We’re still about 150 years away from the invention of the universal translator by [Lt Cdr Sato] of the Enterprise NX-01, but [Dave] has something that’s almost as good: a speech recognition, ...

Imagine being able to turn up in any city anywhere in the world and speak freely with the locals. It was fiction as Star Trek’s Universal Translator, in the hands of Lieutenant Uhura, chief ...

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 ...

Lance Whitney is a freelance technology writer and trainer and a former IT professional. He's written for Time, CNET, PCMag, and several other publications. He's the author of two tech books--one on ...

Why do aliens in Star Trek all speak English? The answer is simple: They don’t, we just hear English because of an innocuous piece of sci-fi tech that pervades the entirety of Trek canon, the ...

Cinema critics keep raving about Arrival, a sci-fi drama by Denis Villeneuve focusing on one linguist’s attempts to decipher an alien language. Star Trek recently celebrated its 50th anniversary. As a ...

Get your news from a source that’s not owned and controlled by oligarchs. Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily. Star Trek’s universal translator is here, about 200 years early. Say hello to our new ...

Not including your local language, how many languages can you speak? Maybe one, possibly two? The majority of us cannot speak any secondary languages, while others speak many languages. This variety ...

The search giant offers a variety of tools for translating websites and text from one language to another. Here's how you can tap into Google when you need a decent translator. Lance Whitney is a ...