Jill Lepore

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  • May 22, 2026
    In 1962, a programmer at Librascope, a California-based defense contractor, announced that “a computer can be programmed to write meaningful and relevant sentences in proper...
  • May 13, 2026
    Freddy the Detective solved his first mystery in 1927, a passing-of-the-deerstalker year in which Sir Arthur Conan Doyle published his last Sherlock Holmes story and Agatha Christie...
  • Mar 27, 2026
    “Unless you can be very sure that it’s not going to want to kill you when it’s grown up, you should worry,” Geoffrey Hinton, the seventy-eight-year-old Nobel...