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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

— -- 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 ...

A technology straight out of science fiction is coming to your video calls, provided you're willing to pay for it. Since Star Trek debuted in 1966, the many iterations of the franchise have leaned on ...

Calling all Star Trek fans out there: The iPhone 3Gs has a universal translator — Jibbigo. Speak into your iPhone in any of the five supported languages, and the iPhone speaks the translation back.

Meta announced a new AI model for speech and text translations that seems to bring Star Trek's "universal translator" closer to reality. Readers of a certain age know that the Star Trek TV series in ...

In a nutshell: Meta is introducing another AI model for researchers and companies interested in language translation and related applications. The company, formerly known as Facebook, has developed ...

A universal translator akin to the Babel Fish from “The Hitchhiker’s Guide To The Galaxy” might soon be possible. It’s all thanks to Meta Platforms Inc.’s Fundamental Artificial Intelligence Research ...

Microsoft Research has shown off software that translates your spoken words into another language while preserving the accent, timbre, and intonation of your actual ...