Fans of The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy will remember the Babel Fish. The Babel fish is small, yellow, leech-like – and probably the oddest thing in the universe. It feeds on brain wave energy, ...

When Skype announced its real-time translation program back in May, most of us seized on the sci-fi-ness off it all—Star Trek’s universal translator, Babel fish, etc. But the technology is very real, ...

Of all the things that Google announced today at its hardware event, the Pixel Buds seemed the most magical to me. That’s because these wireless earbuds can do real-time translation in 40 languages.

Ever stumble upon a site in another language–Mandarin, for instance–but leave disappointed because you can’t read the text? One option, of course, is to try an online “machine” translator like Bing ...

You know, for someone who ends up writing about emoji all the time, I don't actually use them that often. In fact, they're often a downright mystery to me — so it's a good thing that the Emoji ...

AltaVista (now owned by Yahoo) has had the Babel Fish translation service since the late nineties. The service, which is powered by a French company called Systran, takes bits of text and translates ...

Yahoo, the world’s second-largest search company, has added a translation service from AltaVista, called Babel Fish, to its portfolio of online services, AFX News Limited reports via Forbes.com. The ...

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 ...

Traveling abroad? Forget the foreign-language dictionary, the phrasebook, the interpreter -- just bring your iPhone and the amazing new Google Translate app, which instantly translates typed and ...