Apple might add live language translation to AirPods this year - how that'll work

David Gewirtz/ZDNET As a fan of Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, I've always loved the episode Little Green Men, in which Quark, Rom, and Nog are accidentally transported back to 20th-century Earth. In one interesting scene, we learn that the Ferengi insert tiny universal translators into their large ears so they can converse with people in different languages. Though I'm not a Ferengi, I'm looking forward to a similar feature that reportedly will reach Apple AirPods later this year. Also: Apple reveals the secret to updating every AirPods model - and it's easier than you think In a Bloomberg story published Thursday, tech reporter Mark Gurman said that Apple plans to update its AirPods with a live translation feature that would let you hear other languages translated into your own. Citing information from "people with knowledge of the matter," Gurman said that the new feature will be tied to iOS 19 and arrive as part of an AirPods software upgrade due later this year. The latter comment ... Read full article.