A VA middle school teacher has started a “Cursive Club,” for students who want to learn and improve their cursive writing skills. One student said she likes cursive because, “You don’t pick up the pencil, and your hand doesn’t really cramp up all the time.” Another student is pumped because, it’s, quote, “fraud proof, [because nothing can] actually sign a document the way you do.” (Which is cute. And maybe a little wishful thinking.)………………A PA woman flipped out after a trick-or-treater apparently went home with her diamond engagement ring on Halloween night. It was an accident, of course. She said she looked everywhere, and the only possibility was that it slipped off her hand as she was handing out candy. She posted about it on social media, and placed calls to the police and local schools. A family saw the story . . . rummaged through their kids’ candy . . .FOUND the ring and returned it…………..And finally…………..
24-year-old Kenyan entrepreneur Elly Savatia designed an app that translates speech into sign language using A.I.-powered 3D avatars . . . and he just won a major award for innovation. He says, “Think of it as Google Translate for sign language, that takes speech and text input and outputs photorealistic avatars signing.” He says that deaf people in Kenya often can’t get essential services because many people working in those services don’t know sign language, and so, the deaf community gets left behind. (Check it out, here.)