"History" Blogs & Blog Posts

Tech companies are developing AI chatbots that let users talk to historical figures, but historians and AI researchers say they're pretty flawed.

Meet Sundar Pichai, the man leading Google and Alphabet as CEO who seeks to turn the search giant into an "AI-first" company.

Note the well dressed tourists in Bedlam The Rake’s Progress: Scene 8,  by William Hogarth, 1735  Sir John Soane’s Museum. Originally Bethlehem was founded in 1247 as the Priory of St Mary in Bishopsgate St, just outside t...

Brothers Hamid (left) and Xhemal Veseli,whose family saved Jews from the Holocausthonoured in Yad Vashem.saving Jewish Families of Kavajë.JGuideEuropeDuring the late C15th Spanish Inquisition, the Turkish Sultan in­vited Jews to live under Moslem r...

After cutting ties with Ye's antisemitic remarks, which included his threat to "go Defcon 3 on Jewish people", Adidas Chief Executive Bjorn Gulden continues to sell Ye's shoes and has even begun defending the Hitler-praising artist. "I think Kanye...

The Cutting Room Floor archives stuff cut from video games. If it was made but not included, it's there, from tantalizingly unfinished content to material censored for reasons obvious and not. A personal favorite: Secret of Mana. Secret of Mana...

In the 1950s, geologist Marie Tharp turned depth measurements into detailed maps of the ocean floor. It led to her discovery of the Mid-Atlantic rift.