Daily Archives: May 13, 2011

Google’s Real-Life Babelfish Will Translate the World

Google’s Real-Life Babelfish Will Translate the World The tough thing about translation: You need someone who actually speaks both languages. Easy for Spanish to English, not so much for Swahili to Inuktitut. In the Plex by Steven Levy illustrates how … Continue reading

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It’s Official: This Is the New AIM

On Monday we reported on AIM’s kind-of-sort-of-secret new video chat site. As of today, it’s official, and it’s just the beginning of a new direction for the hoary chat service. We all use AIM. And yet we can also all … Continue reading

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X-Prize reveals plans for tricorder competition, suspiciously lacking Nimoy endorsement — Engadget

  We could feed you a line about the final frontier or exploring strange new worlds, but we’ll just give it to you straight: the X-Prize Foundation has teamed up with Qualcomm to design the Tricorder X-Prize, a $10 million … Continue reading

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Throwback Thursday: AT&T Wireless | BGR

  As you can see from the above image, the destruction and slow reconstruction of AT&T is quite a story. With the T-Mobile merger currently being debated by Congress, potentially adding another chapter to the saga, we thought it might … Continue reading

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