In a paradox, Xfinity Mobile and YouTube TV launch | #PNWeekly 247

In this episode of our podcast, we also talk about Samsung's good and bad with the Galaxy S8 and Tizen as well as Russo-Canadian cellphone spies...

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Now On Tap update brings instant translation

Google Translate already can instantly translate your copy-paste material, but why not just make it a two-tap process? Forget all the highlighting, just  translate everything on the screen.Whenever you encounter something on your phone you want to translate, just make sure you can long-press to get to Now on Tap and you’ll get a new “Translate this Screen” option. Boom. Perfecto. If ...

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Google Translate for iOS gets offline, one tap away for Android

Google Translate gets a tiny bit more global and much easier to use.In celebration of its tenth year plus one week, the dev team have updated the app for both iOS and Android, this time adding Word Lens capability to translate Chinese characters you see through your camera’s viewfinder.On the Android side,

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Google Translate turns ten, supports 103 languages, serves over 500 million people

There’s no better way to celebrate a ten-year anniversary of a service as popular and ubiquitous as Google Translate than gloat about the many milestones achieved in the past decade. For instance, did you know over 100 billion words a day are translated through the desktop, Android and iOS app?That’s a lot of vocabulary processed every 24 hours, and in just a couple of years, Google Translate apparently surged from 200 million daily users to “more than 500 million” people served. Probably not all of them every single day, but half a billion is half a billion.Unsurprisingly, the ...

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Microsoft Translator Android app picks up image translation, more offline language packs

It’s probably only a matter of time until the EU goes after Google for anti-competitive practices regarding the search giant’s translation service in addition to the way actual search, web browsing and shopping apps are built into stock Android.But Microsoft is doing a pretty good job nurturing its own Translator for Windows Phone, iOS and Android, so

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Google Translate finally learns to translate text within other apps

Sometimes an idea doesn’t seem obvious until you hear it, and then you can’t imagine how it was never considered earlier. Take Google Translate for instance: over the years we’ve seen it evolve from translating user-entered text, to photos, to audio, to even working with live video captured from your phone’s camera. But throughout all these advancements, the app hasn’t been able to translate text in other apps living right there on your phone. Google’s come to finally ...

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Google Translate gains new real-time language support

Back around the start of the year, Google dropped a pretty exciting update to its already impressive Google Translate app, adding both a real-time dictated translation mode and one that worked with your phone’s video camera to instantly translate printed text – live as you filmed it. For as useful as the latter sounded, its implementation was a little limited initially, only supporting a handful of languages. While that was a good start, things are only getting better, and today Google ...

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