On The Vergecast: one man’s quest to build a better keyboard, AI’s future at Microsoft, and all the thumbs on Netflix. On The Vergecast: one man’s quest to build a better keyboard, AI’s future at ...

Most modern keyboards are QWERTY. The QWERTY layout has no regularity in the arrangement of letters, and there was some backlash when this layout first came out. Designer Martin Vyčari explains the ...

Fact of the day: the QWERTY keyboard is bad. It does not provide the best way to type. We've known this for a while, and yet we're still using it; the QWERTY keyboard, developed in 1868, has somehow ...

Back in 1896, the QWERTY keyboard layout was created to increase typing speed, but for a reason that is no longer valid on today's computers. The first typing machines had keyboards with an ...

The touchscreen text input space could be heading for some serious disruption. If Apple drops its API guard a little more to allow developers to create system global keyboards that could open the ...

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To make an effective switch, one has to override muscle memory for using QWERTY layout for a long while. I started on my grandfather's "Underwood" typewriter when I was 7 and if I were to explore ...

Word-prediction Android keyboard maker SwiftKey, which closed a $17.5 million Series B led by Index Ventures last month and whose keyboard software runs on millions of mobile devices, has launched a ...

During my recent attempt to learn the Dvorak keyboard layout, my goal was to remain proficient in QWERTY, trying to store both layouts in my brain and be able to eventually use them both equally. At ...

French and English share the same 26-character alphabet, but additional accents, symbols, and punctuation make it challenging for Francophones to use keyboard layouts designed for English speakers.

iPhone users obviously spend tons of time typing on the screen, and some are probably looking for all the help they can get to type faster. Apple's built-in predictive text tool and the slide-to-type ...