Call it a sign of the times. Computer scientists in the Middle East recently patented an artificial intelligence program that can successfully mimic human handwriting at an indistinguishable level.

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Those waxing nostalgic for Apple's Newton can take comfort in a new unofficial third-party application for the iPhone that can recognize handwriting (fingerwriting?) and turn it into typed text.

A team of inventors have received a patent from the US for an AI tool that can copy people's handwriting. It's able to produce text based off just a few paragraphs of a person's original handwriting.

While there are plenty of styles to choose from, the best handwriting fonts have the ability to transform sterile copy into text that has a uniquely human edge. These diverse fonts capture a sense of ...