My first experiences with typing tutors were frustrating, and as a six-year-old, they were my nemesis. Sessions with the first program I tried often ended in me bashing my rather diminutive fists ...

Jazmin Jones knows what she did. “If you’re online, there’s this idea of trolling,” Jones, the director behind Seeking Mavis Beacon, said during a recent panel for her new documentary. “For this ...

This article comes from Den of Geek UK. When Sega first released The House of the Dead in arcades in 1996, and subsequently onto the much-loved Dreamcast console a year or two later, there were few ...

From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or ...

I'm not sure how it's possible to keep refining typing tutor software but we've reached Mavis Beacon Teaches Typing 15 so Mindscape obviously knows something I don't. The Mavis Beacon series is the ...

Regarding her search for the "real" Mavis Beacon, digital artist Jazmin Jones says: "We want to hear from you." Credit: JAZMIN JONES / OLIVIA MCKAYLA ROSS / JULES RETZLAFF / OWEN SMITH CLARK / IAN ...

Years ago, back in the days when there were "mainframe" computers but very few "home" computers, a typing teacher brought her brand of instruction to the home-computer monitor. It was late 1987, and ...