Some US researchers at Carnegie Mellon University -- who have clearly missed the basic gist of most traditional tellings of the Tower of Babel story -- are working on a nifty new technology for ...

The Tower of Babel translator is a prototype translation device that functions in a completely different fashion from existing translators. Rather than having users punch in words on a keypad and then ...

Why limit yourself to knowing only one language when you pretend to know many more? That’s what a bunch of U.S. scientists figured when they set about to create a “Tower Of Babel” translator. A series ...

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, ...

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 ...

In Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, a trilogy by Douglas Adams, different species communicate using the Babel fish, a leech-like creature that facilitates instantaneous universal translation. You ...