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FOR more than three hours on a fine, calm August morning in 1955, the eyes of Sydney’s suburbia were fixed skyward, anxiously watching the flight of a pilotless Auster aeroplane

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Virginia Hislop receives a master’s degree in the 2024 diploma ceremony at the age of 105.

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Internet Archive fans beg publishers to stop emptying the open library.

The Ontario Science Centre is shutting down immediately as an engineering report commissioned by the province shows the roof could collapse — but while it could be fixed at a cost, the province is choosing to shutter the location indefinitely.

Governor Hochul signed nation-leading legislation to combat addictive social media feeds and protect kids online. 

SVG, short for <em>“scalable
vector graphics”</em> is a format for, well, scalable vector graphics.
In this article I summarize my opinion of the format, what its problems
are and suggest what could be done to improve things.

What am I even paying for?