Hugh Kellett's new book Glitzch features famous figures from history such as Floral Nightgown (Florence Nightingale) and Horny Nylons (Horatio Nelson) Credit: Photo: GEOFF ROBINSON An author has ...

Typing is one of the most common things we do on our mobile phones. A recent survey suggests that millenials spend 48 minutes each day texting, while boomers spend 30 minutes. Since the advent of ...

A closeup picture of a phone keyboard. The acronym T9 stands for Text on 9 keys. T9 "predictive texting" is a tool used primarily on non-smartphones (those with just a nine-key keyboard similar to a ...

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Harry Potter and the Portrait of What Looked Like a Large Pile of Ash was written by a predictive text bot, and it’s magnificently weird. There are concerns in some industries that increasing ...

At a packed audience at a London theatre last year, Seamus Heaney announced that he was a big fan of predictive text. The Nobel laureate who has, for nearly 50 years, been "digging" (according to his ...

It's a modern marvel of the mobile phone industry. Predictive text has, no doubt, made it quicker and easier to communicate with those around us. However, the very tool designed to help bring us ...

A mother's text from Lidl causes confusion for the family Credit: Photo: Jason Alden/Bloomberg News What do you want from life? Love? Wealth? A quiet mind? This deep philosophical issue has exercised ...