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Microsoft Universal Translator: Star Trek Gets Real

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Anyone who’s used Google Translate on a mobile device on the go has realized how close we are to getting a universal translator. While Google Translate isn’t always accurate, it does the job well enough for you to be able to get the gist of another language that you don’t…

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March 13th, 2012 by: Range

Word Lens Automagically Translates and Displays Translations

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Otavio Good and John DeWeese worked for two and a half years to produce a program that, to paraphrase Arthur C. Clarke’s famous line, is indistinguishable from magic. Good and DeWeese’s app Word Lens is a essentially an OCR (optical character recognition) program. But unlike other OCR software, Word Lens…

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December 17th, 2010 by: Lambert Varias

Google Adds Latin Translation: Now You Can Swear in a Dead Language!

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While I did have to take Latin in 7th and 8th grade, most of it has either been stashed away deep in the recesses of my brain or forgotten. Probably the latter. However, I really like the fact that Google Translate can now translate into Latin, which is considered a…

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September 30th, 2010 by: Range

The Wii Controller has a Little Secret

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The editors over at Fortune magazine were kind enough to dissect the Nintendo Wii controller recently, revealing an interesting tidbit.

In addition to all of the well known features of the controller, the Wii-mote appears to have a special chip on board which is designed for voice processing applications. According…

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May 31st, 2007 by: Technabob

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