USING A computer used to mean bashing away at a keyboard. Then it meant tapping on a touchscreen. Increasingly, it means simply speaking. Over 100m devices powered by Alexa, Amazon’s voice assistant, ...

Researchers at the University of East Anglia, in England, have developed a virtual guide that helps deaf computer users navigate the Web. The character, named Guido, translates text that appears on ...

A friend of mine is very hard of hearing — not quite deaf enough to fully belong to the deaf community, but sufficiently deaf that participating in a conversation is terribly hard work for her. This ...