mouse

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Before the iPhone, Apple shook up home computing with the 1984 Macintosh, whose icon-based interface and mouse made computing accessible beyond specialists -- and sparked a legendary rivalry between Jobs and Microsoft's Bill Gates.

From Barron's • Mar. 29, 2026

Scientists successfully unfroze part of a mouse brain—and it still worked.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 27, 2026

He clicked the mouse on a window displaying several lines of Smalltalk code, made a minor edit, and returned to the text.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 24, 2026

What investors today take for granted — buying or selling a basket of thousands of stocks with a single click of a mouse while incurring no transaction cost — was impossible.

From MarketWatch • Mar. 23, 2026

The Walker raised his head, dazed from stroking his mouse.

From "Wolf Brother" by Michelle Paver