It is well known that pictographic languages that use Hanzi, like Mandarin, are difficult to work with for computer input and ...

Conventional wisdom holds that the best way to learn a new language is immersion: just throw someone into a situation where they have no choice, and they’ll learn by context. Militaries use immersion ...

Developer Tania Finlayson has come a long way from her childhood, when doctors told her parents that their daughter — who'd been born with cerebral palsy — probably wouldn't amount to much. That maybe ...

It's not exactly beating something into someone's head. More like tapping it into the side. Researchers at the Georgia Institute of Technology have developed a system that teaches people Morse code ...

Developer Tania Finlayson has come a long way from her childhood, when doctors told her parents that their daughter — who’d been born with cerebral palsy — probably wouldn’t amount to much. That maybe ...

In the latest test of the tiny workings of bumblebee minds, scientists have taught the fuzzy insects to tell the difference ...

Morse code is a method of encoding words that was invented in the 19th Century as a way of transmitting messages over long distances. This was before the era of telephones and way before smartphones!

It may be the ultimate SOS--Morse Code is in distress. The language of dots and dashes has been the lingua franca of amateur radio, a vibrant community of technology buffs and hobbyists who have ...

My last post described the Morse code being laid down on Mars by the Curiosity Rover’s tire treads. I got a couple of messages on the theme of “Morse code? People still use that?” Many commercial and ...

During Google I/O today, the company announced that Gboard would soon support Morse code, a move inspired by developer Tania Finlayson who communicates through head movements that are translated into ...

Morse Code Day, observed on April 27, honors Samuel Morse, the inventor of Morse code, and celebrates this groundbreaking method of communication. Before modern technology, messages took weeks to ...