Fans of The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy will remember the Babel Fish. The Babel fish is small, yellow, leech-like – and probably the oddest thing in the universe. It feeds on brain wave energy, ...

Of all the things that Google announced today at its hardware event, the Pixel Buds seemed the most magical to me. That’s because these wireless earbuds can do real-time translation in 40 languages.

The Babel fish, from Douglas Adams' magnificent Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, is one of those concepts that sticks in your mind. Much like the fish itself, really; in the book, it's a small yellow ...

Ever stumble upon a site in another language–Mandarin, for instance–but leave disappointed because you can’t read the text? One option, of course, is to try an online “machine” translator like Bing ...