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It’s strange to imagine where we’d be if we didn’t have Larry Tesler’s cut, copy, and paste commands. They’re so rudimentary to modern computer functions, and yet there was a time they didn’t exist.

After the death of Larry Tesler this week, New Atlas takes a brief look back at the invention of those now-ubiquitous computer commands: cut, copy and paste. “When I make a copy-paste error, unlike ...

Experts at Meta's Reality Labs say they've created a wrist-worn device that can translate electrical signals generated by wrist muscle movements into computer commands. Reporting their findings in the ...

[Photo: Microsoft Research] Most gesture-based control systems we use today rely on either motion-capture cameras–like the Kinect–or a touchscreen device. But researchers from Microsoft Research and ...

Just like all the rest of Minecraft, using commands has gotten simpler and more accessible with each successive version. Instead of having to pore over lists of ID's for your enchanting commands ...

Top photo: Tim Evans, 62, during testing; the BCI is picking up his brain signals to turn off the light using a communication board. Photo courtesy of the Crone Lab. Bottom left: Evans sitting in the ...

Staring at a computer screen, Mark focuses deeply, his arms resting by his side. His right index finger trembles ever so slightly on top of a pillow, and then an alert rings out from the screen in ...