The long running Babel Fish website language translator feature on Yahoo is now no more. It has been quietly replaced with Microsoft's own Bing Translator system. For people who began using the World ...

When Skype announced its real-time translation program back in May, most of us seized on the sci-fi-ness off it all—Star Trek’s universal translator, Babel fish, etc. But the technology is very real, ...

Tucked away in the cavalcade of nonsense and borderline sexism that was the Galaxy S4 launch, Samsung announced a pretty cool feature in its latest flagship phone: built-in translation for nine ...

AltaVista (now owned by Yahoo) has had the Babel Fish translation service since the late nineties. The service, which is powered by a French company called Systran, takes bits of text and translates ...

Ever stumble upon a site in another language–Mandarin, for instance–but leave disappointed because you can’t read the text? One option, of course, is to try an online “machine” translator like Bing ...

Of all the things that Google announced today at its hardware event, the Pixel Buds seemed the most magical to me. That’s because these wireless earbuds can do real-time translation in 40 languages.

For all the successes of Google’s Website Translator, it’s easy to forget that the effort is still a major work in progress. The latest addition to the project allows website owners to customize the ...