translation
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Palestinian Man Arrested After Facebook Auto-Translates ‘Good Morning’ As ‘Attack Them’
A Palestinian construction worker was arrested by Israeli police after Facebook incorrectly translated the text of one of his posts. Haaretz reports that the man uploaded a picture from his job at a construction site with the text “good morning” in Arabic. When officers used Facebook’s automatic translation service to read the post, the text…
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Watch The Time-Lapsed Launching Of America’s Newest Warship
Video: America’s largest military shipbuilding company, the Huntington Ingalls Industries’ Ingalls Shipbuilding division, launched the company’s 30th Arleigh Burke-class guided missile destroyer in early December.
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Google Translate Now Rewrites Foreign Signs Before Your Eyes
Google’s Translate app is already pretty neat, allowing your to snap photographs and have them converted into one of 36 languages. Now, though, you can point your camera at a sign or menu and see the translation in real time.
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How Google Has Turned Language Translation Into A Maths Problem
Language translation is a notoriously difficult task for humans, let alone computers. But in trying to solve that problem Google has stumbled across a clever trick, that involves treating them like maps — and it really, really works.