Facebook announced today plans to acquire CTRL-Labs, a brain-computer interface startup developing hardware and software for decoding electrical activity from the brain to be used for computer input.

The keyboard is one of the two parts of a computer setup where flesh and blood meet plastic and metal. (The other being the mouse or trackpad.) Using a keyboard effectively means moving fingers with ...

I use plenty of app-specific shortcuts, but a few keyboard commands work almost everywhere on my PC. It doesn’t matter if I’m in a browser, a document editor, or File Explorer. The same keys handle ...