If you’re simply wanting to practice your typing speed, then Dead Letter Dept. probably isn’t the game for you. Sure, this horrifying little curio describes itself as a typing game on Steam, and sure, ...

The field of brain-computer interfaces is moving away from mind-controlled computer cursors to restoring speech.

The LNP | LancasterOnline Opinion department publishes reader letters in both the newspaper and online on Wednesdays and Sundays. On the other five days of the week (Monday, Tuesday, Thursday, Friday, ...

To the people who find the new, smaller print in the newspaper hard to read: Do yourself a favor, go to a dollar store and get yourself a pair of “cheaters.’’ It works for me. Mary Sinclair East ...

Billions of text messages are sent around the world each day — most read and quickly forgotten. Senior computer science major Owen O’Brien is trying to make them more meaningful. O’Brien is the ...

This story is republished from STAT, the health and medicine news site that’s a partner to the Globe. Sign up for STAT’s free Morning Rounds newsletter here. A brain implant could help people type — ...

For people with near-total paralysis, the ability to communicate easily in real time is a challenge. For years, scientists have been working to remedy that by developing devices that can decode brain ...

Summary: For individuals with severe paralysis, the inability to speak or use their hands is a profound loss of autonomy. A new study has unveiled an investigational brain-computer interface (iBCI) ...

O. Rose Broderick reports on the health policies and technologies that govern people with disabilities’ lives. Before coming to STAT, she worked at WNYC’s Radiolab and Scientific American, and her ...

In an ever more digital world, pen and paper are increasingly getting replaced with screens and keyboards in classrooms. Now, a new study has investigated neural networks in the brain during hand- and ...

Threat actors are sending physical letters pretending to be from Trezor and Ledger, makers of cryptocurrency hardware wallets, to trick users into submitting recovery phrases in crypto theft attacks.

A letter to the editor argues the personal computer's evolution has stalled in favor of mobile devices. The author claims users have become passive consumers of social media and predatory advertising.