The billionaire launched his A.I.-powered version, Grokipedia, on Monday. By Kate Conger Reporting from San Francisco Elon Musk on Monday unveiled his own version of Wikipedia, the crowdsourced online ...

Americans are awash in information. Most of us walk around with devices that give us instant access to all the knowledge in human history. But before you could Google it, and long before we met Alexa, ...

NORFOLK, Va. — Imagine this: you’re a teenager in the late 1980s and early 1990s, and you have a research project due soon. Long before Google or Wikipedia, there was only one thing to turn to…the ...

Why a banned African knowledge project terrified global powers — and why reviving it could redefine Africa’s future today.

Following are samples of the 50,000+ entries, photos, diagrams and charts in this tech reference, written by Alan Freedman, one of the first computer programmers in America (more about the author at ...

These days, many of us live online, where machine-generated content has begun to pollute the Internet with misinformation and noise. At a time when it’s hard to know what information to trust, I felt ...

Only 800 printed sets of the multi-volume Encyclopedia Britannica are stacked in the company’s Kentucky warehouse, the company says, and when the last one sells, there’ll be no more. It could be just ...

Yet with the disappearance of paper encyclopedias, a part of the Western intellectual tradition is disappearing as well. I am not speaking of the idea of impartial, objective, and meticulously ...

Ahead of hosting COP31 in 2026, Türkiye's Zero Waste Foundation has released the "Zero Waste Encyclopedia" to the public in ...

Posts from this author will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. is a reporter who covers the politics and power influencing the tech industry. Before joining The Verge in 2018, ...

The world received word yesterday that the publishers of Encyclopedia Britannica would stop producing hardbound, paper copies of their venerable reference. Actually, they stopped in 2010 but didn’t ...