Calling all Star Trek fans out there: The iPhone 3Gs has a universal translator — Jibbigo. Speak into your iPhone in any of the five supported languages, and the iPhone speaks the translation back.

Researchers at the University of British Columbia have developed a “universal translator” for quantum computers, allowing different systems to communicate over a network with virtually no noise. The ...

A technology straight out of science fiction is coming to your video calls, provided you're willing to pay for it. Since Star Trek debuted in 1966, the many iterations of the franchise have leaned on ...

Ever since the early days of Star Trek there has been a sci-dream of a Universal Translator that lets us all chat together, no matter our native tongue. That dream could become a reality with iOS 19 ...

UBC researchers are proposing a solution to a key hurdle in quantum networking: a device that can “translate” microwave to optical signals and vice versa. The technology could serve as a universal ...

AI can do this now, for the most part. The translation capabilities of Claude or GPT-4o are incredible, and they're hardly ever brought up. At least for major languages, they can translate with the ...

Star Trek’s Universal Translator can rest easy: Captain Kirk wouldn’t trade it for a pair of AirPods with Live Translation. But for people boldly going where they don’t speak the language, Apple’s ...

— -- Captain Kirk had the universal translator, Arthur Dent had the Babel fish — and the rest of us have smartphones. There's one major difference, though. Neither the universal translator nor ...