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A better keyboard than QWERTY
On The Vergecast: bye-bye QWERTY, AI at Microsoft, and two thumbs up on Netflix.
There are a million theories about why QWERTY was invented — the most common one holds that its creator wanted to make sure old typewriter mechanisms didn’t crash into each other as you whacked the keys — but almost everyone agrees, it’s not the best way. After that, we chat with The Verge ’s Tom Warren about the recent shake-ups at Microsoft and whether the company’s approach to AI is really working. 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.
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