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Encyclopedia Britannica is taking a page out of the Wikipedia playbook by allowing readers to make edits and contributions to the encyclopedia. And in another sign of the times, one of the most famous ...

Elon Musk introduces Grokipedia, an AI-powered encyclopedia aimed at challenging Wikipedia’s accuracy and bias.

Microsoft first launched Encarta in 1993, but the idea for the digitized encyclopedia software was initially conceived in 1985. Before the Internet allowed you to instantaneously look up every random ...

After 244 years, the Encyclopaedia Britannica will cease publishing its flagship encyclopedia and concentrate on its digital offerings. “We’d like to think our tradition is not to print, but to bring ...

Wharton sophomore Leonid Markel scratched his head and laughed at the Web site's mistake: Wikipedia.org had incorrectly listed President George Bush as the Republican Party's general chairman. But it ...