The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. Among the myriad abilities that humans possess, which ones are uniquely human? Language has been a top candidate at least since ...

Dr. Gruber is a marine biologist and the head of Project CETI. One afternoon in January 2024, off the island of Dominica in the Atlantic Ocean, a sperm whale named Pinchy and I drifted calmly at the ...

The U.S. peace plan presented to Ukraine appears to have been translated from Russian. The syntax of certain phrases are more common in the Russian language, such as the third point of the 28-point ...

There’s a paradox at the heart of modern AI: The kinds of sophisticated models that companies are using to get real work done and reduce head count aren’t the ones getting all the attention.

A Kenyan entrepreneur who designed an app that translates speech into sign language using AI-powered 3D avatars has won a major award for African innovation. “Think of it as Google Translate for sign ...

When we use words to communicate, we not only have to choose what to say, but also what not to say, and how to say it. How we decide to frame a message can influence how people think, feel, and ...

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 ...

Like many of the young people in her Indigenous Anishinaabe community in the upper peninsula of Michigan, Danielle Boyer grew up speaking only a little of her people’s native language, ...

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 ...

The app can now translate your conversations in real time, too. The app can now translate your conversations in real time, too. is a news writer who covers the streaming wars, consumer tech, crypto, ...