A US software designer plans to harness the brains of the world’s computer users to build a multilingual translation database. Brian McConnell believes it could provide a free way to translate the ...

Translation is that space where language, culture, history, politics, and incommensurable difference all collide and sometimes cohere to make sense. At a time of intensive globalization, when cultures ...

Artificial intelligence-powered translation is becoming an increasingly crowded category, with Google, Microsoft, Amazon and Facebook all working on their own services. But tech still isn’t a match ...

A new study co-authored by an MIT economist shows that improved translation software can significantly boost international trade online—a notable case of machine learning having a clear impact on ...

Today’s language translation apps are like self-driving cars: incredibly useful, promising, nearing maturity, and almost entirely powered by machines. It's astonishing that the technology even exists.

Software that translates one human language into another. Live translate programs are invaluable when traveling in a foreign land. People just have to speak in their native language, and the software ...

"You want to become a translator? But AI can do everything now, can't it?" Clarisse Beretta has lost count of how many times she has heard this kind of remark since she started at the European ...