In November 1970 a patent was granted for a device dubbed an “X-Y position indicator for a display system”.

The computer mouse was one of those ideas that changed the world. It was such an intuitive and easy way to instruct a computer, that widespread global adoption followed and the impact of the humble ...

William "Bill" English, the engineer who helped create the first computer mouse, died July 26 in California. He was 91. With the mouse, English — alongside his partner, Douglas Engelbart, who died in ...

One of the first computer mouses and a coding keyset created by computer pioneer Douglas Engelbart have sold for US$178,936 at auction. Like the two previous such Engelbart mouses that have gone to ...

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The ways we talk to the machines in our lives keep evolving. I am typing on a keyboard that is pretty similar to the first computer keyboards from the 1970s. The layout of keys is based on much older ...

New York (CNN) — Elon Musk says Neuralink’s first human trial participant can control a computer mouse with their brain, nearly one month after having the company’s chip implanted. But details remain ...

What just happened? Just a few weeks after Elon Musk announced that the first human subject had received an implant from his controversial Neuralink company and was recovering well, he says the ...

Apple Co-Founder Steve Wozniak calls Engelbart a god and visionary. July 3, 2013 — -- Douglas C. Engelbart, one of the inventors of the computer mouse and a computer visionary, has died at the ...