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Google’s Circle to Search can now translate as you scroll

techcrunch.com Aisha Malik 2025-10-10 15:33:39

Google is bringing improved translation to Circle to Search, its feature that allows users to quickly search for any information on their screen by using gestures like circling, highlighting, scribbling, or tapping. The company announced on Thursday that users can now see translations as they scroll. “Translation is one of the most-used features in Circle to Search — you can get more context for social posts from creators who speak a different language, or browse menus when you’re booking resta

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Samsung Galaxy devices get first dibs on powerful new Circle to Search feature

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-10-11 07:05:17

Rita El Khoury / Android Authority TL;DR Google has officially confirmed that Circle to Search’s new Scroll and Translate feature is rolling out this week. The update starts with select Samsung Galaxy phones and lets you translate text continuously as you scroll or switch apps. We were first to spot this feature earlier in beta builds, and some users also reported seeing it pop up before today’s launch. Google is giving Circle to Search a handy upgrade. You’ll now be able to continuously tra

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Understanding Transformers Using a Minimal Example

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-10-12 14:30:06

The internal mechanisms of Transformer Large Language models (LLMs), particularly the flow of information through the layers and the operation of the attention mechanism, can be challenging to follow due to the vast amount of numbers involved. We humans can hardly form a mental model. This article aims to make these workings tangible by providing visualizations of a Transformer's internal state. Utilizing a minimal dataset and a deliberately simplified model, it is possible to follow the model's

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Toronto’s network of pedestrian tunnels

news.ycombinator.com Samuel Hughes 2025-10-14 08:44:14

Toronto has one of the world’s great commercial downtowns. Two metro lines, eight suburban heavy railways, an extensive bus system, a highway, and North America’s greatest surviving tram network all converge on a tiny area by the shores of Lake Ontario. Hundreds of thousands of commuters pour into the downtown every day, filling the great towers that line its nineteenth-century streets. As with many downtowns, this causes congestion. Streets and pavements are thronged at peak times. Bicycles, p

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Rumor: AirPods Pro 3 features may not all arrive at launch

9to5mac.com Zac Hall 2025-10-16 07:17:48

While we expect Apple to unveil AirPods Pro 3 alongside iPhone 17 and Apple Watch Series 11 next week, there’s one new feature that may not be ready for showtime. An anonymous source claims in a tip to 9to5Mac that AirPods Pro 3 will indeed feature two health sensors. Heart rate sensing has long been rumored, and after appearing on Beats Powerbeats Pro 2, the feature addition has been a lock. The other health sensor, previously floated as a possibility, is said by the anonymous tipster to be

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Pig lung transplanted into a human

news.ycombinator.com Michelle Starr 2025-10-14 04:00:45

A genetically modified pig lung transplanted into a brain-dead human patient functioned for nine days in a new achievement that reveals both the promise and significant challenges of xenotransplantation. Over the course of the experiment, the patient showed increasing signs of organ rejection before scientists at the First Affiliated Hospital of Guangzhou Medical University in China terminated the experiment, allowing the recipient to pass away. It's the first time a pig lung has been transpla

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Pig Lung Transplanted into a Human in Major Scientific First: ScienceAlert

news.ycombinator.com Michelle Starr 2025-10-14 19:00:45

A genetically modified pig lung transplanted into a brain-dead human patient functioned for nine days in a new achievement that reveals both the promise and significant challenges of xenotransplantation. Over the course of the experiment, the patient showed increasing signs of organ rejection before scientists at the First Affiliated Hospital of Guangzhou Medical University in China terminated the experiment, allowing the recipient to pass away. It's the first time a pig lung has been transpla

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What Does will-change In CSS Do?

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-10-15 23:07:49

What Does will-change In CSS Actually Do? I've been using the will-change CSS property for a while now, but I realized I never understood exactly what it does. I knew it was some sort of performance optimization but that's pretty much it. will-change What is will-change? It's a hint to the browser, something along the lines of “hey, I’m about to animate these properties, please get ready.” Browsers may respond by promoting the element to its own GPU compositing layer, pre‑allocating memory,

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Massive TransUnion breach leaks personal data of 4.4 million customers - what to do now

zdnet.com Steven Vaughan-Nichols 2025-10-18 19:09:05

WhataWin/iStock/Getty Images Plus via Getty Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google. ZDNET's key takeaways At least 4.4 million people have had their personal information stolen. I recommend you freeze your credit with all three credit bureaus. You should also enroll in an identity theft protection and credit monitoring service. If it seems like hardly a day can go by without a major security breach, you're not wrong. Adidas, Farmers Insurance, Google, and numerous other compa

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Credit Bureau TransUnion Hit With Data Breach Affecting 4.4 Million People

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-10-20 14:29:00

The TransUnion data breach exposed the data of up to 4.4 million customers. CNET Major credit bureau TransUnion has suffered a data breach that exposed sensitive information belonging to 4.4 million customers, including names and Social Security numbers. The data breach took place on July 28, meaning the sensitive information could have been sold and distributed throughout the dark web already. TransUnion is notifying people who may have been affected that their information could be exposed an

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Google's AI Live Translation and Learning Tools Are Here. How to Use Them

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-10-20 19:25:49

Google Translate is getting an AI upgrade designed to make real-time conversations and language learning easier. The update is rolling out this week in the Translate app on iOS and Android. The first tool, for live translations, lets you have a back-and-forth conversation with someone by surfacing audio and text translations as you speak, so you can easily follow along. Advanced Gemini models allow for support of more than 70 languages, including Arabic, French, Hindi, Korean and Spanish. Googl

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TransUnion suffers data breach impacting over 4.4 million people

bleepingcomputer.com Unknown 2025-10-21 23:10:34

Consumer credit reporting giant TransUnion warns it suffered a data breach exposing the personal information of over 4.4 million people in the United States. TransUnion is one of the three major credit bureaus in the United States, alongside Equifax and Experian. It operates in 30 countries, employs 13,000 staff, and has an annual revenue of $3 billion. It collects and maintains credit information on over 1 billion consumers worldwide, with approximately 200 million of those based in the U.S.

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DJI's much smaller Mic 3 can record four subjects at once

engadget.com Unknown 2025-10-22 07:00:32

DJI's busy engineering team is at it again with the creation of the company's third wireless mic system in less than two years. The new flagship DJI Mic 3 has a wholesale design change from the Mic 2 plus numerous improvements in areas like sound quality, noise reduction and the number of subjects you can record at once — though there is one downgrade compared to to the last model. I've had one for over a week so I'll provide some impressions as well. The most noticeable change with the Mic 3 i

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TransUnion says hackers stole 4.4 million customers’ personal information

techcrunch.com Zack Whittaker 2025-10-22 07:04:57

Credit reporting giant TransUnion has disclosed a data breach affecting more than 4.4 million customers’ personal information. In a filing with Maine’s attorney general’s office on Thursday, TransUnion attributed the July 28 breach to unauthorized access of a third-party application storing customers’ personal data for its U.S. consumer support operations. TransUnion claimed “no credit information was accessed,” but provided no immediate evidence for its claim. The data breach notice did not s

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Apple Music Now Lets You Transfer Playlists From Spotify: Here's Why You May Want To

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-10-23 07:13:49

Apple Music app customers woke up to a new feature Tuesday, although not many know it exists yet. Apple Music subscribers can now grab songs or playlists from other music platforms, notably Spotify, and bring them to Apple. The ability to transfer music from other music services is buried in the Music App settings. Initially tested in Australia and New Zealand last year, this transfer option has now been rolled out to the US, UK, Brazil, Canada, France, Germany and several other countries. It's

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Google Translate is ready to replace Duolingo in your life

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-10-25 21:00:25

TL;DR Google Translate is getting a new mode to help teach you a new language. The beta initially supports teaching Spanish to English speakers, and English to speakers of Spanish, Portuguese, and French. Translate is also getting some upgrades to its live translation mode, all thanks to AI. For all the controversy surrounding AI when it comes to things like content generation, or hallucinating wildly incorrect facts when attempting to answer questions, most of us would agree that it works qu

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Google Translate's latest feature is its take on Duolingo

engadget.com Unknown 2025-10-26 02:00:35

Considering its popularity, Google Translate sure hasn't received much attention lately. However, that just changed with a big update. The latest app introduces AI-powered live translation along with new language learning tools that might give Duolingo a run for it's money. Google said it heard from users that the toughest skill to master was conversation — ie, learning to listen and speak with confidence. To that end, it's piloting a new language practice feature (on iOS or Android) targeted t

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Google can translate your voice in real time now - try it free

zdnet.com Sabrina Ortiz 2025-10-26 02:00:21

Getty Images/NurPhoto/Contributor Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google. ZDNET's key takeaways Google Translate now has a real-time translation feature. The app also offers a Duolingo-like language learning experience. Users in select countries can access both features for free in the Google Translate app. Google Translate has been a go-to source for people's translating needs for nearly two decades. While AI has been powering the tool since its inception, generative AI's ad

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Google is building a Duolingo rival into the Translate app

theverge.com Emma Roth 2025-10-26 02:00:00

is a news writer who covers the streaming wars, consumer tech, crypto, social media, and much more. Previously, she was a writer and editor at MUO. Posts from this author will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. Google is putting AI-powered language learning tools into its Translate app. The new feature, rolling out now in beta, can create customized language lessons based on your skill level and your purpose for picking up a new language, such as vacationing in another

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Google Translate takes on Duolingo with new language learning tools

techcrunch.com Aisha Malik 2025-10-26 02:00:00

Google is rolling out a new AI-powered experimental feature in Google Translate designed to help people practice and learn a new language, the company announced on Tuesday. Translate is also gaining new live capabilities to make it easier to communicate in real time with a person speaking a different language. The new language practice feature is designed for both beginners starting to learn conversational skills and advanced speakers looking to brush up on their vocabulary, the company says. T

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OpenAI Warns Against Investing in Its Stock

futurism.com Unknown 2025-10-26 14:09:55

OpenAI isn't a publicly-traded company — yet, at least — and as such, the company's express written consent is necessary for the sale or transfer of its equity. But that massive caveat has not, apparently, stopped sleazy operators from trying to rip would-be investors off with shady promises of buying into the red-hot artificial intelligence giant. In a new blog post, OpenAI warned that there are bad actors out there attempting to make "unauthorized opportunities to gain access" to the company

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Easily switch from Spotify to Apple Music in the US; Spotify DMs

9to5mac.com Ben Lovejoy 2025-10-26 17:37:50

Earlier this year, we saw an Apple Music tool intended to make it easier to switch from Spotify, and that tool is now available in more countries, including the US. But wait! Are you sure you really want to do that when Spotify has just rolled out its very latest feature? Direct messages … Spotify to Apple Music transfer tool First seen in beta last year, Apple started a slow roll out of the transfer tool this year, beginning with Australia and New Zealand. The feature has now come to the US

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In a First, a Human Breathed Using an Implanted Pig Lung

gizmodo.com Ed Cara 2025-10-28 02:40:28

The tantalizing potential of pig-to-human transplantation, or xenotransplantation, has reached another frontier. For the first time ever, scientists have transplanted a genetically edited pig lung into a living human body. Researchers in China reported the medical feat in a study published Monday in Nature Medicine. The gene-edited left lung survived for nine days inside a person declared to be brain dead. More work has to be done to ensure the long-term viability of these organs, the researche

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A short introduction to optimal transport and Wasserstein distance (2020)

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-10-26 14:15:03

A Short Introduction to Optimal Transport and Wasserstein Distance These notes provide a brief introduction to optimal transport theory, prioritizing intuition over mathematical rigor. A more rigorous presentation would require some additional background in measure theory. Other good introductory resources for optimal transport theory include: Why Optimal Transport Theory? A fundamental problem in statistics and machine learning is to come up with useful measures of “distance” between pairs o

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Scientists Propose a Smarter Way to Hunt for Alien Radio Signals

gizmodo.com George Dvorsky 2025-10-28 23:00:31

The search for extraterrestrial intelligence (SETI) has yet to detect alien technosignatures like radio waves, but the cosmos is vast, and there are plenty of places left to look. New research suggests refining our search parameters by using our own broadcasts into deep space as a helpful guide. Research published earlier this week in Astrophysical Journal Letters suggests we search for alien signals by studying how we beam strong, directed transmissions during two-way communication with our de

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Honor's Magic V5 Boasts On-Device Live AI Call Translation for Guaranteed Privacy

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-11-01 10:10:01

"Hola! ¿Hablas inglés?" I asked the woman who answered the phone in the Barcelona restaurant. I was calling in a futile attempt to make a reservation for the CNET team dinner during Mobile World Congress this year. Unfortunately, I don't know Spanish (I learned French and German at school). And as it turned out, she didn't speak English either. "No!" she said, and brusquely hung up. What I needed in that moment was the kind of AI call translation feature that's becoming increasingly prevalent

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Google’s Big Leap Forward for Real-Time Translations Is Deepfaking Your Voice

gizmodo.com James Pero 2025-11-02 23:15:57

I can’t count the number of times I’ve been promised the Next Big Thing in app-enabled translation. Since the dawn of Google Translate, it’s felt like tech companies (not just Google, but Samsung and Apple, too) have been teasing a future where speech can be translated instantaneously, allowing for near-seamless communication between people from *sarcastic SpongeBob voice* across the world. But the truth is, that future, however enticing on paper, hasn’t exactly panned out. As incredible as app

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Switching from iPhone to Pixel 10? It’ll soon be easier to transfer your eSIM (APK teardown)

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-11-04 08:00:04

TL;DR Google is bringing a new feature to transfer eSIM from iPhone to Android. The feature is expected to work both ways, allowing a seamless migration of profiles. It only works with devices running iOS 26, and is unlikely to work with iPhones running older firmware. Google just unveiled the Pixel 10 series officially. While the new phones bring some welcome improvements like Pixelsnap, a more efficient chipset, and a host of new AI features, there’s one grim change that could rile up folks

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Spotify Will Let You Create Transitions and Mix Playlists Like a DJ

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-11-07 00:30:00

Ever wished for smooth, on-point song transitions in your music streaming playlists customized to your liking? Spotify is rolling out a new beta feature for Premium subscribers globally that lets you add tailor-made transitions between songs, the company shared Tuesday. You can opt to play DJ -- and skip the AI version -- and curate how songs flow on an existing playlist or a new one. By clicking the Mix button, you can adjust the EQ, volume, fade and other effects. If you're looking to collabo

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Meta rolls out AI-powered translations to creators globally, starting with English and Spanish

techcrunch.com Sarah Perez 2025-11-07 02:20:01

Meta is rolling out an AI-powered voice translation feature to all users on Facebook and Instagram globally, the company announced on Tuesday. The new feature, which is available in any market where Meta AI is available, allows creators to translate content into other languages so it can be viewed by a broader audience. The feature was first announced at Meta’s Connect developer conference last year, where the company said it would pilot test automatic translations of creators’ voices in reels

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Google Translate is ready to replace Duolingo in your life

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Google can translate your voice in real time now - try it free

Google is building a Duolingo rival into the Translate app

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Spotify Will Let You Create Transitions and Mix Playlists Like a DJ

Meta rolls out AI-powered translations to creators globally, starting with English and Spanish

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