BMW plans to release a fully self-driving car in 2021.

The German automaker has always operated on a 2021 timeline to launch its self-driving car tech. However, on Thursday, the company said for the first time that it will have a Level 5 autonomous car ready at that point. Level 5 autonomy means the vehicle is capable of handling any driving situation in any area without human intervention. 

Most automakers are planning to release Level 4 self-driving cars in the next 5 years, which means they are driverless but can only operate in select areas.

Last October, BMW put together a line of futuristic concept vehicles to explore what the next century of driving could look like. The line consists of driverless concept cars and even a futuristic motorcycle.

Scroll down for a closer look:

SEE ALSO: BMW created a stunning motorcycle concept that comes with augmented reality glasses

1. The Mini Vision Next 100 concept car gives us a taste of what cars will look like when ridesharing becomes increasingly more popular.

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The car can recognize who you are when you approach it and will greet you with a light-up sign. It'll also remember your driving preferences and prepare the car to your liking.

That sure comes in handy if you're sharing the car with more than one other person!

The interior is sleek and clear of any clutter. If you choose to drive it yourself, a heads-up display will show you useful information like where you are on your route.

President Trump's administration released its first budget on Thursday, and it includes proposals to slash federal funding.

The budget proposes to cut off funding to 19 federal agencies — amounting to about $3 billion — including the National Endowment for the Humanities and the Corporation for National and Community Service, which administers the AmeriCorps program.

The proposed budget deals with discretionary spending and must pass through the Republican-controlled Congress before it can be enacted.

Here are the 19 federal agencies that will get the ax if Trump's budget passes:

SEE ALSO: Here are the biggest winners and losers in Trump's first budget

Corporation for Public Broadcasting

2017 budget: $445 million

PBS and NPR are part of the Corporation for Public Broadcasting and could take a massive hit if Trump's budget passes Congress. However, The Washington Post reports that the CPB is only a small part of NPR's and PBS's funding, so the budget cuts would primarily affect local public news outlets, which receive 90% of the CPB $445 million budget.

Corporation for National and Community Service

2017 budget: $1.1 billion

The Corporation for National and Community Service has a budget of $1.1 billion, and it's the largest program Trump's budget will cut.

AmeriCorps, the program established by the Clinton Administration that engages over 80,000 people in service initiatives across the US each year, is housed within the Corporation for National and Community Service.

More than 1 million AmeriCorps members have contributed more than 1.4 billion hours of service since 1993. AmeriCorps runs programs such as City Year, which places volunteers into schools across the country that need the assistance.

National Endowment for the Arts

2017 budget: $148 million

The NEA supports and promotes artists across the US. It was launched over 50 years ago by President Lyndon B. Johnson and has made more than 128,000 grants during that time, totaling $5 billion.

The NEA has been a controversial program since the mid-1990s when conservative groups pressured Congress to cut funding after grants were provided to artists like photographers Robert Mapplethorpe and Andres Serrano.

"Piss Christ," a 1987 photograph by Serrano depicting a crucifix submerged in urine, continues to be cited by conservatives as a reason to cut funding to the NEA.

Each year on March 17, the Irish and Irish-at-heart come out in droves to pubs and parade routes to celebrate the patron saint of Ireland.

In the US, St. Patrick's Day serves as a valid excuse to wear green and drink. But there's enough rich Irish culture to last the whole year round.

We scoured Celtic folklore, online forums, the Bible, and even our favorite Irish pub in New York City to find some beautiful and just plain weird sayings used on the Emerald Isle.

Some of the sayings are historic, out-of-use proverbs with original Irish Gaelic translations (today, as little as 30% of the population in the Republic of Ireland speak Irish). Others are examples of modern slang said in English, the shared official language.

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1. "What's the craic?"

Greetings like "Any craic?" and "How's the craic?" most likely confuse tourists because craic is pronounced like "crack."

The most straightforward definition is fun or enjoyment, and it can substitute for "How are you?" A typical response is "divil a bit," which means "not much."

2. “Away with the fairies.”

This phrase got its origin thanks to the folk tales about fairies picking people up and taking them away. 

Today, this Irish saying is used when someone isn't facing reality or is living in la la land.

3. "Quit acting the maggot."

In the Emerald Isle, if your friends are getting rowdy or making a fool of themselves, you'd say they are "acting the maggot."

This phrase could also be used to talk about anything that isn't acting properly, like if your phone is on the fritz or the trains are running way behind schedule.

Culinary explorers crossing America, "the land of the free and the home of the brave," will likely come across a fair number of people exercising their gastronomic freedoms in creative ways.

And by whipping up some local grub that — depending on individual tastes — may actually be delicious, or else might require a certain amount of bravery to even tuck into, different regions are making their mark on the cooking map.

In celebration of all of that's weird and funky out there as far as what folks are filling their bellies with, let's take a look at of some of American's most unusual regional cuisine.

Scrapple

Where: Pennsylvania

While many chowhounds undoubtedly love scrapple, this loafed dish definitely does not make use of the best parts of the hog. Scrapple, another dish originating from the Pennsylvania Dutch, uses the leftover bits of the pig (entrails, heart, liver, skin, stock, tongue), combined with garlic, onion, salt and several other spices, all mixed tighter with buckwheat and cornmeal to create a glorious pork loaf.

Insider Tip: The original recipe has been around for hundreds of years, although updated fusion recipes can be sampled in foodie enclaves like Los Angeles, New York, and other culinary hotspots.

Where to Find It: Groff's Meats in Elizabethtown, Pennsylvania

Plan Your Trip: Visit Fodor's Pennsylvania Dutch Country Travel Guide

Kool-Aid pickles (koolickles)

Where: Alabama

Who would have ever imagined the Kool-Aid Man busting through a wall and handing you a refreshing … pickle? If you happen to be hanging out in Alabama or Mississippi, as well as other locales in the Deep South, you can dig into a jar of sweet and sour Kool-Aid pickles (also know as Koolickles). But don't fret if you live somewhere else. Anyone who has access to dill pickles, sugar, and a few Kool-Aid packets can stir up a batch of these peculiar treats in no time at all.

Where to Find It: State and county fairs in the American South

Plan Your Trip: Visit Fodor's Alabama Travel Guide

Grilled gator kabobs

Where: Florida

If the gator doesn't eat you, you might as well eat the gator, right? Anyone who loves reptilian protein should be delighted with a pile of zesty alligator kabobs. And of course, Florida, with an abundance of gators, is the perfect spot for them. Lather up your gator with barbecue sauce, mustard, Cajun dry rub, or whatever else you'd normally use, then grill 'em and get ready to chow down while trying to figure out if they taste more like chicken or pork.

Where to Find It: Everglades Gator Grill in Homestead, Florida.

Plan Your Trip: Visit Fodor’s Florida Travel Guide

As Amazon and Netflix battle over which company makes the best original streaming shows, one big difference is in their respective processes for making them.

While Netflix has totally abandoned the traditional TV "pilot" system, and commissions full seasons of shows at once, Amazon has a "pilot season" where the company lets Prime members give feedback on which shows they want full seasons of.

Amazon's spring pilot season debuted March 17th. The pilots range from a superhero comedy set in Las Vegas, to a housewife trying to make it as a stand-up comic, to a chaplain sent into space.

Amazon has been ramping up its investment in video over the last few months, and previously said it was doubling its spending on video content in the second half of 2016, compared with the year prior. One expensive item was "The Grand Tour," a new show by Jeremy Clarkson and the "Top Gear" crew, which cost Amazon a reported $250 million.

That show was meant to supercharge Amazon's expansion into 200 countries, and proves Amazon isn't averse to spending big for quality shows.

Here are the 5 pilots Amazon announced Thursday, which you'll be able to give your stamp of approval (or disapproval) on:

SEE ALSO: YouTube thinks its new $35-a-month TV package has a secret weapon in the fight against cable

"The Legend of Master Legend"

Length: 30 minutes

Amazon Description: "The Legend of Master Legend" is a dark comedy about the life of Frank Lafount, a.k.a. Master Legend — a homemade superhero whose mission is to protect the people of Las Vegas from evildoers. Master Legend juggles the demands of justice with the even more complicated demands of his real family, who don’t see him as a hero at all.

"Budding Prospects"

Length: 30 minutes

Amazon Description: In 1983, three hapless city boys move from their comfort zone of the San Francisco counter-culture to Mendacino to grow marijuana. Their expectations of the experience being a back-to-the-land, nurturing adventure in a beautiful rustic setting run up against the harsh truth prior to their arrival at "The Summer Camp"– a miserably run-down shanty out in the middle of nowhere, where they are bedeviled by rats, snakes, mosquitoes, and harsh, unfriendly growing conditions, noisy neighbors, dangerous locals, and menacing law enforcement. The pilot stars Adam Rose ("Veronica Mars"), Joel David Moore ("Bones"), Will Sasso ("MADtv") and Brett Gelman ("Fleabag").

"The New V.I.P.’s"

Length: 30 minutes

Amazon Description: Amazon’s first adult animated comedy show, "The New V.I.P.’s" follows a group of low-level employees who seize control of a major corporation after accidentally murdering their boss. The pilot stars Matt Braunger ("Agent Carter"), Ben Schwartz ("Parks and Recreation"), Missi Pyle ("Gone Girl") and Jonathan Adams (Last Man Standing).

I still have vivid memories of those Thursdays when I was 6 and I'd hop into the backseat of my grandparents' Buick, destined for the Salvation Army in Camden, New Jersey.

We were there to pick up hot meals packed in aluminum trays, which we'd in turn stuff into big, insulated bags and hand-deliver to hungry seniors in the area.

That was just a small fraction of the people served by Meals on Wheels, a group that currently feeds 2 million people each year. But it was obviously important to those whose doorbells we rang. Many of them lived alone, and most said we were the only people they saw that day. 

If the new federal budget proposed by President Trump gets approved, the budget cuts could threaten Meals on Wheels' very existence by draining its funding. People who rely on the program for companionship and nutrition would be forced to find other options.

Here's what Meals on Wheels — a program founded on the gift of sustenance — is all about.

SEE ALSO: 'We can't spend money on programs just because they sound good': Trump budget would slash funding from program that feeds 2 million seniors

Borrowing from a similar model in the UK, Meals on Wheels America started in 1974 under a basic assumption: People may prefer independence, but not everyone has the means to cook for themselves — so feed them.

Source: Meals on Wheels

Today, the program has ballooned to include more than 5,000 groups supporting senior nutrition. Research has found a number of benefits from the program, including better diets, nutrient intake, socialization, and overall quality of life.

Source: The Washington Post

The program itself is fairly straightforward. Local community organizations prepare hot food or package frozen meals that volunteers pick up for delivery. That food then ends up in the hands of seniors who need it.

The anti-Trump boycott movement is still going strong. 

Shannon Coulter, a brand and digital strategist, started the #GrabYourWallet hashtag in October to encourage people seeking a way to take concrete action against Donald Trump to boycott companies — large and small — that do business with his family.

It seems the boycott is producing results. In February, brands such as Nordstrom, Jet.com, and Gilt dropped Ivanka Trump's fashion line. 

Today, Grab Your Wallet's website highlights a condensed list of the "most boycott-able" companies. However, the official, more extensive boycott list — which users can now keep track of using a Google Chrome plug-in — targets many more companies for reasons ranging from selling Ivanka Trump's brand, to being owned by a member of the Trump family, to having a pro-Trump executive. 

As of Wednesday, Grab Your Wallet's list of brands to boycott includes 51 retailers, from big names like Amazon and Macy's, to smaller companies like Wegmans and See's Candies. 

SEE ALSO: Trump's plan for what will happen to his businesses when he's president has a massive flaw

Macy's

While the chain banned Donald Trump's menswear line in 2015 after the president-elect referred to Mexican immigrants as "rapists," it still sells Ivanka Trump's lines of clothing, jewelry, and handbags.

Neiman Marcus

The luxury retailer keeps flip-flopping on whether or not it sells Ivanka Trump's jewelry line.

Neiman Marcus was added back to Grab Your Wallet's boycott list after two Ivanka Trump rings were spotted on the retailer's website in early March. However, with the demise of Ivanka's fine jewelry line, the retailer may not be on the list for long. 

L.L. Bean

Unlike many other companies on the list, L.L. Bean does not sell Trump products. Instead, it has been targeted because Linda Bean, a member of the company's board and the granddaughter of the company's founder, Leon Leonwood Bean, donated $60,000 to a Trump-supporting PAC called Making America Great Again LLC. 

Grab Your Wallet is calling for a boycott until Linda Bean is removed from the company board. 

Any Pennsylvanian knows the magnetic allure of Wawa.

The convenience store chain has recruited an army of steadfast shoppers; however, many Americans don't know of the superior chain, as its locations are limited to six states on the East Coast.

Recently, we ventured into Wawa country to get an idea of what the fuss is all about at the convenience chain and its rival, Sheetz.

We came away with a new understanding of the fabled chain and its fiercely loyal fans.  

Here's how Wawa won us over:

SEE ALSO: Applebee's, TGI Fridays, and Chili's are trying to claw their way out of a restaurant death trap

Our quest started off in the parking lot of a Wawa in south Phillipsburg, New Jersey, off Route 22. The gas pumps were plentiful and bustling with activity, but we were more interested in what waited within.

Wawa, with more than 720 locations in six states on the East Coast, is renowned for its high-quality inexpensive food. The vibe is clean and professional, yet unassuming. Muted yellows and browns are the key colors, leading to a relaxed but often bland visual landscape.

It takes a few minutes to even comprehend the array of food options available at Wawa. The well-stocked prepackaged section is ambitious and diverse in scope. Even packaged food appears fresh — not as though it has been abandoned on the shelf for untold lengths.

If you can't keep up with the times, your hairstyle might quickly become outdated.

Let's ensure that doesn't happen. We've illustrated below the prevailing trendy haircuts, according to our friends at Men's Hairstyles Now and their infographic on cool hairstyles for men in 2017.

Whether you go with the trendy fringe or the close-cropped style of the fade, one of these 10 hairstyles is sure to fit your personality.

SEE ALSO: 13 things every guy needs in his wardrobe for spring

Millennials will go to great lengths to live in San Francisco to pursue their careers. Some have even gone so far as to live in boats, tiny homes, or even inside homemade wooden crates. 

With the second-highest median rent in the US, the city has some new graduates spending up to 79% of their salary solely on rent. It's no surprise that residents are coming up with unique living situations in order to stay.

One such place is The Negev, a communal living space aimed towards those working in tech. One of The Negev's San Francisco homes houses 40 residents, many of whom sleep in bunk beds and pay $1,900 a month to stay there. Ahead, take a look inside that particular outpost of The Negev.

SEE ALSO: Immigrant tech workers in Silicon Valley share how Trump's travel ban has changed their lives

Located in the tech-centric neighborhood of SoMa, The Negev boasts on its website that this particular location "is home to dotcom giants like LinkedIn and Dropbox, [and] the San Francisco Giants stadium." There are three outposts of The Negev in San Francisco, in addition to locations in Oakland and Austin.

Residents like 25-year-old Zander Dejah pay about $1,900 a month in rent, according to Reuters.

The home has three floors and roughly 50 rooms.

As Tesla prepares for its long-awaited Model 3 launch, the company is also investing more in its renewable-energy division.

Tesla has had an energy division committed to selling its at-home battery, the Powerwall, and commercial battery pack, the Powerpack since 2015. But after acquiring SolarCity in a deal worth $2.1 billion in November, Tesla has doubled down on its renewable energy efforts.

The company released upgraded versions of both the Powerwall and Powerpack and also unveiled its solar roof product. Tesla is on track to begin producing and installing its solar roof during the second half of this year.

Meanwhile, the company is considering building up to three more battery facilities. Tesla's first battery plant, the Gigafactory, is located in Sparks, Nevada and is slated to operate at full capacity in 2018.

While Tesla ramps up its battery and solar division, the company already has 300 megawatt-hours worth of batteries deployed in 18 countries. Here's a look at some of the biggest projects — from resorts to entire islands — that are currently using Tesla's Powerpacks to help keep the lights on:

SEE ALSO: Tesla is rolling out its new Autopilot system this week — here's everything you need to know

Tesla is helping power a luxury lodge located sitting on the outskirts of Kruger National Park in South Africa.

The luxury resort, Singita Lodge, privately owns 33,000 acres of land in Kurger National Park, which is home to buffalo, leopards, cheetahs, elephants, and more. The resort itself has on-site solar panels running on Tesla's 3,150 kilowatt-hours Powerpack system.

Singita Lodge practices ecotourism, though it's certainly a pricier form. According to Travel + Leisure, the resort has 15 loft suites, spa, fitness center, smoothie and espresso bar, and gym. A villa costs 17,9025 rand ($13,285) a night. 

The resort says team members lead conservation efforts like the rehabilitation and maintenance of land, wildlife monitoring, and fencing security to initiate anti-poaching methods.

Tesla is also powering another luxury resort on Malolo Island, a volcanic island in Fiji.

Called Vunabaka, the resort sells properties priced as high as $2.5 million. A 2014 New Zealand Herald article said the properties were sold largely "through word of mouth" to people from New Zealand, Australia, and the United States.

The resort generates electricity via a 1-megawatt solar array powered by 20 Tesla Powerpacks.

Tesla was selected by energy company Southern California Edison to build a 20-megawatt battery system that can power 2,500 households a day.

The battery project was built at Southern California Edison's Mira Loma substation and is the largest lithium ion battery storage project in the world. The system doesn't run on solar power, but is meant to offset the energy grid by taking charge during off-peak hours, according to the Los Angeles Times.

Tesla was chosen to build the substation after the Aliso Canyon natural gas reservoir suffered a massive rupture in 2015 that displaced more than 8,000 California residents. Los Angeles wanted an electric energy solution that could be more reliable during peak times.

Travel website eDreams has named the best 10 airports in the world.

eDreams evaluated over 65,000 airport reviews left by its customers in 2016 to come up with a list of the 10 best and the 10 worst airports.

eDreams said it took into account the global quality of airports, their waiting areas, shopping facilities, and restaurants before rating airports out of five.

"eDreams has once more evaluated the reviews made by its customers to create the ranking about the best airports in the world," the company wrote on its website.

While airports in cities like Bangkok and Zurich scored highly, their equivalents in cities like New York and Paris did not.

A separate ranking, based on data provided consumer-aviation website Skytrax, was published by my colleague Benjamin Zhang earlier this week.

=9. Dublin airport (DUB), Ireland — 4.04/5

=9. Oslo Gardermoen airport (OSL), Norway — 4.04/5

=7. Tel Aviv Ben Gurion airport (TLV), Israel — 4.06/5

Perhaps the most distinguishing feature of the old Roman town of Remagen, about halfway between Dusseldorf and Frankfurt on the Rhine River, at the end of World War II was the 1,000-foot, double-track Ludendorff railroad bridge.

Despite the bridge's presence, Remagen didn't really factor into Allied plans as they stormed across France and Belgium in late 1944. The geography of the town itself, with narrow roads and imposing cliffs, also made it unsuitable for a military crossing.

The swift Allied advance toward Germany was blunted in autumn 1944, however, by supply problems and renewed resistance by German forces, themselves invigorated by the prospect of defending of their homeland.

After Allied forces halted and flattened the bulge created by a massive and ferocious German offensive in winter 1944, attention turned to how to cross the Siegfried line at Germany's western border and the Rhine River beyond it.

Plans were drawn up to thrust into the German heartland north and south of Remagen. The US 9th Armored Division — nicknamed the "Phantom" division because of repeated German reports that it had been destroyed — was left in a backup role.

But fate, and a few thousand pounds of faulty explosives, soon made the 9th Division the first military force cross the Rhine.

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As US troops approached the Rhine River in February and March 1945, the prospects of finding one of the 40 bridges across the river intact seemed dim — until Lt. Karl Timmerman and the men of his company came across the bridge at Remagen.

Sources: Deutsche Welle, "The Bridge at Remagen"

Timmerman and his troops advanced through the town of Remagen on the western side of the river, fighting off German defenders. German soldiers on the bridge prepared the numerous demolition charges they had planted to destroy the bridge.

Just as Timmerman ordered his men to cross the span, its German defenders set off the explosives. Explosions rocked the superstructure, sending up plumes of smoke and debris. The US troops flung themselves to the ground for cover but soon stood up to see the bridge intact.

"I asked for 600 kilos (1,320 pounds) of army explosives; I received 300 kilos (660 pounds) of commercial explosives," Willi Bratge, a German captain in charge of bridge security at the time, told Stars and Stripes in 1962. "They were to be exploded electrically; we activated the detonator; only one charge went off causing a crater in front of the bridge.

"The main charge did not go off; a tank round must have hit the pipe carrying the cable to the explosives," he added.

Jacob Kleebach, then a sergeant of the bridge security force who became a carpenter in Remagen after the war, differed: "All those stories are not true. Nobody knows. It just didn't explode."

American troops scrambled across what remained of the Ludendorff Bridge, backed up by rifle, machine-gun, and tank fire suppressing the German soldiers attempting to beat them back. As they sprinted across the railroad tracks toward the eastern bank, US troops cut every wire they spotted, hoping to avert further demolition.

Sgt. Alex Drabik, running for his life through a storm of German fire, was the first infantryman to set foot west of the Rhine. Soon behind him was Timmerman.

Back in the US, on the evening of March 7, Mary Timmerman, at work at the Goldenrod Cafe, got a long-distance call. She was apprehensive. She had two sons in the US Army in Germany and brothers fighting on the German side.

"This is the Omaha World-Herald calling," the voice boomed, according to Ken Hechler's 1957 book, "The Bridge at Remagen.""Your son Karl has just crossed the Remagen bridge. You know what that means?"

"I know what it means to me: Is he hurt?" she replied.

"No, he's not hurt. But listen to this: Karl Timmermann was the first officer of an invading army to cross the Rhine River since Napoleon," the voice told her.

"Napoleon I don't care about," she said. "How is my Karl?"

You can easily argue that the Chevy Bolt is the most important car General Motors has ever rolled out. What we have here is a $37,495 all-electric vehicle with a range of nearly 240 miles on a single battery charge. GM took it from intro to assembly in less than two years, in the process beating the avidly anticipated Tesla Model 3 to market by ... well, by a year at least.

What we have here is a $37,495 all-electric vehicle with a range of nearly 240 miles on a single battery charge. GM took it from intro to the assembly line in less than two years, in the process beating the avidly anticipated Tesla Model 3 to market by at least a year. 

So what makes the Bolt more important than, say, the Cadillac XT5 crossover SUV or a new Corvette? 

The Bolt is a completely different kind of "halo" car. Like the Toyota Prius gas-electric hybrid 15 years ago — based initially on the homely Toyota Echo compact sedan — the Bolt is anti-sexy. Teslas, of course, drip sex appeal.

We all know, however, that mass-market car buyers don't buy sexy. They bought the Prius because it promised low emissions and great fuel economy. And GM is begging that they'll buy the Bolt because it represents more of an idea about mobility than a specific experience of an automobile. The Bolt is accessible, affordable, versatile, high-tech, and is adaptable to ride-sharing and ride-hailing. It's also fun, but not crazy-knock-your-socks-off fun. 

A platform, not business as usual

In short, the Bolt is a platform rather than a commitment to a reliable automotive premise. For that, GM has Corvettes and Camaros — cars that do their thing and do it well, but that aren't flexible. 

The Bolt was designed and engineered to give GM options. They'll sell some, they'll lease some, but they'll also plug the Bolt into GM's Maven mobility division and into its partnership with Lyft for ride-hailing. They'll build in self-driving technologies developed both in-house and technologies acquired through the company's purchase of Silicon Valley startup Cruise Automation.

For a decade, Tesla has given us the car of the future: a sexy, high-performance, networked, and lately semi-self-driving luxury electric car. Last year, Chevy brought us the new car of the future: relatively inexpensive, with decent performance, also networked, and most importantly, plugged into multiple business models. Oh, and it's manufactured at massive industrial scale in the USA.

The Bolt has been on sale in California and Oregon since last year and should appear in the Northeast in a few months. We were lucky enough to get our hands on a well-optioned 2017 Bolt Premier, tipping the cost scales at $43,015 (Chevy is offering only two trim levels of the car, the LT being the base version). We'd driven pre-production versions of the vehicle, but this was our first crack at sampling its talents in the wilds of the New York-New Jersey area.

Here's how it went:

Photos by Hollis Johnson.

SEE ALSO: The Chevy Bolt still doesn't compare to Tesla's Model 3

The base Bolt is $37,495, which means that a $7,500 federal tax credit drops the price to just under $30,000. Our tester was the Premier trim, which starts at $40,905. Once some options were added, we were looking at about $43,000.

Our "Summit White" bow-tie badged Bolt arrived just ahead of a blizzard in the New York area.

The Bolt was envisioned by the carmaker's Korean studio, a lab for the company's small-car platforms. Because it was engineered around its large, 60 kWh LG battery pack — which provides actual structural integrity to the car — the Bolt is distinctive within GM's global lineup. That said, it does have that compact-crossover-hatchback look.

Once again, Amazon Prime Video wants to know what you think of its new pilots.

On Friday, the company kicked off its newest pilot season with two one-hour drama pilots and three half-hour comedy pilots.

Instead of a bunch of suits debating what to greenlight, viewers can watch the pilot episodes and review them in order to help Amazon choose which ones it will order to series.

The stakes are pretty high for Amazon. According to estimates, it's investing more than $3 billion this year on original projects. And that means it's going to need to make more than a tiny dent into Netflix's streaming dominance and get a bigger share of Hollywood's Emmy awards bounty.

We watched Amazon's new batch of pilots. Here's our take:

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Drama: "The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel"

From Amy Sherman-Palladino and Daniel Palladino, the husband-and-wife team behind "Gilmore Girls," drama pilot "The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel" follows Miriam “Midge” Maisel's (Rachel Brosnahan) downfall from her perfect life as a 1950s Manhattan wife and mother to becoming immersed in the seedy downtown stand-up comedy scene.

The pilot's excellent cast includes Michael Zegen ("Boardwalk Empire"), Alex Borstein ("MADtv"), Tony Shalhoub ("Monk"), and Marin Hinkle ("Two and a Half Men").

Our take: The pilot is immensely entertaining, with crisp dialogue and smart pacing. Plus, it really captures some very unique cultural aspects of 1958 New York City, such as the Jewish upper-crust and especially the burgeoning careers of comedy iconoclasts such as Lennie Bruce.

Drama: "Oasis"

Based on the cult-hit novel "The Book of Strange New Things" by Michel Faber, drama pilot "Oasis" stars "Game of Thrones" actor Richard Madden, an ecumenical priest who is sent into space to help establish a colony on a distant planet. But once he arrives, he finds morale is low among the settlement team and there's an inexplicable force that makes the planet very deadly.

It also stars Anil Kapoor ("24"), Mark Addy ("Game of Thrones"), and a grown-up Haley Joel Osment, who played the young boy on "The Sixth Sense."

Our take: There's some very good acting on "Oasis," but the dialogue and plot can feel very predictable. There's a real urge here to show off the arid, yet beautiful surroundings of the planet, but a pilot is limited in the amount of character exploration that it can cover. It really only scratches the surface there while setting up what feels like the show's important plot twist.

Comedy: "The Legend of Master Legend"

This dark comedy pilot revolves around Frank Lafount (John Hawkes), who hits the streets of Las Vegas as low-budget superhero Master Legend. Charmingly delusional, Frank has to balance his deep sense of justice with the burdens of actual life and disapproval from his family.

The pilot also stars Dawnn Lewis ("Major Crimes"), Shea Whigham ("Boardwalk Empire"), and newcomer Anjelika Washington.

Our take: This pilot makes it tough not to love and conversely feel sorry for its homemade superhero. Its eclectic characters give the comedy so many directions to go, which makes this pilot a pretty good bet for a surprising full season. This definitely lives up to the expectations of a show that's produced and written by a team whose credits between them include "Argo" and "Transparent."

Testing out a new makeup technique can be messy, time-consuming, and expensive. 

But beauty brand Sephora is trying to alleviate the struggle with a new feature on its app called Virtual Artist, which uses artificial intelligence to virtually apply makeup, teach you new makeup techniques, and show you how various looks would appear on your face. 

It wouldn't be Sephora without some shopping involved, however. If you find a look you like, the app lets you know which products were used — at that point, you can then add them to your shopping basket and buy through the app. 

I tested out the Virtual Artist to see how clever its artificial intelligence actually is. Several selfies later, here's what I found. 

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First, you'll need to download the Sephora app. To access the Virtual Artist feature, click on the menu button and scroll down until you see it under the "Get Inspired" tab.

When you open up the feature, you'll have three options to play around with. I decided to test out the product try-on feature first.

You'll be presented with three different options: lips, lash, and shadow. It's probably best to try it without any makeup on to get the full effect, but it will still work if you have some eye makeup on like I did.

If the proprieters of a new West Coast restaurant chain get their way, the next iteration of the farm-to-table revolution might be what they call "sandwich environmentalism."

Homegrown Sustainable Sandwiches uses ingredients that come from the company's certified organic farms in Washington and California and other local farms. 

"Our idea is that if we thoughtfully curate every little thing about the sandwich — where the grains for the bread come from, how the animals behind our meats and cheeses are raised, what chemicals we're keeping off our fruits and vegetables — each sandwich will be a little bit healthier for the planet and for the people who enjoy eating them," the website reads.

We recently tried the food at Homegrown's first San Francisco location. Take a look.

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Homegrown, with its wood-paneled counters, chalkboard-inspired décor, and tablets for ordering, has the vibe of a Whole Foods produce supplier swallowed by an Apple store.

Menu boards showed the company's sourcing guidelines and suppliers. This level of transparency is hard to come by outside high-end restaurants and "Portlandia" sketches.

I ordered three menu items and a cup of coffee from boutique San Francisco roaster Sightglass Coffee. My total came to a whopping $48.19, including a 15% tip.

The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge are half-way through a two-day visit to Paris, Prince William's first since the death of his mother Diana in Paris almost 20 years ago.

On Friday night Prince William and wife Kate had dinner at the British Embassy in Paris with the ambassador, and said UK relations with France would be undamaged by the on-going Brexit process.

Paris was put on high alert by a shooting at the city's second airport, Orly, early on Saturday morning but the Royal couple decided to continue their French trip as planned despite the security scare.

Here's what Prince William and the Duchess of Cambridge got up on in Paris on Saturday:

The Royal couple began Saturday with a visit to Les Invalides, the historic military complex in the heart of Paris. It was during this visit that the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge first heard news of the shooting at Orly, according to the BBC.

Source: BBC.

During the visit to Les Invalides, which includes a military hospital, the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge met with military veterans.

The pair also met members of the emergency services who attended the Bataclan shooting in Paris 2015 and the Nice truck attack last year. Here the Duchess of Cambridge and Prince William talk to Jessica and Kevin, who were injured in recent Paris attacks, according to Kensington Palace.

Source: Twitter.

After North Korea tested a salvo of ballistic missiles designed to defeat US and allied missile defenses in the Pacific, speculation has risen about a possible US "decapitation strike" on North Korea. 

With the help of Stratfor's Sim Tack, Business Insider detailed how such a strike would likely play out, but in the interest of keeping the article focused, we omitted a major player — China.

Here's how China would respond if the US were to attack the hermit kingdom.

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China has interests in preserving the North Korean state, but not enough to start World War III over.

China may not endorse North Korea's nuclear threats toward the US, South Korea, and Japan, or its abysmal human-rights practices, but Beijing does have a vested interest in preventing reunification on the Korean peninsula.

Still, China's proximity to North Korea means that the US would likely alert Chinese forces of an attack — whether they gave 30 minutes' or 30 days' notice, the Chinese response would likely be to preclude — not thwart — such an attack.

China sees a united Korea as a threat.

"A united Korea is potentially very powerful, country right on China's border," with a functioning democracy, booming tech sector, and a Western bent, which represents "a problem they’d rather not deal with," according to Tack.

The US has more than 25,000 troops permanently stationed in South Korea, but no US asset has crossed the 38th parallel in decades. China would like to keep it that way.

And without North Korea, China would find itself exposed.

For China, the North Korean state acts as a "physical buffer against US allies and forces," said Tack. If the US could base forces in North Korea, they'd be right on China's border, and thereby better situated to contain China as it continues to rise as a world power.

Tack said that China would "definitely react to and try to prevent" US action that could lead to a reunified Korea, but the idea that Chinese ground forces would flood into North Korea and fight against the West is "not particularly likely at all."

Do you have visions of orchestrating mega-mergers, minting millions on bold stock bets, or managing billions of dollars in assets? Or, perhaps more realistically, playing with spreadsheets for hours on end? Wall Street might be calling your name. 

A job in finance can set you up for a lucrative career. And an MBA from a high-powered business school can help you leap a few rungs on the ladder and command a six-figure salary right off the bat. In fact, at the top-10 business schools for finance, the average graduate earns over $140,000 in their first year. 

That's according to the latest list of top business schools by U.S. News & World Report, which ranked 131 MBA programs based on criteria that includes job placement, starting salary, selectivity, and assessments by peers and recruiters. The schools were given a numerical score, with 100 representing the best possible result. Read a full breakdown of the methodology here.

In addition to its overall ranking, U.S. News ranked the best schools for various business professions, from accounting to supply chain logistics. And, of course, finance. For these career-specific rankings, U.S. News surveyed the deans and MBA program directors at various schools, who were asked to nominate up to 10 programs that excelled at the given career specializations.

Read on to check out the 10 top business schools for a career on Wall Street. 

Note: Tuition figures reflect annual costs for out-of-state students.

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10. University of California at Los Angeles — Anderson School of Management

Location: Los Angeles, California

Average starting salary: $140,457

Annual tuition and fees: $59,290

Overall score: 84

UCLA's Anderson School of Management prides itself on "looking to the future to discover and chart what will be." To that end, the school recently established an academic marketing partnership with Google to provide students with insight into Google's pioneering approach to marketing measurement and storytelling. Notable alumni include YouTube CEO Susan Wojcicki and a number of Google executives.

9. University of Michigan — Ross School of Business

Location: Ann Arbor, Michigan

Average starting salary: $145,926

Annual tuition and fees: $64,678

Overall score: 89

The Ross School of Business strives to provide each student with opportunities to advance their career, and it facilitates a team of over 50 peer coaches to help them along the way. Hundreds of well-known companies visit the school to interview MBA candidates, and top recruiters for the class of 2016 included Amazon, Deloitte, Google, McKinsey & Co., and Microsoft.

8. Harvard University — Harvard Business School

Location: Cambridge, Massachusetts

Average starting salary: $153,830

Annual tuition and fees: $75,353

Overall score: 100

The world's oldest— and most expensive — MBA program, Harvard Business School is also often considered the best for overall excellence. For a career in finance though, it currently lags behind a handful of other top-notch schools. 

The high average-starting salary its graduates command, the school's reputation with employers, and the HBS network of more than 46,000 living alumni make it one of the most coveted business schools for students. HBS's cadre of successful alumni— littered with politicians, CEOs, and billionaires — is unrivaled: Former New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg, former President George W. Bush, JPMorgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon, former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney, Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg, Blackstone CEO Steve Schwarzman, and HP Chairman Meg Whitman all graduated from the institution.