Decades before its rediscovery in the Anglophone world, autocomplete was invented for putting Chinese characters into a computer. This is an excerpt from The Chinese Computer: A Global History of the ...

If you're looking for a new way to add a touch of novelty and flair to documents and other content you post on the Web, look no further than your computer's QWERTY keyboard. While the keyboard may ...

Meet the 5-Tiles Keyboard, (yet) another contender taking aim at disrupting Qwerty — and hoping to increase its chances by first targeting smaller wearable devices, such as smartwatches. The rational ...

Today's trivia question: Why are the letters on a computer keyboard arranged in such a strange order? The 21st century keyboard is based on 19th century technology. When the computer's ancestor, the ...

We're living in an age of multiple connected screens, where even our media-savvy televisions demand some occasional typing to search for a videogame, TV show or Netflix rental. Problem is, typing ...

Technology often contributes new words to the English language: television, hoover and iPod to name a few. But none have origins quite like the word QWERTY. As one of the world’s most ubiquitous ...

Tradition says that there are two primary kinds of typists: touch-typists who are familiar enough with a keyboard's layout to type without having to look at the keyboard while they type, and ...