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How Skype Translator Learns Language From Social Media
When Microsoft and Skype revealed Skype Translator in May, everyone displayed awe and wonder at a service that could finally traverse the language barrier. The premise was that the Skype Translator app would convert speech in real time allowing fluid conversation between speaking partners with different lingual tongues.
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Skype To Launch Star Trek-Style, Real-Time Language Translator
Microsoft just demoed an awesome new feature for Skype that will actually let you speak to people in other languages — in real-time — by doing all the translating dirty work for you.
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Skype Says It Can Support Holographic Video Calls
For decades, we’ve been waiting for oh-so-futuristic hologram technology to make the leap from Star Wars movies to our living rooms, and it hasn’t. But it sounds like it’s right around the corner after Skype announced that it had developed 3D video chat technology in the lab.
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Why The Hell Are The Xbox One’s Best New Features Behind A Paywall?
You don’t buy a Big Mac and pay extra for special sauce. You don’t buy an iPhone and pay extra for FaceTime. So why in the hell is Microsoft putting some of its most heavily promoted Xbox One features behind an idiotic Xbox Live Gold paywall? Because it can. But that doesn’t mean that it…