Microsoft actually built a multi-touch mouse before Apple; at CES last year Stephen Bathiche, the head of the Microsoft Applied Sciences team, told TechRadar how his team designed a capacitive ...

During this 1968 demonstration, Douglas Engelbart explained how a cursor point would track the movements of a mouse made by the computer's operator. SRI ...

How the mouse made its way into our homes The computer mouse has undergone multiple iterations since its first demo 50 years ago ...

On this day, 35 years ago, Xerox released the first commercially available computer intended for use with a mouse. The Star, as it was called, wasn’t a particularly big success, but Xerox’s ...

For an innovation meant to make it easier to use a computer, its name was surprisingly unwieldy: “X-Y position indicator for a display system.” The word “mouse” was much catchier, and that ...

Your computer's mouse is probably pretty gross. Wiping it off every now and then is great, but if you want to deep clean your mouse, we'll show you how.

If it had been up to Douglas Engelbart, his invention would have been called the "X-Y position indicator for a display system.” That's how the man who designed the mouse described what he'd made ...