Khabib Nurmagomedov’s autobiography to be published in six languages

Khabib Nurmagomedov’s autobiography book is expected to be translated into six languages to make it available for UFC champion’s foreign fans. The autobiography titled ‘#KhabibTime’ details the UFC star’s rise to international prominence – from his first steps in wrestling to deafening success in the cage against the biggest names of the MMA world. READ MORE: McGregor […]

Developers love trendy new languages, but earn more with functional programming

(credit: Stack Exchange) Developer Q&A site Stack Overflow performs an annual survey to find out more about the programmer community, and the latest set of results has just been published. JavaScript remains the most widely used programming language among professional developers, making that six years at the top for the lingua franca of Web development. […]

Google’s Gboard app gets more languages and built-in stickers

After catching up with iOS, Google’s keyboard app for Android is now racing ahead, courtesy of an update that packs 40 additional languages (including Japanese), and built-in sticker packs. Although Google already has a keyboard for non-Latin script languages, it’s not forcing you to adopt Gboard, as noted by 9to5Google. Instead, you’ll need to manually […]

Encrypted email service ProtonMail expands beyond English into 7 new languages

Encrypted email service ProtonMail has come a long way since its global launch back in March 2016, introducing two-factor authentication (2FA), Tor support, and even rolling out a standalone VPN product. But a major gap in ProtonMail’s “global” credentials so far has been its lack of language support. The service offered just an English interface at […]

Samsung’s Family Hub smart fridges are courting Europe with support for 8 new languages

Samsung has announced that its smart refrigerators are going truly multilingual, with support for a host of European languages coming this year. If that announcement jarred you slightly, here’s a quick recap of how we got here. While internet-enabled fridges aren’t a totally new phenomenon, Samsung has been going all-in to convince everyone that smart […]

Google adds voice recognition for Indian and African languages

For quick reminders and messages, it is a lot faster and more convenient to simply talk to your phone, rather than pull up an app and type on a keyboard. That’s part of the reason Google has been updating Gboard for Android with voice support for more international languages, working with native speakers to train […]

Google boosts Cloud Speech API with word-level timestamps and support for 30 new languages

Google has announced a number of notable updates to its Cloud Speech API, a product first unveiled as part of the company’s Cloud Machine Learning platform last year. The Cloud Speech API, in a nutshell, allows third-party developers and companies to integrate Google’s speech recognition smarts into their own products. For example, contact centers may […]

Why These Mexican Writers Are Ditching Spanish for Ancient Languages

It was standing room only in the Los Angeles Central Library last July. The crowd of some 300 ranged from multigenerational Mexican immigrant families to young Californians of indigenous Mexican extraction to academics, some of whom had traveled across the country for the event. The participants enjoyed readings of poetry and short stories and a […]