You have a few options: Toss your laptop through a nearby window ... a free utility that disables the touchpad when you're typing. Stop typing, and the touchpad instantly comes back to life.

But Randall Munroe of XKCD has run some numbers to find out if typing could, you know, power your laptop just through pressing its keys. One study reckons that it requires about 1.5 millijoules to ...

If you're working on your laptop in a crowded public space ... Someone using a smartphone to eavesdrop on what you're typing. That's according to data from a recent study published in ...

The Wall Street Journal's Daniel Akst writes that the keyboard identifies computer users by variations in their typing styles. When used with a password, the typing pattern technology could ...

Using nothing more than a smartphone resting next to a laptop, researchers at MIT and ... smartphone is capable enough to translate typing sounds into actual text by estimating where on a keyboard ...