How the death of cursive is complicating our elections
The legibility of cursive signatures on mail-in ballot envelopes could well become a disenfranchisement problem.
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Is Handwriting a Lost Art? What One College’s Kerfuffle Over Cursive Can Tell Us
Researchers say that handwriting is linked to academic success. Historians, like Morris, worry what is lost if people can’t ...
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U.S. sending powerful defense system to Israel, deepening its involvement in the conflict
The United States announced it is sending an advanced anti-missile system and a number of troops to Israel, deepening America's involvement in the spiraling conflict as the region readies for ...
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Alphabet's self-driving unit Waymo closes $5.6 billion funding round as robotaxi race heats up in the U.S.
Alphabet-owned driverless vehicle unit Waymo just closed a $5.6 billion funding round to expand its robotaxi service across the U.S. CFO Ruth Porat had announced in July that the Google parent ...
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fancy-regex
It uses a hybrid regex implementation designed to support a relatively rich set of features. In particular, it uses backtracking to implement "fancy" features such as look-around and backtracking, ...
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16 of the most romantic love letters ever written—and how to write a great one yourself
Hot tip: “Twas” just means “it was,” and “fortnight” means two weeks. Late U.S. President George H. W. Bush was surprisingly romantic in his letters to his wife, Barbara. In 1942, while stationed ...
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Stern U.S. letter prompts Israel to allow first aid into northern Gaza this month. Will it last?
Israeli officials were Wednesday scrutinizing an unusually stern letter from the U.S. government threatening to review military assistance to the government of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu if ...