Latest World News. Find every day short and brief information composed of titles and subtitles and continue reading if interested.
Published time: 29 Jul, 2017 09:56 Russian musicians left the Salzburg Festival audience in awe, becoming the third non-Austrian musicians ever to open the event. RT spoke with world-famous conductor Teodor Currentzis, who led the orchestra. Following the concert, the audience gave the musicians a 15-minute standing ovation. Over the two weeks that the Perm […]
Supplied An Australian startup revealed its flagship product, an earpiece that can interpret 8 different languages in real-time, at a United Nations event in Switzerland on Friday. Lingmo International, a startup based in West Gosford north of Sydney, launched its TranslateOne2One earpiece at the UN’s Artificial Intelligence for Good Summit in Geneva, revealing that IBM […]
On August 17, 2013, musician Simon Doré tried to cross the Strait of Gibraltar. Halfway across, the inflatable boat began to fill with water. There weren’t enough life vests for everyone, and within a few hours Doré, along with another refugee, drowned. Today a part of Doré continues to live on in Tangier in the […]
We’re getting very close to a Babel fish era, where you can just stick something in your ear and converse fluently with any human on Earth. But in the meantime, we have our smartphones. Travis the Translator is a new project on Indiegogo that strips out most of the smartphone fluff to create a simple, […]
Microsoft today announced Microsoft Teams — with Android, iOS, Mac, Windows, and web apps — has hit general availability in 181 countries and 19 languages. The company’s answer to Slack is part of Office 365, meaning Microsoft Teams is for businesses only — there are no plans for a free or consumer version. Microsoft Teams […]
What if you could have a conversation with someone speaking in a different language, without being spoon fed individual words, whenever and wherever you want? This has long been the holy grail of language, and software has chased it for decades — with marginal success. Yet there’s new hope to be found in virtual reaility, […]
(Reuters) – With the broad release of Google Assistant last week, the voice-assistant wars are in full swing, with Apple, Amazon, Microsoft and now Google all offering electronic assistants to take your commands. Siri is the oldest of the bunch, and researchers including Oren Etzioni, chief executive officer of the Allen Institute for Artificial Intelligence […]
Google has always been the go-to place for online translation, but it looks like the company wants to take things to the next level. Last November, the company announced that it would use machine learning to improve the quality of translation offered by Google Translate. It began providing neural machine translation for nine languages, promising more to […]
It’s easy, even if there’s a catch Continue reading… Polygon – All
From “Nonstop Metropolis” by Rebecca Solnit and Joshua Jelly-Schapiro. Cartography: Molly Roy; Photographs: Mirissa Neff There are as many as 800 languages spoken in New York City, and nowhere in the world has more than Queens, according to the Endangered Language Alliance (ELA). You can see many of the languages in the map above, which is […]
