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The Next Smartphone Revolution: Say Hello To Your New Personal Assistants [Updated]

Forget the hardware--with upcoming turbo-boosts to software the smartphone is about to evolve into something new and paradigm-shifting. Again. READ»

YouTube Now Reads Your Lips for Automatic Captions, Kinda

Depending on your needs, and how you look on them, YouTube's embedded captions are either extremely useful, or an irritating extra that people abuse, distracting you from the video. The good thing is: Captions just got a whole lot ...READ»

Witness the Real-life (Beta) Version of Star Trek's Universal Translator

Sakhr Mobile develops an iPhone app for troops and diplomats that translates Arabic speech into English, and visa versa--and there's video of it, in action.READ»

Google Finds its Voice in a Voicemail-Email Mashup

The future of the phone gets a bit closer to reality today with the introduction of Google Voice. The key feature of Google Voice is that it recognizes the words in a voicemail message left for you, and can then email the transcript ...READ»