Event program for the Unicode Technology Workshop 2025, Nov. 11-13, hosted at Microsoft at its Silicon Valley campus

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The concepts in the MingKwai typewriter underlie how Chinese, Japanese and Korean are typed today. The typewriter, patented in 1946, was found last year in an upstate New York basement.

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While many of us can seamlessly text and type in our native language, millions around the world lack that ability. Most living languages are not fully supported on digital platforms, raising a critica...

A drop in maritime traffic suggests that the worst is yet to come.

Hundreds of San Franciscans swarmed the Sydney Goldstein Theater Wednesday to think deeply about housing policy and deregulation — and to thirst after Ezra Klein.

Mark Davis Steps Down as Board Chair Mark Davis, co-founder of the Unicode Consortium and a pivotal figure in global digital communication, ...

Our policies encourage Americans to flock to areas particularly prone to climate-related disasters.

He used the constitution to shatter the constitution.

Nostalgia isn't what it used to be

Our California ballot-measure reporter heads to Switzerland on the 150th anniversary of its first federal referendum to see what a state mad about direct democracy can take away from the country that ...

It is often not so much the size as the complexity and incoherence of our government that makes it seem out of control. Because our constitutional system requires the cooperation of numerous players w...

An optimistic Thanksgiving post.

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