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Vulgar chants about Vladimir Putin before he arrived for a regional summit in Belarus did not augur well for the Russian president's hopes of bringing the leaders of former Soviet republics closer together. Matters got even worse when bickering broke out at the start of the meeting, revealing fault lines over the Ukraine crisis and deepening doubts about the future of the loose grouping known as the Commonwealth of Independent States. Jibes between Putin and the leader of Moldova, and barbs aimed at the absent Ukrainian leader, raised new questions about his ability to woo countries to the Eurasian Economic...

For nearly two decades, Microsoft has sold ergonomic keyboards, but you likely haven’t used one for very long, if at all. The reason? It isn’t because typing on a flat surface is more comfortable or healthier for you. It’s largely because ergo-hardware has been bulky, dated, and just plain uncool, says Suneel Goud, one of the engineers behind the first significant reboot in the history of Microsoft’s ergonomic accessory line. “That natural design that we came up with in 1994, it has probably been one of the most studied, one of the most iconic designs in the ergonomic keyboard space,”...