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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 ...

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.

[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 ...

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 ...