Just like when Germany wasn’t too pleased with Tesla’s naming choice for its semi-autonomous feature (confusingly called Autopilot), the country’s automotive industry group is calling out the American electric vehicle company for misleading pricing online for the Model 3 sedan.

This week Reuters reported that the Wettbewerbszentrale nonprofit association that oversees fairness in the auto industry asked Tesla to include the full price of the car and remove the price based on gas savings and tax incentives and rebates. 

Tesla appears to have already reversed course ahead of the March 20 deadline for the change. Accessing the Model 3 website through a VPN set to a location in Germany Friday afternoon, the full price before savings is listed, with no mention of estimated savings on the bottom bar or elsewhere.

In the U.S., the “savings” price is featured more prominently, with the cost “before savings” listed at the bottom, reflecting the true price. So the $35,000 Model 3 looks at first glance like a $24,450 car — but there’s an asterisk. Germany wasn’t having it. The country considers the labeling non-transparent, calling the listings “marketing exaggerations.”

We reached out to Tesla about the price listings, but haven’t heard back yet.

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Speaking of Autopilot, Tesla recently switched up the language on its website to make it a bit more vague and less likely to be accused of misleading or overpromising users on the system’s self-driving capabilities. Most noticeably, the Tesla Autopilot website’s main header now says “Future of Driving” instead of “Full Self-Driving Hardware on All Cars,” which was on the site as recently as Feb. 19, based on an Internet Archive search. Now, if only it could rename Autopilot …

Just days before Flickr mass deletes photos across its platform, the company has decided to hit its users with some good news.

In a blog post on Friday, Flickr announced that it will allow free accounts to host and upload more than the 1,000 photo limit if the photos are licensed freely under Creative Commons. Users can change their current photos to Creative Commons licensing, as well as upload future similarly licensed photos, to their free Flickr accounts.

After Flickr, one of the largest photo-sharing website, was acquired by Smugmug last year, the company announced sweeping changes to its account policies. Free accounts would be limited to no more than 1,000 image uploads. Photos exceeding that limit would be deleted from users’ free accounts. If a Flickr user wanted to keep those photos or upload more than 1000, they would need to upgrade to a paid “pro” level account.

The photo-sharing platform originally planned to begin deleting photos on February 5 but have since pushed it back to March 12.

Flickr had also announced at the time that publicly licensed photos uploaded prior to Nov 1, 2018 would be exempt from deletion. 

“We wanted to make sure we didn’t disrupt the hundreds of millions of stories across the global internet that link to freely licensed Flickr images,” said Flickr’s announcement. “We know the cost of storing and serving these images is vastly outweighed by the value they represent to the world.”

Now, the company has extended its policy to host public Creative Commons licensed works regardless of when they were uploaded.

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Along with this announcement, Flickr has disabled its bulk license change tools so users couldn’t just change the licensing on their photos en masse. Flickr says it wants its users to understand “the significant implications of the various free licenses we support” when choosing to update the license on their photos.

Flickr has also “in memoriam” accounts for users that pass away. When a member of the Flickr community dies, users can nominate that account to be locked and preserved. The account will be designated an “in memoriam” status and logins to the account will be blocked. The photo-sharing service will keep all the uploads on the account, even when their pro subscription lapses and their free account exceeds 1,000 photos. 

After the original 1,000 limit policy change disappointed so many in the Flickr community, It’s good to see some positive news that centers its users. But, reminder: the photo-sharing service still plans to delete all non-Creative Commons licensed photos on free accounts exceeding the photo limit on March 12.

When Barbie told 19-year-old Yara Shahidi that the company wanted to gift her a one-of-a-kind “shero” doll made in her likeness, the Grown-ish actress was stunned. 

“It’s really surreal just because this was never within my realm of possibility. I never thought, ‘Oh yeah, one day I’ll have my own doll’ or anything like that,” says Shahidi, who went from starring on the hit series Black-ish to its spin-off Grown-ish. 

Shahidi is one of 20 role models from 18 countries being honored by Barbie as it marks both its 60th anniversary and International Women’s Day. The sheroes, as Barbie calls them, include German track cyclist Kristina Vogel, French director Lisa Azuelos, and Japanese tennis player Naomi Osaka.

“It really amplifies and reaffirms this idea that we can excel in whatever field,” says Shahidi. 

Barbie is touting this year’s group of sheroes as the “most diverse lineup” honored by the brand since the program launched in 2015. While customers can’t buy the role model dolls, they can choose from the Barbie Career 60th Anniversary doll collection, which includes an astronaut, firefighter, and pilot. 

For every Barbie sold through March 11 in certain U.S. states, Mattel will donate $1 (up to $250,000) to the Barbie Dream Gap Project Fund, a new initiative that supports organizations “leveling the playing field for girls.”  

Shahidi believes it’s important to see dolls that represent a wide range of female professionals because it shows kids what girls and women can achieve.

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She says her parents intentionally introduced her to dolls, books, and TV characters that both reaffirmed her black female experience and demonstrated that anything is possible. Eventually, Shahidi learned other children didn’t get the opportunity to see role models that looked like them.

“When I realized that not everyone got the same privileges of seeing themselves reflected in the most tangible and the most metaphoric senses, it became really important to me to see what I could do in sharing the resources I’ve had, that have made such an impact,” says Shahidi. 

Barbie and Shahidi worked together to design the doll, which included finding the right hair texture and skin tone.

“It was a really cool process of figuring out what makes this Barbie look like me,” says Shahidi. “What do I feel makes Yara Yara?” 

One of the most recognizable features of Shahidi’s Barbie is its colorful “Vote” t-shirt. Proceeds from sales of the life-size, limited-edition tee go to Eighteen x 18, her voting initiative. Shahidi wears the shirt so often she jokes she’s become one with it. 

On Friday morning, Shahidi helped Barbie turn the lights on the Empire State building in New York pink as a way to mark International Women’s Day. The brand also debuted new Facebook and Snapchat filters that let a user choose from several firsts, like being the first woman to run a four-minute mile, the first female lunar explorer, or the first female United Nations secretary general. 

To girls who are dreaming about being the first in something, Shahidi says, “We’re particularly lucky to be born now because there’s generations of people who are waiting on us to accomplish all the amazing things we want to do.”