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New Zealand Lays Off Its Official City Wizard After 20 Years of Loyal Service
Since 1998, UK-born Ian Brackenbury has been paid a solid $16,000 NZD per year to be the official wizard for the city of Christchurch in New Zealand. Now after slightly more than two decades on the city’s payroll, authorities are officially cutting ties with Brackenbury in an attempt to modernise the city.
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Are We Ever Going to Run Out of Digital Storage Space?
We live in a world of refuse — not simply the orange peels, Amazon boxes, and old TVs rotting away in landfills but also the texts, emails, and torrented movies looked at once and left to languish in the cloud. We appear to be verging on a crisis point with the first kind of trash,…