Last year, language-learning app Drops created a companion app called Scripts that teaches the American Sign Language way of spelling the English alphabet in just 5 minutes per day -- a perfect ...

Snapchat last week launched a new filter to promote the American Sign Language alphabet. Devised by a team of deaf and hard-of-hearing Snapchat staffers who call themselves the "Deafengers," the ...

Snap isn't done teaching Snapchat users how to communicate using sign language. The social media service has introduced an ASL Alphabet Lens that, as the name implies, significantly expands the ...

With more closely spaced sensors and a lot of programming and testing, such a glove could be used to translate a more extensive American Sign Language vocabulary beyond the alphabet, said O’Connor.

Humans Who invented the alphabet? The untold story of a linguistic revolution One of civilisation’s most revolutionary inventions was long thought to be the brainchild of ancient Egyptian scribes.