Millions of people type on a keyboard every day without ever wondering why the letters sit where they do. The QWERTY ...

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 ...

Dvorak is easier on your hands than QWERTY. So I tried it on my devices and was surprised at the result.

I’m typing this answer on a QWERTY keyboard. It’s called that because those are the top letters, reading left to right. I asked my friend Erin Hvizdak about it. She’s a librarian at Washington State ...