Listen to more stories on the Noa app. When Google Translate was released, in 2006, I was an eighth grader stumbling through introductory Spanish, and my teacher had little reason to worry about her ...

The search giant says it's made a "leap" in giving you more natural translations. It's just one step in a big push in machine learning that Google detailed Tuesday. Richard Nieva was a senior reporter ...

Today’s language translation apps are like self-driving cars: incredibly useful, promising, nearing maturity, and almost entirely powered by machines. It's astonishing that the technology even exists.