For much of human history, written communication was accomplished by hand. Every character had to be painstakingly carved into clay or inked onto parchment. Only in the mid-nineteenth century, with ...

If there’s one app you rely on more than any other on your phone, it’s probably the app that controls your on-screen keyboard. It’s a funny sort of realization, I realize — ’cause a keyboard isn’t ...

When I was a kid, I’d absorb hints and cheat codes for the latest Nintendo games through a sort of osmosis. On playgrounds or at friends’ houses, we’d trade these bits of wisdom as if they were arcane ...