A Kenyan entrepreneur who designed an app that translates speech into sign language using AI-powered 3D avatars has won a major award for African innovation. “Think of it as Google Translate for sign ...

In 2005, Travis Oliphant was an information scientist working on medical and biological imaging at Brigham Young University in Provo, Utah, when he began work on NumPy, a library that has become a ...

Editor’s note (September 9th): This article has been updated. WHEN TECH folk talk about the lacklustre progress of large language models (LLMs), they often draw an analogy with smartphones. The early ...

Language is one of the few faculties that still seems to be uniquely human. Other animals, like chimpanzees and songbirds, have developed elaborate communication systems, but none appears to convey ...

If you've just downloaded the iOS 26 public beta on your iPhone, the first thing you'll notice is the new Liquid Glass design overhaul, which adopts translucent elements throughout the system ...

Nothing makes you feel old like being bamboozled by slang. Even the chapter titles of Adam Aleksic’s Algospeak: How social media is transforming the future of language have this effect. “Sticking Out ...

Google is testing placing a speaker icon next to the video snippets. The speaker icon includes a language label indicating what language the video is in. This was spotted by Frank Sandtmann who posted ...

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You decide. The Python Language Summit 2025 When Python’s best and brightest gathered in Pittsburgh this past May, they spoke of many things. This collection of blog posts offers a recap of topics ...

Liquid Glass is coming to iOS 26, iPadOS 26, macOS Tahoe 26, and more. Liquid Glass is coming to iOS 26, iPadOS 26, macOS Tahoe 26, and more. is a senior editor and author of Notepad, who has been ...