To understand why modern computer keyboards and smartphone touchscreens utilize the QWERTY layout, one must travel back to ...

Computers are designed top-to-bottom for Latin-language users, but this one-size-fits-all thinking has created decades of difficulty for the rest of the world—particularly China. This story first ...

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 ...

Ever wondered why your keyboard starts with QWERTY instead of following alphabetical order? The answer goes back to the ...