André noted that, in a competitor’s computer, the board would be green. He sounded embarrassed on behalf of that other machine. On the same table was a plastic model of an existing Apple headphone—an EarPod—the size of a golf driver.

Stylish and streamlined, Sena’s latest flip-phone case pops open with the flick of a finger and stays securely shut with a magnetic closure sneakily embedded within the case. It’s an attractive case for sure, lined either with soft microfiber or leather. The new Sena Magnet Flipper comes in either crocodile-embossed leather or smooth nappa leather, and a range of rich colors including the Croc Brown we reviewed. A handy card slot within case keeps credit card or ID secure. — Ami Icanberry