The computer scientists Rich Sutton and Andrew Barto have been recognized for a long track record of influential ideas with this year’s Turing Award, the most prestigious in the field. Sutton’s 2019 ...

Google is turning a long-promised sci‑fi idea into something you can actually use on the subway. Real-time speech translation is now streaming straight from your phone to your headphones, so you can ...

Google Translate now has a free Practice Mode powered by Gemini AI that helps you learn languages with listening and speaking exercises, vocabulary drills, and custom scenarios. Available in beta on ...

Google is preparing significant UI updates to the Translate app, changing things around to accommodate its upcoming AI-driven features better. We can spot a new translation results screen, with AI ...

What’s happened? After introducing a Duolingo-like language practice feature earlier this year, Google Translate is now rolling out another useful change that makes it easy for users to pick between ...

Google has released TranslateGemma, a set of open translation models based on the Gemma 3 architecture, offering 4B, 12B, and ...

David Nield is a technology journalist from Manchester in the U.K. who has been writing about gadgets and apps for more than 20 years. He has a bachelor's degree in English Literature from Durham ...