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 ...

Many Chinese keyboard apps, some from major handset manufacturers, can leak keystrokes to determined snoopers, leaving perhaps three quarters of a billion people at ...

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 ...

Your keyboard app on your smartphone might be lowkey eavesdropping on you. With every word you type on the screen, someone might be accessing your sensitive ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The mechanical keyboard maker Qwertykeys announced Wednesday that it has suspended all U.S. product shipments owing to new tariffs levied by the Trump administration. The Guangdong-based outfit cites ...

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The BlackBerry Classic, once a symbol of productivity and secure mobile communication, is getting a modern update. Chinese tech firm Zinwa Technologies is bringing back the iconic device with updated ...

It was the summer of 1959, and the United States needed a Cold War to win. In 1957, the Soviet bloc scored a major technological victory with Sputnik 1. The next year, China’s Communist leadership ...