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Photo: Roland Heitink (Getty) A motivational guru from the Netherlands, who voiced a villainous Zaporozhets supermini in the Dutch-language version of Pixar’s Cars 2, is trying to legally change his birthday so he will face less discrimination, including from potential online romantic prospects. “When I’m on Tinder and it says I’m 69, I don’t get…

Apple finally gives an inch. Photo: Alex Cranz (Gizmodo) If you’ve ever listened to an Apple hater rant about why Macs suck, chances are you’ve heard those “You can’t repair or upgrade it yourself!” arguments. But with the new MacBook Air and Mac mini, Apple seems like it’s ready to toss Mac diehards a small,…

Illustration showing plumes on Saturnian moon Enceladus.Illustration: NASA/JPL-Caltech It looks like NASA will offer billionaire entrepreneur and physicist Yuri Milner help on the first private deep-space mission: a journey designed to detect life, if it exists, on Saturn’s moon Enceladus, according to documents acquired by New Scientist. New Scientist’s Mark Harris reports: Agreements signed by…

Photo: Getty On Thursday, Google CEO Sundar Pichai sent an email to all employees promising a number of changes to the company’s policies following last week’s massive walkout. Many of these changes addressed the demands made by the walkout organizers, including optional arbitration for sexual harassment and assault claims and an improved reporting process for…

Gonorrhea, caused by the bacteria Neisseria gonorrhoeae, above, is a summertime disease, according to a new paper. Image: Oregon State University (Flickr) Like clockwork, the influenza virus rears its ugly head every winter and makes our lives miserable. But the flu isn’t the only germ that likes a particular time of year, according to a…

Skulls and other human remains from P.W. Lund’s collection from Lagoa Santa, Brazil, kept in the Natural History Museum of Denmark.Image: Natural History Museum of Denmark It’s a huge day for archaeologists and anyone interested in the history of America’s first settlers. Findings from three new genetics studies—all released today—are presenting a fascinating, yet complex,…

Photo: Sam Rutherford (Gizmodo) The Nintendo Switch is getting an official YouTube app starting today. By adding support for YouTube, the number of streaming video services on the Switch now stands at three, following the Japan-only NicoNico app, which arrived shortly after the Switch’s release, and the Hulu app that launched on the Switch almost…

Screenshot: ABC News Hot Duck mania has gripped the internet. It’s sent birding twitter atwittering, and the New York City news media seems to hang on the duck’s every move. At this point, the duck may be a semi-permanent fixture of Central Park, and it’s good that so many people love it. But don’t you…

A Monster Solar Storm Could Cost the US $40 Billion Daily Our planet is due to be hit with a powerful solar storm, an event that happens about once every… Read more Read By Carrington event, the researchers are referring to a powerful geomagnetic solar storm that occurred in 1859. It remains one of the…

November 8, 1998 released the is Intel c favorite cartoon character of America — Homer Simpson. In it, strange as it may sound, Homer’s brain through a surgical operation to change the processor of Intel of Pentium II. Thus, 30 seconds of commercials, Simpson-senior transformed from a low-skilled worker of the atomic power station in…