Google Translate now uses Gemini AI to decode idioms like "raining cats and dogs," offering alternative phrases and explanations on Android and iOS in the US and India.

Chinese AI startup DeepSeek on Tuesday released a research paper and open-sourced its latest optical character recognition (OCR) model, DeepSeek-OCR 2, aiming to improve how machines interpret and ...

Unlock the full InfoQ experience by logging in! Stay updated with your favorite authors and topics, engage with content, and download exclusive resources. Cory Benfield discusses the evolution of ...

As a rare Irish-language translator, Timothy McKeon enjoyed steady work for European Union institutions for years. But the rise of artificial intelligence tools that can translate text and, ...

In context: Most modern games are designed for a global audience, often including English localization, a sharp contrast to older releases that remained Japan-only. Some hidden Japanese gems still ...

Wireless Smart Neurostimulation System records from 10× more brain sites than current adaptive implants; a large-animal study demonstrates chronic sensing, neural-state decoding, and programmable ...

A proposed Wisconsin bill would allow government agencies, including courts, to use AI for translation services instead of human translators. AI translation errors, such as mistaking pronouns, have ...

Does texting with your teen feel like communicating in code? My 15-year-old addresses me as Brosefina, Brotein Shake, Chef Broyardee, Brohemian Rhapsody, and Brah. Meanwhile, my third-grader is still ...

Machine translators have made it easier than ever to create error-plagued Wikipedia articles in obscure languages. What happens when AI models get trained on junk pages? When Kenneth Wehr started ...

Festo’s Eric Rice explains two commonly used concepts “(software-defined automation” and “function integration”) in simple terms before contextualizing how Festo applies these concepts. The goal of ...

(a) Left: encoding of blink information, the schematic indicates that the brain generates specific commands and stimulates the eyes to blink accordingly when a specific situation is encountered.

This illustration draws a parallel between quantum state tomography and natural language modeling. In quantum tomography, structured measurements yield probability outcomes that are aggregated to ...