Police shot and killed a parolee who was waving a gun around during a fight in upper Manhattan Sunday morning.
Uniformed police officers were at Nagle Avenue and Dyckman Street in Inwood around 3 a.m. when they saw the 29-year-old with a gun involved in a fight and ordered him to drop the weapon, NYPD Chief of Patrol Jeffrey Maddrey said.
“They observe a dispute,” Maddrey said. “As they get closer to the dispute, they observe a male with a gun in his hand fighting in the crowd. The officers exit their vehicle and give commands for the person to drop the firearm.”
Four police officers fired their weapons.Seth GottfriedThe man, who has had “prior contact with police,” was taken to Harlem Hospital, where he died.Seth Gottfried
The officers yelled “repeated commands” and then discharged their weapons, he said.
“They discharge multiple rounds striking the suspect with the gun about the body,” Maddrey said.
The man, who has had “prior contact with police,” was taken to Harlem Hospital, where he died, Maddrey said. His identity wasn’t immediately released.
Police shot and killed a parolee who was waving a gun around.Seth GottfriedUniformed police officers were at Nagle Avenue and Dyckman Street in Inwood around 3 a.m.Seth Gottfried
Another man in the crowd suffered a graze wound, but it wasn’t clear who shot him, Maddrey said.
Four police officers fired their weapons, Maddrey said. They were taken to a local hospital and treated for tinnitus.
Police were unsure what the disturbance was about.
Facebook parent company Meta Platforms (META) stock is getting cooked as the technology company spends money manufacturing virtual reality hardware, generating awareness, and finding friends for a future in the metaverse.
The advertising budgets of its customers are tightening as companies restructure costs amid macroeconomic challenges — which even leads an optimistic analyst to say the third quarter for Meta Platforms is ‘make or break’.
“I think the stock is back to questions around, really, core fundamentals,” AB Bernstein Senior Analyst Mark Shmulik told Yahoo Finance. “Folks can understand that that’s [the metaverse] like a more long-term initiative. I imagine investors would love it if they were spending a lot less on it.”
Advertisers tend to run digital marketing campaigns where the largest audience, targeting capabilities and conversion rates reside — for a decade, Meta subsidiaries Facebook and Instagram have been that venue. Corporate budgeting during macroeconomic uncertainty makes experiencing the value of ad spends through realized sales even more paramount.
“The macro environment continues to deteriorate. We think many ad-driven companies will miss their fourth-quarter earnings,” Needham Senior Analyst Laura Martin told Yahoo Finance “And in Meta’s case, not only is just the macro environment deteriorating, but they’re losing a lot of user time to TikTok. And that continues to happen.”
According to research conducted by Piper Sandler, TikTok is the favorite social media app among teens and the margin has only widened for the Bytedance-owned company when compared to Facebook and Instagram.
“I think Mark Zuckerberg is telling us he doesn’t think he has a core business,” Martin said. “He is moving to Reels because it competes with TikTok. He is moving to the metaverse, and he’s changed the name of this company, which tells me he doesn’t think his core business that he built 15 years ago is actually a business anymore.”
Finding legs in the metaverse
Facebook spent $10 billion in 2021 in early efforts to build the metaverse and Mark Zuckerberg informed shareholders in 2022 that the company will continue spending heavily to create the metaverse and will bleed money for three to five years.
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The big bet may have an outsized reliance on the ability of Meta to sell metaverse experiential hardware and a reason to be there.
“If you take a look at the motivations behind it, we’ve gone through these changes in the past from desktop to mobile,” Shmulik said “And so they [Meta] understand that at some point, there’s going to be another computing platform change. They don’t want to be stuck in the application layer.”
At Meta Connect, Facebook Founder & CEO Mark Zuckerberg introduced a $1,500 VR headset, with the prevailing plan that a suite of familiar workplace collaboration applications may jumpstart engagement in the metaverse.
Accenture, Zoom, and Microsoft also announced a metaverse partnership with Meta platforms. Microsoft offers a significant friend in virtual reality with the commitment to bring its productivity tools and gaming cloud technology to the experience.
“I think what he’s talking about in terms of changing the world of computing for consumers is really innovative and interesting and risky, but bringing on the CEO yesterday of both Microsoft and Accenture? Great — says he’s got some great enterprise partners,” Martin said. “And I don’t think consumers want to pay $1,500. I think that’s the exception. But I think Accenture can pay to buy thousands of $1,500 goggles.”
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A suspected serial killer in the California city of Stockton was arrested Saturday and police say they believe he was “out hunting” when he was nabbed.
“We are sure we stopped another killing,” Chief Stanley McFadden, of the Stockton Police Department, said at a news conference Saturday.
Wesley Brownlee, 43, was arrested in connection with six unprovoked murders of men ages 21 to 54 over the last few months. He was booked on a homicide charge Saturday.
Police said that surveillance teams followed Brownlee while he was driving, and stopped in area of Village Green Drive and Winslow Avenue around 2 a.m. Saturday morning.
Wesley Brownlee, 43, was arrested and charged with homicide Saturday, Oct. 15, 2022. Authorities believe he is connected to a series of killings in Stockton, Calif.
Stockton Police Department
“Our surveillance team followed this person while he was driving. We watched his patterns and determined early this morning; he was on a mission to kill. He was out hunting,” McFadden said.
McFadden added, “As officers made contact with him, he was wearing dark clothing and a mask around his neck. He was also armed with a firearm when he was taken into custody.”
Brown will be arraigned Tuesday and more charges are likely, police said.
The San Joaquin County’s Office of the Medical Examiner identified the victims. Paul Yaw, 35, was killed on July 8; Salvador Debudey Jr., 43, died on Aug. 11; Jonathan Hernandez Rodriguez, 21, was killed on Aug. 30; Juan Cruz, 52, was the Sept. 21 victim; and Lawrence Lopez Sr., 54, was slain on Sept. 27.
The men were alone at the time when they were fatally shot, officials said. All of the killings took place at night or in the early morning hours, police said.
Another shooting, of a 46-year-old Black woman at Park Street and Union Street in Stockton at 3:20 a.m. on April 16, 2021, was also linked to the investigation, police said earlier this month. The woman survived her injuries in that shooting, they said.
Police said that a motive is not known for the killings but it is believed to have been intentional.
ABC News’ Mark Osborne and Emily Shapiro contributed to this report.
The Queen’s beloved corgis appear to be in good hands with the Duchess of York.
Sarah Ferguson has shared the first photos of Queen Elizabeth II’s famous dogs since her former mother-in-law’s funeral in September.
The Queen was passionate about the corgi breed throughout her life, owning dozens of the dogs. She was often photographed with one or more of her corgis sitting at her feet or trailing behind her. At the time of her death, she owned four dogs, a source previously told CNN: two Pembroke Welshi corgis named Sandy and Muick, one “dorgi” (a dachshund-corgi hybrid) named Candy, and one cocker spaniel named Lissy.
On Saturday, Ferguson posted photos to her verified Instagram account that appear to show the two corgis Sandy and Muick.
“The presents that keep giving,” she wrote.
Corgis, a working breed originally meant to herd cattle, are known for their distinctive short legs and fluffy coat.
After the Queen’s death, a source told CNN that the corgis would live with Ferguson and her ex-husband, Prince Andrew. The pair divorced in 1996 but continue to live at the Royal Lodge on the Windsor estate.
Even after the divorce, Ferguson maintained a strong friendship with the Queen and the two would often walk their dogs together, according to the source.
It is not clear who is caring for the Queen’s other two dogs, Candy and Lissy.
On May 12, at nine simultaneous press conferences around the world, astrophysicists revealed the first image of the black hole at the heart of the Milky Way. At first, awesome though it was, the painstakingly produced image of the ring of light around our galaxy’s central pit of darkness seemed to merely prove what experts already expected: The Milky Way’s supermassive black hole exists, it is spinning, and it obeys Albert Einstein’s general theory of relativity.
And yet, on closer inspection, things don’t quite stack up.
From the brightness of the bagel of light, researchers have estimated how quickly matter is falling onto Sagittarius A*—the name given to the Milky Way’s central black hole. The answer is: not quickly at all. “It’s clogged up to a little trickle,” said Priya Natarajan, a cosmologist at Yale University, comparing the galaxy to a broken showerhead. Somehow only a thousandth of the matter that’s flowing into the Milky Way from the surrounding intergalactic medium makes it all the way down and into the hole. “That’s revealing a huge problem,” Natarajan said. “Where is this gas going? What is happening to the flow? It’s very clear that our understanding of black hole growth is suspect.”
Over the past quarter century, astrophysicists have come to recognize what a tight-knit, dynamic relationship exists between many galaxies and the black holes at their centers. “There’s been a really huge transition in the field,” says Ramesh Narayan, a theoretical astrophysicist at Harvard University. “The surprise was that black holes are important as shapers and controllers of how galaxies evolve.”
These giant holes—concentrations of matter so dense that gravity prevents even light from escaping—are like the engines of galaxies, but researchers are only beginning to understand how they operate. Gravity draws dust and gas inward to the galactic center, where it forms a swirling accretion disk around the supermassive black hole, heating up and turning into white-hot plasma. Then, when the black hole engulfs this matter (either in dribs and drabs or in sudden bursts), energy is spat back out into the galaxy in a feedback process. “When you grow a black hole, you are producing energy and dumping it into the surroundings more efficiently than through any other process we know of in nature,” said Eliot Quataert, a theoretical astrophysicist at Princeton University. This feedback affects star formation rates and gas flow patterns throughout the galaxy.
But researchers have only vague ideas about supermassive black holes’ “active” episodes, which turn them into so-called active galactic nuclei (AGNs). “What is the triggering mechanism? What is the off switch? These are the fundamental questions that we’re still trying to get at,” said Kirsten Hall of the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics.
Stellar feedback, which occurs when a star explodes as a supernova, is known to have similar effects as AGN feedback on a smaller scale. These stellar engines are easily big enough to regulate small “dwarf” galaxies, whereas only the giant engines of supermassive black holes can dominate the evolution of the largest “elliptical” galaxies.
Size-wise, the Milky Way, a typical spiral galaxy, sits in the middle. With few obvious signs of activity at its center, our galaxy was long thought to be dominated by stellar feedback. But several recent observations suggest that AGN feedback shapes it as well. By studying the details of the interplay between these feedback mechanisms in our home galaxy—and grappling with puzzles like the current dimness of Sagittarius A*—astrophysicists hope to figure out how galaxies and black holes coevolve in general. The Milky Way “is becoming the most powerful astrophysical laboratory,” said Natarajan. By serving as a microcosm, it “may hold the key.”
Galactic Engines
By the late 1990s, astronomers generally accepted the presence of black holes in galaxies’ centers. By then they could see close enough to these invisible objects to deduce their mass from the movements of stars around them. A strange correlation emerged: The more massive a galaxy is, the heavier its central black hole. “This was particularly tight, and it was totally revolutionary. Somehow the black hole is talking to the galaxy,” said Tiziana Di Matteo, an astrophysicist at Carnegie Mellon University.
The correlation is surprising when you consider that the black hole—big as it is—is a scant fraction of the galaxy’s size. (Sagittarius A* weighs roughly 4 million suns, for instance, while the Milky Way measures some 1.5 trillion solar masses.) Because of this, the black hole’s gravity only pulls with any strength on the innermost region of the galaxy.
Two gunmen opened fire on Russian military recruits at a training ground in Russia’s Belgorod region, killing at least 11 people and wounding another 15, Russia’s state news agency TASS reports.
The attack took place Saturday during a training session at the Western Military District, according to TASS, which cited the Russian Defense Ministry. The gunmen were said to be from former Soviet states. Russian officials have branded the attack an act of terrorism.
“As a result of a terrorist attack at a military training ground in the Belgorod region, 11 people were killed, 15 were injured and are receiving medical assistance,” TASS reported.
“The incident occurred during a shooting training session with volunteers preparing for a special operation. The terrorists attacked the personnel of the unit with small-arms fire.”
According to TASS, two individuals who committed the “terrorist act” were killed in retaliatory fire at the training ground.
The Russian Investigative Committee has launched a criminal investigation into the incident, according to a statement published on Sunday.
“The Main Military Investigation Department of the Investigative Committee of Russia initiated a criminal case on the fact of criminal acts in the Belgorod region,” the statement said.
The Belgorod region is in western Russia on the border with Ukraine.
The Governor of Belgorod city said later that no civilians had been killed in the attack.
“Yesterday, something terrible occurred on our territory, on the grounds of a military unit. A terrorist act was committed. Many servicemen were killed and wounded,” Governor Vyacheslav Gladkov said on his Telegram channel.
“There are no residents of Belgorod region among the wounded and dead,” the governor added.
Gladkov also offered his condolences to the families of the victims, adding that all of those wounded are “being administered care.”
Emmanuel the emu — who went viral on TikTok for hilariously pecking his owner’s phone as she filmed educational videos about farming— is fighting for his life amid a deadly outbreak of avian influenza that has killed most of the birds on the farm where he lives, his owner said.
Emmanuel is experiencing nerve damage in his right leg and can’t eat or drink on his own after contractingthe disease on Wednesday, content creator and hobby farmerTaylor Blake shared late Saturday on social media. Blake, whose family owns Knuckle Bump Farms in South Florida, said the farm lost more than 50 birds in three days — all but Emmanuel and Rico the swan.
Emmanuel — the roughly 5-foot-8, 120-pound emu, whom The Washington Post interviewed in July — faces “a long road ahead” to recovery, Blake said. But he is a “fighter,” she added.
Emmanuel the Emu has become a star of Knuckle Bump Farms’ TikToks. Taylor Blake, whose family owns the farm, helped facilitate Emmanuel’s interview. (Video: Annabelle Timsit/The Washington Post)
The United States is in the midst of a months-long avian influenza outbreak that experts have said is the most severe since 2015, when a “highly pathogenic” strain of the disease affected more than 49 million birds. The Department of Agriculture called it “the most costly animal health emergency” in its history.
Avian flu has spread to 27 states, sharply driving up egg prices
Blake said she suspects the outbreak of avian influenza at the farm was spread by throngs ofwild Egyptian geese, a type of aquatic bird known as waterfowl, who routinelyfly in “under the cover of darkness.” She said she believes they spread the disease among the domesticated birds there.
“The virus hit them extremely hard and very quickly,” Blake wrote on Twitter as she described the extent of her family farm’s loss: “Every single” chicken, duck, goose, female black swan and turkey at the farm died in just three days.
Emmanuel’s videos havereached millions of people on TikTok, Instagram and Twitter. Blake and a puppet of Emmanuel were featured on “The Tonight Show” with Jimmy Fallon in July,and Knuckle Bump Farms began to sell merchandise with the emu’s face on it.
Now, Blake wants to usewhat happened to her farm to raise awareness about the disease. She said she is “dedicated” to ensuring that Emmanuel survives it — describing a sling she and girlfriend Kristian Haggerty built so the emu could “start physical therapy.”
We put our brains together and built Emmanuel a sling so that we can start physical therapy with him, in the hopes that he will regain function of his right foot/leg. We have been tweaking and perfecting it over the last 48hrs. pic.twitter.com/rnltpoyzAE
— eco sister (@hiitaylorblake) October 15, 2022
In a video posted late Saturday, Emmanuel appeared alert, at one point looking straight into the camera as Blake showered kisses on his head.
Avian influenza is a viral disease that typically spreads from wild birds to domesticated birds through bodily fluids, including saliva and feces. In its highly pathogenic form, it is extremely infectious and deadly and cannot be treated.
The virus affects birds differently: Some are simply found dead with no signs of illness, while in others, it can lead to neurological damage, including seizures, according to the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission.
While experts say the risk of it spreading from birds to humans is low, it can happen and can cause severe illness or death. In April, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention confirmed that a person in Colorado involved “in the culling (depopulating) of poultry with presumptive H5N1 bird flu” had tested positive for the virus, experienced symptoms and then recovered. It said the health risk to the general population remains low.
Highly contagious bird flu circulating in D.C. region is not a danger to humans, officials say
The current outbreak of highly pathogenic avian influenza began in January 2022 in Canada and is believed to have spread from Europe. Wild birds migrating to the United States are thought to have brought the virus to dozens of states — including, for the first time, Florida, where the outbreak has been “unprecedented,” the commission said.
Blake said Saturday that she had been in contact with Florida officials, who she saidtold her that standing water left behind by Hurricane Ian, which battered the state in late September, had “made the virus run rampant.”
Florida wildlife officials could not be immediately reached for comment early Sunday. Various studies have shown that the risk of highly pathogenic avian influenza spreading increases with proximity to contaminated bodies of water.
Ian is Florida’s deadliest hurricane since 1935. Most victims drowned.
In a previous interview with The Post, Blake described how she began posting videos with the animals at Knuckle Bump Farms in 2018 to entertain and educate people about farm life. The first time Emmanuel interrupted her as she was filming a video on the farm, Blake was irritated and didn’t post it. About a month later, she was re-watching the video on her phone and thought the interruption was funny.
“I just posted it, not thinking anything of it,” she said at the time. It “completely spiraled from there.”
Blake said Emmanuel has a genuine “obsession with the camera” — and with her. “No matter where I am … he always has to be right next to me.”
Soon after Blake posted about Emmanuel’s condition on Twitter, messages of support began to pour in from well-wishers who have grown to love Emmanuel and his relentless pursuit of his owner’s cellphone.
“DONT YOU DARE DO IT Emmanuel Todd Lopez. You are the king of birds and YOU WILL SURVIVE!!!,” one said, using Emmanuel’s full name and echoing Blake’s standard rebuke for the rebel bird.
“We love you Emmanuel! You were put on this earth to bring joy to the world,” one wrote. “Keep fighting!!!”
A day after Angie Pina was expelled from the U.S. to Mexico under a new rule from President Biden for Venezuelan asylum-seekers, The Post witnessed as she illegally crossed back into America again Saturday.
Pina claims she first stepped foot on US soil on Wednesday morning, before President Biden announced Mexico had agreed to take Venezuelans seeking asylum who had been rejected from the US.
In hopes of discouraging illegal crossings at the border, the Biden Administration announced it will grant 24,000 Venezuelans humanitarian entry if they apply online and arrive via air — rather by crossing the land border as hundreds of thousands have been doing, with El Paso alone recording up to 2,100 migrants in a single day.
Pina was held by Immigration and Customs Enforcement in El Paso for a day and a half before she learned she and dozens of other Venezuelan women in the same holding cell would be sent back to Mexico.
“It was a crisis — we were all yelling and sobbing,” she said.
Asylum-seeking migrants mostly from Venezuela receive food and supplies from volunteers at outside of the Mexican Immigration office after being expelled from the US under title 42.Go Nakamura for New York Post
“One lady led us all in prayer, but that’s when reality set in. They never told us why we were being sent back but some Venezuelan men who crossed behind us got to stay.”
Friday, Pina was escorted across one of El Paso’s international bridges and released into Mexico, where a new world of uncertainty awaited.
“I’m a lesbian; I have one month trying to get here and I’m afraid,” the 33-year-old said. “I’ve gone through so much to get here. I’m broke. I try to lift my head up, but I feel like I’m losing strength to go on. I feel like I might as well step in front of a car.”
Pina and other expelled Venezuelans stood outside a Mexican immigration center where they receive basic services — like a place to shower and charge their phones. Early Saturday morning, she told The Post she was considering trying to cross the border again.
“I would like to try again because I can’t go back to Venezuela,” she explained, adding that she is an engineer in her homeland.
Asylum-seeking migrants mostly from Venezuela rest outside of the Mexican Immigration office.Go Nakamura for New York Post
“I don’t have money to go back. I left because I have a three-year-old daughter I was unable to provide for because I was constantly discriminated against because of my sexual orientation.”
Other Venezuelans agreed that they too would try to get back into the US, even if that meant turning to dangerous people-smuggling cartels.
“If they don’t allows us back in, we will go back in — legally or illegally,” said another immigrant.
“No one is going to go back. There’s thousands of Venezuelans on their way right now. They’re not going back.”
“I asked the Mexicans to deport me to Venezuela and they told me they couldn’t, so what are we supposed to do?” Asked Pina.
Expelled Venezuelans gathered in Juarez, Mexico said they had been left penniless through their journeys and couldn’t pay their way back to their country of origin.
By noon, Pina, her partner, and another Venezuelan woman decided to try their luck again and walked over the Rio Grande to El Paso, where they again surrendered themselves to a Border Patrol agent.
She was then taken to another holding cell where she would find out her fate — which was most likely to be deported again.
If the situation continues as it has so far this season, Rams former starting running back Cam Akers has played his last down with the team.
Sources say Akers, who is out today due to what was described as personal reasons, has philosophical and football-related differences with head coach Sean McVay. The coach has left Akers’ future open, and sources say the third-year pro could be on the way out.
The belief is that he’ll draw significant trade interest, and the team is open to a deal for the right value.
The Super Bowl champs will make Akers inactive for Sunday’s game against the Panthers, with McVay, when pressed, saying Friday, “I would say it’s more like we’re dealing with things internally. This is kind of unchartered territory and I think the biggest thing is, out of respect for the situation, we want to keep it internally.”
McVay added, “He’s going to be OK.”
The Rams will utilize running backs Malcolm Brown and Darrell Henderson today, along with recently elevated undrafted rookie Ronnie Rivers, who has impressed and should get carries.
Akers emerged as the Rams’ go-to runner as a rookie during the 2020 season, averaging 4.3 yards per rush and setting himself up for a monster 2021.
But Akers tore his Achilles before the season, setting up a miraculous recovery that saw him play late in the season and into the Super Bowl. Talent-wise, there is no question with Akers. His athleticism numbers are better now than before his Achilles injury, sources say. Two fumbles against the Bucs in the playoffs last season took his situation downward and frustration from all parties was the result.
Sources say the communication between Akers and McVay has remained cordial, and Akers has caused no problems inside the locker room. But questions about his role, where he belongs and his place in the pecking order of running backs have persisted.
That brought everyone to this week with Akers set to inactive. There is always a chance, a source cautions, that Akers snaps back in and he figures it out with McVay.
But absent that sort of dramatic turn, Akers could be headed elsewhere.
Gran Turismo series founder Kazunori Yamauchi has taken to Twitter to announce and tease the next update to Gran Turismo 7, which will arrive on consoles this coming week.
It’s coming a little sooner than anticipated, landing around three weeks after the previous content update on September 29. That’s the shortest interval between content updates yet, with most coming four or five weeks apart — and, with the exception of 1.15 and 1.17, on the last Thursday of each month.
Another unusual facet is that the update, which we’re temporarily dubbing 1.25, will bring four new cars instead of the three we’ve seen teased for every update thus far:
This set of cars looks relatively easy to identify, although with some qualifiers. Probably the most straightforward is the one in the bottom-left, which looks to be a 1973 Nissan Skyline GT-R.
Often dubbed “Kenmeri”, due to a promotional campaign featuring a couple named Ken and Mary, Nissan only produced 197 examples of this car — the last Nissan powered by the straight-six S20 engine — making it one of the rarest GT-Rs of all. That’s a shoo-in for the Legends Cars dealer.
Sitting to its right is a fourth-generation Mazda MX-5/Roadster. That might be a slightly controversial choice, as GT7 already has an ND model. However the existing car is the 1.5-liter model, so this could be a 2.0-liter variant. With the MX-5s legendary array of special editions, pinning it down precisely won’t be possible until the car is officially revealed.
In the top-right corner we find an updated model of the Nissan GT-R GT3. First competing in 2018, this car used the post-MY17 body for the first time, along with improvements over the 2012 car and its 2015 update.
It’s difficult to tell whether the car is the original 2018 version or the less common 2020 Evo, as physical differences were small. It may also be a specific team vehicle, such as one of the GT300 cars run in the Super GT series.
Finally, in the top right corner, there’s the Maserati Merak. This is a V6 derivative of the Maserati Bora, and indeed the two cars are almost identical up to the B-pillar. However the Merak features a reworked rear end, in part dictated by the different engines, notably including an open rear with “flying buttress” style C-pillars instead of a glass-covered compartment.
Although it’s difficult to tell from the silhouettes, it looks like the car is a regular Merak due to the lack of the hood-mounted grille of the higher performance SS (and the later, low-output 2000GT).
These teasers only ever include cars that are coming to the update, so other content and features are unknown at this time. However players might be expecting a new track this month, as there’s appeared to be a pattern in updates thus far.
Every other update to date has brought either a new circuit or new layouts at an existing one. May, July, and September’s updates did not include a circuit, while April, June, and August’s did. Additionally the April and August updates added variations to existing tracks — Spa-Francorchamps and Barcelona — with June bringing Watkins Glen as the only entirely new circuit. October therefore seems ripe for a new track.
As for other features and changes, the addition of the promised car-selling feature is one that the community is still anticipating. There will likely be other tweaks too, including a new batch of engine swaps and more Cafe Menu Books.
We don’t have a specific date for the update yet, but we’d expect it to be around Thursday, October 20.
