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Google has began weaving an automated language translation feature into its universal search service

Google adds translation to main search engine

Technology / Internet

created Dec 04, 2009 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (4) | comments 0

Google has began weaving an automated language translation feature into its universal search service.


RNA on the move

RNA on the move

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created Nov 26, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

In the fruit fly Drosophila, oskar mRNA, which is involved in defining the animal’s body axes, is produced in the nuclei of nurse cells neighbouring the oocyte, and must be transported to the oocyte and along ...


IBM Researchers Lower Language Barrier With Text Translator

Technology / Computer Sciences

created Nov 23, 2009 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (5) | comments 0

IBM Researchers are helping to break the language barrier with the advent of technology dubbed "n.Fluent" -- smart software that translates text between English and 11 other languages. IBM employees use it to instantaneously ...


Review: $99 WikiReader is a pocket encyclopedia (AP)

Review: $99 WikiReader is a pocket encyclopedia

Electronics / Consumer & Gadgets

created Oct 28, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (2) | comments 0

(AP) -- When I was a kid, my dad bought a copy of the Encyclopedia Britannica. It had 32 volumes and took up 4 feet in the book case. I loved to sit on the couch and flip through it, reading articles at random.


Internet set for change with non-English addresses (AP)

Internet set for change with non-English addresses

Technology / Internet

created Oct 26, 2009 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (7) | comments 31

(AP) -- The Internet is set to undergo one of the biggest changes in its four-decade history with the expected approval this week of international domain names - or addresses - that can be written in languages ...


Twitter co-founder Biz Stone is interviewed during the Twitter Conference LA in Los Angeles on September 2009.

Twitter plans French, German, Italian and Spanish sites

Technology / Internet

created Oct 11, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 1

Twitter, the fast-growing micro-blogging service, is seeking volunteer French, German, Italian, and Spanish translators to render its website into other languages.


CSI in a virtual world: New grant furthers NC State's work in forensic science

CSI in a virtual world: New grant furthers NC State's work in forensic science

Technology / Computer Sciences

created Oct 08, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Imagine using the same process that goes into building video games to help investigators solve real-world crimes. Through a new grant, that's what researchers at North Carolina State University plan to do. ...


Millions use Google's Gmail

Google gadget lets websites go multilingual

Technology / Internet

created Sep 30, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Google on Wednesday released free software that lets website operators automatically translate online pages into any of 51 languages.


Ein, Zwei, Molson Dry? Researcher says hand gesturing to count in foreign countries can be tricky

Other Sciences / Social Sciences

created Sep 29, 2009 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (4) | comments 1

If you are planning to do some Oktoberfesting in Germany, you may want to pay attention to how you order your beverages. The server is not giving you a three-for-the-price-of-two beer special; you're holding up the wrong ...


Lower lexical recall in bilingual kids no cause for alarm

Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry

created Sep 16, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 0

If your French Immersion student is scratching their tęte over not being able to think of the English word for sifflet or the French word for keyboard, a University of Alberta researcher has a sage piece of advice. Relax, ...


New insights into cardiac aging

Medicine & Health / Research

created Sep 14, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Investigators at Burnham Institute for Medical Research (Burnham) have found that the conserved protein d4eBP modulates cardiac aging in Drosophila (fruit flies). The team also found that d4eBP, which binds to the protein ...


A sign is displayed outside of the Google headquarters in Mountain View, California

Google adds Malay, Swahili others to automatic translation

Technology / Internet

created Aug 31, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Internet giant Google announced Monday it was adding nine more languages to Google Translate, its automatic translation program.


Google is adding translation program to Google Docs

Google adds translation program to Google Docs

Technology / Internet

created Aug 27, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Internet giant Google added automatic translation to Google Docs on Thursday allowing users to translate documents into 42 languages.


A man reads French economical newspaper La Tribune in front of the Palais Brongniart

French paper goes global, risks ridicule with translation

Technology / Internet

created Jul 10, 2009 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (5) | comments 5

A leading French business newspaper is launching a multi-lingual version of its website using automatic translation, dispensing with journalists but producing often comic results.


Internet giant Google has unveiled a Farsi translation service to help Iranians "communicate directly"

Google, Facebook launch Persian services

Technology / Internet

created Jun 19, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Internet giant Google has unveiled a Farsi translation service to help Iranians "communicate directly" to the world, while Facebook has launched a version of its site in Persian, they said Friday.