How one person swapped his traditional keyboard for a completely custom one, plus AI at Microsoft and with Netflix ratings, on this episode of The Vergecast.
There are fewer things more ubiquitous in technology than QWERTY keyboards. If you type anywhere, you almost certainly type the QWERTY way. But why? It turns out that by almost any objective measure, the keyboards we use are decidedly unoptimized. Commonly used keys are too hard to reach; your fingers have to move side to side too much; it requires way too much movement overall.
And we try to suss out what’s coming for the Surface line and just how important those devices are to Microsoft going forward. Finally, we help a listener figure out how to rate a World War II documentary they didn’t really love — but they still want to see more of. We get some help from a Netflix exec and offer some tips on how to tell the algorithm what you do and don’t like.
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