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 ...

Star Trek fans know that sometime in the 23rd century, a “universal translator” will automatically translate anything into a person’s native language. Good news, Trekkers: You won’t need to wait.

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 Brief The Web3 gaming platform HYTOPIA has launched a new feature that automatically translates game content and player ...

Google is testing a powerful new translation service that redubs video in a new language while also synchronizing the speaker's lips with words they never spoke. It could be very useful for a lot of ...

A look at any one of several well-known sci-fi classics on TV and film tends to show up speech as an area where we’re clearly about to make some big strides. We regularly see people speaking to ...

Tech expert Michelle Thatcher grew up surrounded by gadgets and sustained by Tex-Mex cuisine. Life in two major cities--first Chicago, then San Francisco--broadened her culinary horizons beyond meat ...

The following is an extract from Guy Harrison’s upcoming book AI, Blockchain and Quantum Computing due in October/November 2024. In Douglas Adams’ Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, various alien races ...

Posts from this author will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. is a senior reporter who has covered AI, robotics, and more for eight years at The Verge. Meta, the owner of ...

The time is now for that Universal Translation Device that came in so handy on Star Trek, DARPA, the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, has decided. And so it is ready to spend gobs of money ...