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Google Translate now 'as good as a human' - could it save you on holiday?
Newspaper | Mirror
Date | 30.9.2016
Language | English
Country | UK
Topic Tags | artificial intelligence, Google, smartphone, translation
Summary | Google is using artificial intelligence in its Google translate app to make it better and claims that it as good as a human translator. The new version is supposed to cut down errors by 80%.
Image Description | Photograph of a smartphone displaying the Google logo next to a picture of a landscape, hand holding a smartphone taking a picture of "sortie" and displaying the "exit" on the screen, hand holding a smartphone next to vegetables and displaying the translation aubergine-melanzana.
Image Tags | Google, hand(s), smartphone
Smarter Übersetzer im Ohr statt Vokabeln pauken
(Smart translator in one's ear rather than studying vocab)
Newspaper | Welt
Date | 19.5.2016
Language | German
Country | Germany
Topic Tags | smartphone, translation
Summary | A new in-ear device is available that connects to a smartphone app in order to translate face-to-face conversations in real time. This product would make human translators redundant. So far, the app can translate into English, Spanish, French, and Italian and Slavic and East-Asian languages are scheduled to be next.
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Junge Revoluzzer
(Young revolutionaries)
Newspaper | Welt
Date | 1.7.2016
Language | German
Country | Germany
Topic Tags | computer programming, emojis, privacy, smartphone, youth
Summary | Older generations always complain about how the youth today is virtually tied to their smartphones and Computers and how they do not Show much interest for anything else. They have however developed fantastic programming skills and business ideas. The finalists of a start-up competition in Berlin have come up with various ideas: coffee mugs indicating the optimal drinking temperature with emojis, computer encryption software to protect one's privacy, and many other ideas.
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