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Toyota has been working on a new research and development center since April 2018 in Shimoyama where it opened a 3.3-mile version of the Nürburgring track a year later. Work on the R&D site has now been finalized, and there’s another connection to the famous German circuit. This time, it’s inside the building where future models are being developed. The place where Toyota GR and Lexus models are born has an interior design that simulates the look and feel of the Nordschleife’s pit lane. This is where teams from planning, design, engineering, and development will meet with people responsible for prototypes and…

Nissan will continue racing in the Formula E Championship through 2030, the automaker announced last week. Nissan has competed in the electric racing series since Season 5, which ran in 2018 and 2019, and under its latest commitment will race in the series at least until the end of Season 16, which will run in 2029 and 2030. This will be the longest that Nissan has competed in an FIA-sanctioned racing series. The commitment makes Nissan the first team to sign on to race with the next-generation Gen4 race car that will be introduced in Season 13, which will run…

Photo: Kevin Winter/Getty Images In an era where Temu has enough cheddar to buy multiple Super Bowl ads, Cher is teaching the next generation at the iHeartRadio Music Awards in Los Angeles that it is very cool to keep things for long periods of time— well, as long as they’re not falling apart after a few uses. Introduced by her pal Meryl Streep and serenaded by Jennifer Hudson (singing “​​If I Could Turn Back Time”), Cher accepted the Icon Award the only way she knows how: by belting out “Believe” in a familiar outfit. After the song, she proudly explained to…

Climate change may be making it harder to know exactly what time it is. The rapid melting of the ice sheets atop Greenland and Antarctica, as measured by satellite-based gravitational measurements, is shifting more mass toward Earth’s waistline. And that extra bulge is slowing the planet’s rotation, geophysicist Duncan Agnew reports online March 27 in Nature. That climate change–driven mass shift is throwing a new wrench into international timekeeping standards. The internationally agreed-upon coordinated universal time, or UTC, is set by atomic clocks, but that time is regularly adjusted to match Earth’s actual spin. Earth’s rotation isn’t always smooth sailing…

With little notice, the United States may be crossing a historic milestone in family structure, one that may shape our health, wealth and happiness. Historically, most American adults were married — more than two-thirds as recently as 1970. But the married share has crept downward, and today only about half of adults are married. Depending on the data source, we may already have entered an epoch in which a majority is not married. “Our civilization is in the midst of an epochal shift, a shift away from marriage,” Brad Wilcox, a sociologist who directs the National Marriage Project at the…

At the 2024 iHeartRadio Music Awards at Los Angeles’ Dolby Theatre on Monday (April 1) night, bona fide pop legend Cher received the Icon Award. When the Oscar-winning actor and Grammy-winning singer took the stage, she had some words for the haters. “There are people who say, ‘Doesn’t that b-tch have more than one pair of pants?’” she said, laughing, while sporting a pair of Chrome Hearts pants. “I’ve had these pants for 40 years. I thought we should come here and accept this award together.” Speaking to her longevity, Cher said she felt “lucky to have people that have…

A surprise arrest after a 13-year investigation shocked the true crime community — and relieved New Yorkers. He murdered at least four people, likely 10, and possibly more. His victims, which included an unidentified toddler and her mother, were left discarded like trash along a short stretch of beach highway. Over the last decade, his specter became a pop culture boogeyman. And now, authorities may have finally caught LISK: the Long Island serial killer. On July 14, police on Long Island swarmed tiny Massapequa Park, a small village located about 20 minutes from Jones Beach Island, the long, narrow strip…

A Pokemon fan creates a convergent redesign of the Magnet Pokemon called Magnemite and Magneton and shares their work with other trainers. A Pokemon fan artist created convergent forms of Magnemite and Magneton, with completely different names and inspirations for the new designs to match. The Pokemon fan artist shared their efforts with other trainers, who commented on both the convergent Pokemon designs and the names the artist chose for the project. Known as the Magnet Pokemon, Magnemite and Magneton first appeared in Pokemon Red and Blue. Though they were among the first Electric-type Pokemon in the series, both Magnemite…

A Pakistani man who allegedly filmed his brother strangling their sister to death has been arrested as part of the latest “honor” killing that has outraged the country, police said Sunday.Maria Bibi, 22, was killed overnight on March 17, allegedly by her brother Muhammad Faisal and in the presence of her father Abdul Sattar, near Toba Tek Singh town in the central-eastern province of Punjab.A video filmed by the woman’s other brother Shehbaz, and which has gone viral, appears to show Faisal strangling the girl on a bed in the family home while their father sat nearby. At one point,…

Ramy Youssef made his ‘Saturday Night Live’ hosting debut recently and had fans buzzing. Learn more about the comedian, here. Image Credit: Getty Images Ramy Youssef made headlines after hosting Saturday Night Live on March 30. The 33-year-old comedian has been in show business since he starred in his first gig on Nick at Nite’s See Dad Run. Most recently, he starred in the award-winning film Poor Things, which was nominated for Best Motion Picture at the 2024 Academy Awards. Learn more about Ramy below! Ramy Youssef Is a Comedian Rodin Eckenroth/Getty Images After getting into acting on Nick at…