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OpenAI’s sly mathematical breakthrough sends a chill through academia
OpenAI announced on Tuesday that one of its unreleased AI models had solved the Navier-Stokes problem, a fluid dynamics puzzle that is one of mathematics’ seven Millennium Prize problems and had defeated human researchers for nearly 90 years. Rather than being celebrated outright, the achievement has been overshadowed by accusations that OpenAI rushed to beat…
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Here’s how the new iPhone 18 Pro stacks up to the last-gen models
Apple will launch its iPhone 18 Pro and iPhone 18 Pro Max on 18 September, with pre-orders opening on 12 September, as the first devices in an unusually staggered 2026 release schedule. The base iPhone 18 has no confirmed launch date, while a foldable iPhone Duo is due in October priced at $1,999, meaning this…
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‘Little Princess’ prison officer who started work at ‘lion’s den’ prison aged 19 spared jail after fling with inmate
A prison officer who began working at Manchester’s high-security Strangeways prison aged just 19 has avoided jail despite having a three-month relationship with an inmate, after admitting misconduct in public office. Samantha Stowell, now 23, exchanged explicit messages, topless photos and videos with prisoner Conor Dobson, who also paid nearly £1,200 into her bank account,…
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Doctor Strange Officially Returns to Marvel in “Eye-Popping” New Release [Exclusive]
Marvel is expanding its horror-tinged Doctor Strange lore with “Doctor Strange: Endless Nightmare,” a new graphic novel from Abrams ComicArts that sends the Sorcerer Supreme into the depths of the human mind rather than another dimension. Collider has shared exclusive preview pages ahead of the book’s release, marking a notable return for the character in…
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Weirdo, scumbag and retard – the sickening expletive-laden rant millionaire beauty entrepreneur Linda Stinson launched at man simply waiting to collect a pizza – followed by this astonishing threat
Millionaire beauty entrepreneur Linda Stinson has apologised after footage emerged of her launching an expletive-laden tirade at a man waiting to collect a pizza in the lobby of the Redcastle Hotel in Co. Donegal. In the video, which went viral, Stinson, 42, from Co. Tyrone, threatened to kill the man and repeatedly called him a…
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“Prog was a dirty word. But so much music of the time was inspired by Yes, Genesis and King Crimson, and no one was talking about it. So I spoke up to buck that trend”: Elbow only made it by reconnecting with their progressive roots
Elbow frontman Guy Garvey has long embraced the “prog rock without the solos” tag for his band, explaining that he spoke up about the influence of progressive rock in the late 1990s precisely because the genre was unfashionable and rarely acknowledged at the time. He argues that much of the music being celebrated in the…
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The “radioactive” 1999 movie Bruce Willis called the “most bizarre” he ever made
The article revisits Bruce Willis’s 1999 flop “Breakfast of Champions”, a Kurt Vonnegut adaptation the actor produced, financed and starred in the same year “The Sixth Sense” made him roughly $100 million. Despite that blockbuster success, the smaller passion project bombed so badly it disappeared almost immediately, illustrating how one actor’s year could contain both…
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“By 12th grade, people gave us a certain amount of respect. But we were never rock stars, just the weird guys who did music.” The story of Weezer frontman Rivers Cuomo’s high school prog metal band Avant Garde
A photo of Weezer frontman Rivers Cuomo’s teenage progressive metal band was shown on The Tonight Show in August, prompting a look back at his pre-fame musical roots. Before forming Weezer, Cuomo played lead guitar in Avant Garde, a prog metal outfit he formed in the mid-1980s while a student at E.O. Smith High School…
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The ‘Witch’ from Black Sabbath’s Classic Album Cover Is Now a Musician
Louisa Livingstone, revealed in 2020 as the mysterious cloaked “witch woman” on the cover of Black Sabbath’s 1970 self-titled debut, has spoken about how she has embraced that legacy in her ongoing music career. Now living in Spain’s Murcia region and recording as Indreba, she released two Sabbath-referencing tracks earlier this year, “Witch Woman” and…
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Harry Potter Legend Officially Reveals “Strange” Reaction to HBO Series
Rupert Grint has spoken publicly for the first time about HBO’s forthcoming Harry Potter television series, admitting the reboot feels “strange” to him even though he fully supports it. Grint played Ron Weasley across all eight Harry Potter films from 2001 to 2011, and his comments matter because they mark a symbolic handover to the…