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You move along the highway, when suddenly on a busy road runs. Around you moving cars, and you have a split second to make a decision: try to avoid the person and create the risk of an accident? To continue in the hope that he will have time? Slow? How would you rate the chances,…

In February 2014, astronomers from the Australian national University has discovered the oldest star in the Universe. It is located 6,000 light years from Earth in the constellation Hydra, and its age is 13.7 billion years. It turned out that the ancient there are stars near us in the milky Way galaxy. It is one…

Photo: Getty Images The conservative magazine the Washington Examiner has stood firmly behind President Trump every step of the way. But an early morning tweet from the publication went a little off message. Specifically, the tweet alleges that Trump is “going to hell.” The tweet, sent at 5:13am east coast time, didn’t mince words. Strangely,…

Illustration: Elena Scotti, Gizmodo (Photos: Getty Images) Giz AsksIn this Gizmodo series, we ask questions about everything from space to butts and get answers from a variety of experts.   The average American eats almost a ton of food a year. This breaks down to roughly 630 of milk, cheese and ice cream, 185 pounds of…

Photo: Alex Cranz (Gizmodo) Three years and four hardware revisions down the line, and it’s clear that the Apple Watch is here to stay—but are you squeezing all the functionality you can out of your Apple wearable? Here we present 19 tips and tricks for the Apple Watch, many of which will work across multiple…

Image: Gizmodo Between an Apple event, the midterms, and a global technology worker walkout—in addition to everything else happening in our mad world—there was a lot of news to keep up on this week. Gizmodo covered it all and published some stellar long reads to boot. Thousands of Google employees across the globe walked out…

In the spring of 2016 artificial intelligence system called AlphaGo defeated the world champion in the game of go in the match at the Four Seasons hotel in Seoul. The world reacted immediately. Most Americans and Europeans are not familiar with go, the ancient Asian game that involves placing black and white pebbles on a…

Shigeru Miyamoto, the creator of Super Mario, speaks on stage during an Apple launch event on September 7, 2016 in San Francisco, California.Photo: Stephen Lam (Getty) Mario Segale, the namesake behind the famous mustachioed protagonist of Nintendo’s iconic video game franchise, has died at age 84. Segale was born in Seattle in 1934 as the…

Photo: Richard Drew (AP) Amazon is inching ever closer to making its long-awaited decision on where to build its second North American headquarters, with the company entering “advanced discussions” to set up shop in Arlington County, Virginia’s Crystal City, with additional facilities in nearby Potomac Yard in Alexandria, the Washington Post reported on Saturday. However,…