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Alberta’s minister of Education and Childcare recently issued an order banning some books from all school libraries in the ...
The event opened with a floral tribute to Padma Vibhushan Dr. K. Kasturirangan, architect of NEP 2020, recognizing his ...
Rymir Satterthwaite—a 30-year-old aspiring musician alleging to be the son of Jay-Z—said he dropped his federal lawsuit ...
Unusual words or punctuation may serve as ‘tells’ that something has been written by a chatbot. But even with that knowledge, ...
Opinion

Death of the dictionary

The Gutenberg revolution appears to be waning as the written word, the defining mark of civilisation—whether on Babylonian stelae or in racy detective novels—re ...
The poet John Dryden wrote, “Words are but pictures of our thoughts,” and a couple of new ones — pogonotomy and xylarium — recently roused some mental illustrations. A xylarium ...
The number one way for a Sub-S owner to pay lower taxes is to set the right salary they pay themselves. They need to find the ...
These regional slang words will leave your out-of-state friends scratching their heads Your slang is showing Language isn’t ...
A knowledge of past Wordle answers will have helped a little, because KRILL was the answer to game #1,385 back in April; that ...
Artificial intelligence (AI) is now in appliances and doorbells. Its flaws and biases are increasingly obvious. But so is a hidden strength: when wrong, it is consistently wrong. And that ...
Not something you see every day: Santa abseiling down a 100-metre-tall building in Berlin. He claims he was retrieving a sack of presents which had fallen from his sleigh. The mishap meant ...