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The Sydney Morning Herald
Technology

QWERTY keyboard still king despite other not-so brilliant ideas

Microsoft's new gesture-controlled keyboard is the latest in a long line of attempts to improve on the 100 year-old typing device, writes Mahesh Sharma.

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