How Arthur Wynne's puzzle sparked a century-long crossword craze
Arthur Wynne, the son of the editor of the local Liverpool Mercury, had emigrated to America aged 19 and by 1913 was editing ...
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'I was terrible at crosswords so I built an AI to do them'
"I was with 700 people who were really good at solving crossword puzzles and it annoyed me that I was so terrible, so I decided to write a computer program that would get even on my behalf," he ...