cursor
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The other day, I found myself looking at a blinking cursor in a blank address bar in a new tab of my web browser.
From Salon ● Aug. 23, 2026
One showed a “B,” for “benign,” when the doctor’s cursor isolated it with her mouse.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 4, 2026
In the late 1990s, neurologist Philip Kennedy developed the first BCI to allow a severely paralyzed patient to move a computer cursor using their brain.
From MarketWatch ● Feb. 26, 2026
With the one finger he is able to move, he controls the on-screen cursor using a trackball.
From Barron's ● Jan. 29, 2026
The cursor flashes, waiting while I think what to say.
From "The Tenth Mistake of Hank Hooperman" by Gennifer Choldenko
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He can turn typing fingers and blinking cursors into the stuff of quietly engrossing drama.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 9, 2022
In December 2015, engineers in Ukrainian power stations saw cursors on their computer screens moving by themselves.
From BBC ● Jan. 27, 2022
The sensor arrays used in this research, smaller than a button, allow patients to move robotic arms or cursors on a screen just by thinking.
From New York Times ● Aug. 28, 2020
I also repeatedly encountered issues with it, including jumping cursors and unregistered clicks.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 21, 2016
Once upon a time, when glass ttys were common and addressable cursors were something special, what is now called a dumb terminal could pass for a smart terminal.
From The Jargon File, Version 4.2.2, 20 Aug 2000 by Guy L. Steele
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