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Books & the Arts / A World Turned Upside Down Christopher Hill’s history from below. Christopher Hill’s Revolutions The radical life and work of the historian. Illustration by Joe Ciardiello. This article appears in the June 2025 issue. Christopher Hill was one of the most prolific and influential historians of the 20th century. He was also the product of two specific eras of political and social change: the Old Left’s communist and working-class movements of the 1930s and ’40s, and the New L
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In 1884 the anthropologist Franz Boas returned from Baffin Island with a discovery that would kick off decades of linguistic wrangling: by his count, the local Inuit language had four words for snow, suggesting a link between language and physical environment. A great game of telephone inflated the number until, in 1984, the New York Times published an editorial claiming the Inuit have “100 synonyms” for the frozen white stuff we lump under a single term. Boas’s observation had swelled to mythi
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In 1884 the anthropologist Franz Boas returned from Baffin Island with a discovery that would kick off decades of linguistic wrangling: by his count, the local Inuit language had four words for snow, suggesting a link between language and physical environment. A great game of telephone inflated the number until, in 1984, the New York Times published an editorial claiming the Inuit have “100 synonyms” for the frozen white stuff we lump under a single term. Boas’s observation had swelled to mythi
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Ask any non-native English speaker, and they’ll probably tell you that LLMs tend to perform much better in Shakespeare’s language than in their own Sometimes, the difference is subtle. Sometimes, not so much. Sometimes, it’s downright dangerous, as shown in this 2023 Carnegie Mellon study, which found that non-English inputs could more easily bypass safety filters. Now, Apple has co-authored a study proposing a new method that could close part of this gap. As Apple explains it: Current Large
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In the spring of 1940, F. Scott Fitzgerald was worried about “The Great Gatsby.” It had been fifteen years since the novel was published, and the author had little to show for it. “My God I am a forgotten man,” Fitzgerald wrote to his wife, Zelda. “Gatsby had to be taken out of the Modern Library because it didn’t sell, which was a blow.” Two months later, in a letter to Maxwell Perkins, his longtime editor at Scribner’s, Fitzgerald wondered whether a cheap paperback reprint might “keep Gatsby i
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vonn In the late 1980s, U.S. audiences met an odd musical group from Finland: the Leningrad Cowboys, stars of a deadpan-comic, not-quite-documentary, road-trip film called Leningrad Cowboys Go America. Once you got past the name, two other things made the Cowboys stand out–most immediately, their look. They sported black suits, white shirts, ties, and dark shades… but they were no Russo-Scandinavian Blues Brothers. Rather, their hair was pompadoured forward, to stiff points protruding about a
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vonn In the late 1980s, U.S. audiences met an odd musical group from Finland: the Leningrad Cowboys, stars of a deadpan-comic, not-quite-documentary, road-trip film called Leningrad Cowboys Go America. Once you got past the name, two other things made the Cowboys stand out–most immediately, their look. They sported black suits, white shirts, ties, and dark shades… but they were no Russo-Scandinavian Blues Brothers. Rather, their hair was pompadoured forward, to stiff points protruding about a
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Although tools that spot stereotypes in AI models already exist, the vast majority of them work only on models trained in English. They identify stereotypes in models trained in other languages by relying on machine translations from English, which can fail to recognize stereotypes found only within certain non-English languages, says Zeerak Talat, at the University of Edinburgh, who worked on the project. To get around these problematic generalizations, SHADES was built using 16 languages from
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In a nutshell: Subtitle use is on the rise, and Netflix is catering to the trend with a new viewing options. Up to this point, watching with subtitles on Netflix in the original language involved toggling the Subtitles for the Deaf and Hard of Hearing (SDH/CC) option. In addition to spoken dialogue, this setting also creates subtitles for audio cues like dramatic music swells and environmental noises, and also labels speaker names. The new option, which will first appear on new titles coming to
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If you got easily distracted by reading subtitles of noise descriptions, like "car engine revs up" or "crowd shouts," Netflix has a new subtitle option for you -- dialogue only. The streaming video company announced the change on Thursday. The new format drops subtitles for sound as well as the names of who's speaking, only showing the dialogue. Earlier this year, Netflix increased its prices and added an additional cost for family members that don't live in your household but are still on your
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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. Netflix is rolling out a new subtitle option that shows just spoken dialogue. Before this change, Netflix offered Subtitles for the Deaf and Hard of Hearing (SDH/CC), which show spoken dialogue along with speaker names and descriptions of sounds, such as “[phone buzzing]” or [dramatic music swells].” The new option drops these audio cues. It is cur
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Margaret Mitchell is a pioneer when it comes to testing generative AI tools for bias. She founded the Ethical AI team at Google, alongside another well-known researcher, Timnit Gebru, before they were later both fired from the company. She now works as the AI ethics leader at Hugging Face, a software startup focused on open source tools. We spoke about a new dataset she helped create to test how AI models continue perpetuating stereotypes. Unlike most bias-mitigation efforts that prioritize Eng
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Recent Edition William Caxton, Paris and Vienne and Blanchardyn and Eglantine Paris and Vienne, published in 1485, and Blanchardyn and Eglantine, published in 1489, are unique among the romances printed for English audiences by William Caxton, the printer responsible for many of the earliest print versions of major canonical works in England. The only independent tales of adventure that Caxton did not draw from the epic cycles of England, France, Greece, and Rome, these romances enjoyed widesp
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Tomasz Śmigla/Getty Images Programming is an increasingly global profession, and developer tools are finally catching up. On Wednesday, Amazon Web Services (AWS) announced new language supports in Q Developer, its coding assistant, to better serve its global user base. Amazon says the assistant can now deliver feedback accurately in multiple languages, creating a familiar work environment for developers of all backgrounds. For much of its history, software has been rooted in English -- a reali
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Region and language settings: Install Windows using these language settings: Windows display language: Arabic Brazilian Portuguese Bulgarian Chinese Simplified Chinese Traditional Croatian Czech Danish Dutch English English International Estonian Finnish French French Canadian German Greek Hebrew Hungarian Italian Japanese Korean Latvian Lithuanian Norwegian Polish Portuguese Romanian Russian Serbian Latin Slovak Slovenian Spanish Spanish (Mexico) Swedish Thai Turkish Ukrainian Windows features
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It’s been a little over three months since “Help me create” was introduced to Google Drive . The AI tool that helps you put together long-form documents is now getting an update that will make it accessible to more people. Today, Google announced that Help me create is gaining support for several new languages. When the feature launched back in December, it was only available in English. Now, in addition to English, the tool will support the following languages: Spanish Portuguese Japanese
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Apple on Monday released visionOS 2.4, and it’s the first update to enable Apple Intelligence features in Apple Vision Pro. However, even though the update was released on the same day as iOS 18.4 – which expands AI capabilities to more languages – Apple Intelligence for Vision Pro is only available in English. Apple Intelligence for Vision Pro is limited to US English In a note on Apple’s website, the company notes that the first set of Apple Intelligence features for Vision Pro is only avail
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On May 9, AMC Theatres will start showing a sci-fi movie that was shot in Swedish but will look like it was made in English instead. Watch the Skies, which was released in its home country as UFO Sweden, had undergone "visual dubbing" with the help of artificial intelligence. An AI company called Flawless used its technology to digitally alter the film's images, making the actors look like they were truly speaking in English. Notably, the original actors recorded their own dialogues in English i
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A few weeks ago, when I was at the digital rights conference RightsCon in Taiwan, I watched in real time as civil society organizations from around the world, including the US, grappled with the loss of one of the biggest funders of global digital rights work: the United States government. As I wrote in my dispatch, the Trump administration's shocking, rapid gutting of the US government (and its push into what some prominent political scientists call “competitive authoritarianism”) also affects
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Rita El Khoury / Android Authority Gemini is still far from perfect, but it’s slowly grown on me. Specifically, though, it’s the Live conversation mode that appeals to me the most because it’s everything I ever wanted from Google Assistant, and then some. I can talk to the AI, interrupt it, ask it to repeat, correct it, and ask for more details — all in a very natural and relaxed chat. But if you’re someone like me and you’re used to speaking three languages at the same time, often in the same
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AMC Theaters, always one to hop on the latest trend, is premiering a Swedish movie using a new form of AI-based dubbing that makes it appear as if the actors are speaking in English. Instead of merely replacing the voice tracks with ones recorded by actors in another language, the movie Watch the Skies will additionally see actors’ facial movements altered to make it appear as if they are speaking in English. The original actors in Watch the Skies voice the new English-language track, which is
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On May 9, AMC Theatres will start showing a sci-fi movie that was shot in Swedish but will look like it was made in English instead. Watch the Skies, which was released in its home country as UFO Sweden, had undergone "visual dubbing" with the help of artificial intelligence. An AI company called Flawless used its technology to digitally alter the film's images, making the actors look like they were truly speaking in English. Notably, the original actors recorded their own dialogues in English i
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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. Apple is planning to bring live translation to AirPods, according to a report from Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman. The feature, which will let users translate conversations in real time, will be “tied” to the forthcoming iOS 19, Gurman says. As noted by Gurman, the feature can help translate a conversation from, for example, Spanish to English by playing
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The US island that speaks Elizabethan English 2 hours ago Share Save Brian Carlton Share Save Alamy The island of Ocracoke in North Carolina is known for its distinct "Hoi Toider" brogue (Credit: Alamy) Native Americans, English sailors and pirates all came together on Ocracoke Island in North Carolina to create the only American dialect that is not identified as American. I'd never been called a "dingbatter" until I went to Ocracoke, North Carolina for the first time. I've spent a good part
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After a monthslong hiatus, the One Piece anime will be returning in April. Before that point, its English dub will make its own return and hit an impressive milestone. When the dub episodes start airing the first part of the “Egghead” arc on March 18, it’ll have caught up to its Japanese counterpart. For plenty of anime, English-dubbed episodes air weeks (usually four or more) after the Japanese version, which can help extend a show’s presence just a little longer between seasons. In One Piece’
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This is what we have to put up with in the software localisation industry. Sentences in all languages can be templated as easily as in English: {user} is in {location} etc. Words that are short in English are short in other languages too. For any text in any language, its translation into any other language is approximately as long as the original. For every lower-case character, there is exactly one (language-independent) upper-case character, and vice versa. The lower-case/upper-case dist
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We knew a new Witcher novel was coming—but now we know when, with great news for readers across the world. Andrzej Sapkowski‘s latest book in the long-running series, which has spawned a massively popular video-game series as well as a Netflix franchise, is getting a global release in September, meaning you won’t need to know Polish to dive into its pages. Unless George R.R. Martin shares some big news anytime soon (unlikely), this could well be the most high-profile fantasy book release of the
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After two years of waiting, Adult Swim has revealed when Cowboy Bebop creator Shinichirō Watanabe‘s hotly anticipated sci-fi anime series Lazarus will release, along with a new trailer: Watanabe and animation studio Mappa’s sci-fi series officially arrives April 5. Despite being a minute and 45-second trailer, Lazarus wastes no time setting up the cyberpunk premise of its story and establishing its jazzy-ass action-packed tone. Set in a not-so-far-off future of 2052, Lazarus takes place in a wo
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With the release of the first beta of iOS 18.4 last week, Apple has finally expanded the capabilities of Apple Intelligence to languages other than English. But one of the questions that non-English users had was “will Apple Intelligence work in multiple languages?” Read on as I detail the experience of using Apple’s AI features in two different languages. In short, yes, you can use Apple Intelligence in multiple languages. Although this may seem obvious when you think about other generative AI
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Netflix just released its latest bi-annual data dump, outlining all the most popular shows and movies from the second half of 2024. One interesting highlight in particular may help explain why Apple TV+ has been leaning so hard into global, non-English content recently. Netflix’s massive success is fueled by a global audience Netflix operates at a very different scale than Apple TV+, so it’s hard to make comparisons in terms of content popularity. But one key highlight from the latest Netflix
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