Not including your local language, how many languages can you speak? Maybe one, possibly two? The majority of us cannot speak any secondary languages, while others speak many languages. This variety ...

Get your news from a source that’s not owned and controlled by oligarchs. Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily. Star Trek’s universal translator is here, about 200 years early. Say hello to our new ...

Imagine being able to turn up in any city anywhere in the world and speak freely with the locals. It was fiction as Star Trek’s Universal Translator, in the hands of Lieutenant Uhura, chief ...

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Google is rolling out a new live translation feature in its Translate app that works with any pair of headphones, powered by ...

Tucked away in the cavalcade of nonsense and borderline sexism that was the Galaxy S4 launch, Samsung announced a pretty cool feature in its latest flagship phone: built-in translation for nine ...

The Lingmo Translate One2One is the latest “universal translators” that promises to translate, in near-real time, without needing WiFi or Bluetooth. We’ve seen a bunch of these products announced ...

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One of the coolest things from Hitchhiker’s Guide To The Galaxy was the Babel fish. If you never read the books, it’s a little creature (well, a fish, but whatever) that slips inside your ear and ...

In a way, it's shocking that machine translation--the computer-aided translation of human languages--hasn't been perfected yet. Philosophers and mathematicians have been proposing its possibility ...