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 ...
One year ago, American couple Jennifer and Nelson Felix discovered a peculiar typewriter in boxes cleared out from Jennifer’s late father’s Arizona basement. The characters on its keys appeared to be ...
From Wubi to Zhineng ABC, here are the different ways Chinese people have typed their language over the years. This story first appeared in China Report, MIT Technology Review’s newsletter about ...
An encryption loophole in these apps leaves nearly a billion people vulnerable to eavesdropping. Almost all keyboard apps used by Chinese people around the world share a security loophole that makes ...