Lance Whitney is a freelance technology writer and trainer and a former IT professional. He's written for Time, CNET, PCMag, and several other publications. He's the author of two tech books--one on ...

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 ...

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 ...

During an Inside the Lab: Building for the metaverse with AI livestream event on Wednesday, Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg didn't just expound on his company's unblinking vision for the future, dubbed the ...

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 ...

WHEN Google announced that its Google Translate app would be getting an update, the technology press went into a bit of a swoon. First with the story was the New York Times: The idea of a universal ...

The social network has rolled out a new tool that can translate comments found on public pages into your native language. Lance Whitney is a freelance technology writer and trainer and a former IT ...

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 ...

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 ...

On Wednesday, Google unveiled the Pixel Buds, a $159 pair of wireless earbuds designed to work with its new Pixel 2 smartphones. The Pixel Buds will release in November, between the launches for the ...