Language
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A new, MIT-developed language has the potential to significantly streamline web development, taking the stack of technologies which make up a website and putting them all inside a single application that compiles all the required XML, JavaScript, SQL and CSS.
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San Francisco startup Learn Immersive has built a virtual reality platform that takes you on Virtual Field Trips to (3D scans of) real-world environments and helps you understand them in their native language.
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With over 2.4 million Mazda 2’s sold worldwide since 2002, expectations for the company’s small 5-door hatchback are high. Today the company unveiled its reworked 2016 Mazda 2 that not only features the new Kodo design influences but a range of engines including a 1.5 liter diesel SKYACTIV engine.
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Researchers at the Multimedia University in Malaysia have developed an app called the Intelligent Narrator to read out news articles in real-time. Supporting multiple languages, the app can automatically identify an online newspaper's language and read out the news in the same language.
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Researchers have developed a glove that teaches users Braille, all while focusing on unrelated activities. The wearable computer uses vibrating motors sewn into the knuckles, and was found to assist in developing motor skills in participants without focusing on the movement of their hands.
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Microsoft has moved to break down language barriers and make talking to our international friends even more convenient. The company has unveiled Skype Translator, an application for its chat software that translates speech between different languages in (almost) real time.
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The internet has connected the world in ways previously unimaginable. Coupled with ever more seamless translation tools, it provides the ability to communicate across borders. Now, a new instant messaging tool is looking to make communication for speakers of different languages even easier.
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LG HomeChat will allow users to issue commands and receive status updates from their smart appliances by texting them with simple, conversational language. According to the company, you will literally be able to ask your washer "What're you doing?" and it will respond just as a person would.
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Sydney-based Portuguese design duo Catarina Araujo and Sofia Santos, have devised a low-cost, practical necklace that uses Leap Motion to interpret sign language into written words. They have been selected for the second phase of the TEDx Youth competition.
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ScienceScientists at UC Berkley and the University of British Columbia have created a computer program which reconstructs “proto-languages."
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A new app will help you translate text messages that teenagers send to you.
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ScienceResearch from NTNU is attempting to recognize human speech more accurately by detecting how we use our vocal tract to produce sound.
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