'Your wife wants to see you': letters seized by 18th-century privateers opened for first time | Social history
Correspondence taken from 130 Spanish ships reveal loves, hopes and fears of families separated by migration in the 1700s
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Correspondence taken from 130 Spanish ships reveal loves, hopes and fears of families separated by migration in the 1700s
Anyone on a long business trip away from home can expect regular complaints from their spouse if they fail to keep in touch.
Over a hundred missives written by lovers, wives and mothers in 1757 offer insights into wartime communication and women’s roles during that period
In a love letter from 1745 decorated with a doodle of a heart shot through with arrows, María Clara de Aialde wrote to her husband, Sebastian, a Spanish sa..
Artificial intelligence has made tremendous advances since its inception about seventy years ago. Self-driving cars, programs beating experts at complex games, and smart robots capable of assisting people that need care are just some among the successful examples of machine intelligence. This kind of progress might entice us to envision a society populated by autonomous robots capable of performing the same tasks humans do in the near future. This prospect seems limited only by the power and complexity of current computational devices, which is improving fast. However, there are several signif...