Four billion phones ask one text file what time it is. One lecturer keeps it in his spare time. We counted the rest.

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BoM expects 30 to 50mm of rain to fall in Melbourne over coming days, with showers and storms also likely for Canberra and Sydney on Saturday

There’s been a late rise of influenza A, mostly due to the ‘super K’ strain.

For my fiftieth birthday I got a Sinn 903 St II chronograph (AU $5,600) instead of saving up for several years till I could afford a Breitling Navitimer B01 Chronograph 43 (AU $13,890). (Read my...

tl;dr After a great deal of research, for my 50th birthday I asked for and received a Sinn 903 St II wristwatch. This mechanical chronograph is a modern evolution of a 1970s-model Breitling Navitim...

It wasn’t always like this

Nearly a year after being wrongfully fired for my comments on race, gender and violence, an arbitrator has ordered my immediate reinstatement.

This week marks twenty years since Nadia and I moved to Melbourne to pursue our Masters degrees. Why Melbourne? After we got married in Pakistan in 2004, Nadia and I wanted to go overseas to study....

We scanned over 1 million social media posts for AI content. It turned up on every platform we checked, and 1 in 3 top LinkedIn posts flagged as AI-generated.

PM to declare Australia the first country worldwide to bring economic, social, security and environmental issues from AI under single office in major speech

When the AFL and Cricket Australia target India and the diaspora but only engage with convenient perspectives, trust begins to erode

The live-action ‘Moana’ remake proves realism is overrated.

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High in the Swiss Alps, on a concrete dam wall more than 8,000 feet above the sea, someone bolted thousands of solar panels to a place almost no one thought

“Xavier owns an apartment that he rents out at a loss of $1 billion/month. Seeing this success, he decides to make financial commitments to construct $850 bi...

The encroachment of AI into literature is catastrophic for writers, not because of how bad its outputs are or how unoriginal it makes us, but because of what it does to the practice of writing.

Matthew Butterick

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