Look, it’s not as if Metallica in the year of the Lord 2025 is anything remotely like these lovable 20-year-old miscreants that terrorized the Bay Area and beyond. They’re all in their sixties now, kinder, gentler, and presumably insanely loaded rock gods who you could see being the quirky, out-of-place neighbor at some comically rich enclave like the Hamptons. Wikipedia …
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In the ’60s, America developed some cool, advanced engines, such as Pontiac’s overhead cam inline-6 or the jet-turbine in the Chrysler Turbine Car. Still, when push comes to shove, our first love is a good old naturally aspirated big block V8. Sure, we also enjoy forced induction systems and hybrids. No one is going to say …
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Microsoft is making OpenAI’s new free and open GPT model, gpt-oss-20b, available to Windows 11 users via Windows AI Foundry, the tech giant’s platform that lets users tap AI features, APIs, and popular open-source models on their computers. The company said in a blog post that gpt‑oss-20b is “tool-savvy and lightweight,” adding: “Optimized for agentic tasks like code execution and …
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Inaccessible Island, located in the Tristan Archipelago, is home to a rare and enigmatic species—the Inaccessible Island rail (Atlantisia rogersi). This unique bird is the world’s smallest extant flightless bird, with an adult size of just 5-6 inches and weighing only 34-49 grams. Recent research has uncovered the mystery of how this bird species arrived on the island, shedding light …
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