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I recently was doing a pentest and was continuously looking up translations for words, and thought “there has to be a better way…”. That is when I landed on BurpelFish, which adds a google translate context option to your BurpSuite’s right click. When … Continue reading How to configure BurpelFish
Article by Shiela Pulido
Due to our dependence on the internet for digital transformation, most people suffer from the risks of cyberattacks. It is an even greater concern this year due to the trend of remote working and international business ex… Continue reading The Role of Translation in Cyber Security and Data Privacy
Let’s be clear right up front: there are probably more obvious solutions to the problem of using a Russian calculator when you don’t speak Russian than printing new keys and engraving translated markings on them. But easy solutions are boring and generally considered beyond the scope of Hackaday articles, so …read more
Continue reading 3D-Printer and CNC Make This Russian Calculator Bilingual
How does a submarine talk to an airplane? It sounds like a bad joke but it’s actually a difficult engineering challenge.
Traditionally the submarine must surface or get shallow enough to deploy a communication buoy. That communication buoy uses the same type of radio technology as planes. But submarines often rely on acoustic transmissions via hydrophones which is fancy-talk for putting speakers and microphones in the water as transmitters and receivers. This is because water is no friend to radio signals, especially high frequencies. MIT is developing a system which bridges this watery gap and it relies on acoustic transmissions …read more
Continue reading Submarine to Plane: Can You Hear Me Now? The Hydrophone Radar Connection
Star Trek has its universal language translator and now researchers from Facebook Artificial Intelligence Research (FAIR) has developed a universal music translator. Much of it is based on Google’s WaveNet, a version of which was also used in the recently announced Google Duplex AI.
The inspiration for it came from the human ability to hear music played by any instrument and to then be able to whistle or hum it, thereby translating it from one instrument to another. This is something computers have had trouble doing well, until now. The researchers fed their translator a string quartet playing Haydn and …read more
A lot of what Microsoft is showing at its Build conference this week is squarely aimed at developers. But in the barrage of news about Azure, Visual Studio and .NET, the company also showed off a preview of a new add-in for PowerPoint that is aimed at everyday users. The Presentation Translator can automatically provide real-time translated subtitles or translate the text of their actual… Read More Continue reading Microsoft’s Presentation Translator translates presentations in real time
A London-based translation company is looking for someone to help it make sense of emoji. Continue reading This Job Could Be Yours If You Speak Fluent Emoji
“Rather than be defensive about the possibility of being replaced by a machine translator, I am aware of the remarkable feats of which machines are capable.” Continue reading Shitloads and Zingers: The Perils of Machine Translation
Smartling, the translation tech company, has acquired TechStars alumni Jargon on Crunchbase which makes tools for mobile developers who want to “localize” their apps for different international markets, and the devices and app stores that are relevant in each one.
New York-based Smartling is known for its “translation management system” software, and marketplace of… Read More Continue reading Smartling acquires Jargon to help mobile developers ready their apps for international markets