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 ...

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 ...

As a decades-long fan of Star Trek, I grew up longing for my very own universal translator. At the 2023 Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, my wish finally came through in the form of a review ...

Matthew Zucca, a tech enthusiast and former consultant from Canada, joined Android Police in 2023. Leveraging his technical knowledge and previous consulting experience, Matthew got his first two ...

— -- Captain Kirk had the universal translator, Arthur Dent had the Babel fish — and the rest of us have smartphones. There's one major difference, though. Neither the universal translator nor ...

Anytime you talk about the subject of artificial intelligence, you’re talking about something that’s morally gray and potentially devastating. The case is the same with the Universal Translator tool ...

In 2023, AI researchers at Meta interviewed 34 native Spanish and Mandarin speakers who lived in the US but didn’t speak English. The goal was to find out what people who constantly rely on ...

A technology straight out of science fiction is coming to your video calls, provided you're willing to pay for it. Michelle is Lifehacker's Associate Tech Editor, and has been reviewing games, laptops ...

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 ...