With an estimated 240 billion pennies in circulation, it’ll be a long time before we stop seeing them in the wild.

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Police in Sapporo have arrested a 43-year-old man on suspicion of threatening an employee at a food court with a gun-shaped lighter after the employee asked the man, who was smoking in a non-smoking ...

The SpellRing can track the shape of hands, movement, and palm orientation to enable word spelling in American Sign Language (ASL) with impressive accuracy.