Typo on students’ homework proves how tired and overworked teachers are

Mistakes are bound to happen. When a mom innocently shared a photo of a small typo spotted on her 5-year-old’s homework ...
Android Police

The OnePlus Watch 3 has a typo that software updates can't fix

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The Verge

Typo’s next trick is turning the iPad into a Surface

Now that it’s out of court, Ryan Seacrest’s company wants to sell you a $189 iPad keyboard Now that it’s out of court, Ryan Seacrest’s company wants to sell you a $189 iPad keyboard is an editor ...
Fast Company

‘I Am Not a Typo’ campaign wants to get autocorrect to stop ‘fixing’ ethnic names

The byline on this article might say Talib Visram, but if it were up to your smartphone or computer, it would probably read “Talon Viceroy.” Like many others with names that aren’t from Anglo-Saxon ...
The New Yorker

The Exchange: The Great Typo Hunt

I recently exchanged e-mails with Deck about the operation. What mistakes did you encounter most frequently? We estimate that out of the top ten kinds of mistakes we found, the top five are all ...
New York Post

My parents made a typo on my birth certificate — I didn’t know for years

Say my name, say my name. A woman on TikTok claimed that her parents made a typo on her birth certificate, and she didn’t find out about the mistake until she was 15 years old. Gabby Mayor, who goes ...
Today

Oops! Asos printed a shopping bag with a typo and handled it in the perfect way

It's no secret that typos are embarrassing for just about everyone. But one online clothing retailer is owning its mistake with one hilarious message to its customers. Early Wednesday, Asos' official ...
Futurism

A Single Typo in Your Medical Records Can Make Your AI Doctor Go Dangerously Haywire

A single typo, formatting error, or slang word makes an AI more likely to tell a patient they’re not sick or don’t need to seek medical care. That’s what MIT researchers found in a June study ...
Business Insider

Nightmare on Wall Street: A Lyft typo projected profit to be 10x better than it really is.

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The Boston Globe

That was no typo: The median net worth of black Bostonians really is $8

The $8 detail in the Globe’s Spotlight series on race in Boston is not a typo. The median net worth for non-immigrant African-American households in the Greater Boston region is $8, according to “The ...
USA Today

Fact check: Typo led to false post about Michigan votes showing up 'magically' for Biden

Corrections & clarifications: This story has been updated to reflect the source of the voting data error, a clerical error in Shiawassee County, Michigan, that caused ...