We all know what a typewriter looks like, and how this has been translated directly into the modern day computer keyboard, or ...

The Chinese Computer: A Global History of the Information Age. By Thomas Mullaney. MIT Press; 376 pages; $34.95 and £32 The National Chinese Characters Typing Competition is rarely cause for ...

Nearly all keyboard apps that allow users to enter Chinese characters into their Android, iOS, or other mobile devices are vulnerable to attacks that allow an adversary to capture the entirety of ...

In brief: Anyone who types in Chinese using cloud-based apps from Baidu, Honor, iFlytek, Oppo, Samsung, Tencent, Vivo, and Xiaomi should update their software immediately. The Huawei service appears ...

In 2014, Stanford historian Thomas Mullaney placed a call he had been waiting to make for a decade. The woman who picked up, Lois Lew, was a Chinese-American who had spent most of her life running a ...

Plus: the successor to GPT-4 is on the horizon This is today's edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what's going on in the world of technology. How the quest ...