As part of MakerWeek 2023, The New York Times’ annual hackathon, iOS and Android mobile engineers explored the ability to write in The New York Times Crosswords app on each respective platform. As an ...

An experimental computing system physically modeled after the biological brain "learned" to identify handwritten numbers with an overall accuracy of 93.4%. The key innovation in the experiment was a ...

Apple is actively working on a handwriting recognition system. This raises the distinct possibility that you might someday enter text by writing words on your iPhone or iPad screen, rather than ...

Remember Apple’s ill-fated Newton, the first personal digital assistant (PDA) to offer handwriting recognition? Cupertino’s original mobile device unfortunately didn’t do a particularly great job of ...

If you routinely take notes by hand on your mobile device, either with your finger or a stylus, you know how essential handwriting recognition apps can be for organization and legibility. These apps ...