Learn about Google Translate in Coffee with a Googler

Posted by Laurence Moroney, Developer Advocate

Over the past few months, we’ve been bringing you Coffee with a Googler, giving you a peek at people working on cool stuff that you might find inspirational and useful. Starting with this week’s episode, we’re going to accompany each video with a short post for more details, while also helping you make the most of the tech highlighted in the video.

This week we meet with MacDuff Hughes from the Google Translate team. Google Translate uses statistics based translation. By finding very large numbers of examples of translations from one language to another, it uses statistics to see how various phrases are treated, so it can make reasonable estimates at the correct phrases that are natural sounding in the target language. For common phrases, there are many candidate translations, so the engine converts them within the context of the passage that the phrase is in. Images can also be translated. When you point your mobile device at printed text and it will translate to the preferred for you.

Translate is adding languages all the time, and part of its mission is to serve languages that are less frequently used such as Gaelic, Welsh or Maori, in the same manner as the more commonly used ones, such as English, Spanish and French. To this end, Translate supports more than 90 languages. In the quest to constantly improve translation, the technology provides a way for the community to validate translations, and this is particularly used by less commonly used translations, effectively helping them to grow and thrive. It also enhances the machine translation by having people involved too.

You can learn more about Google Translate, and the translate app here.

Developers have a couple of options to use translate:

• The Free Website Translate plugin that you can add to your site and have translations available immediately.
• The Cloud-based Translate API that you can use to build apps or sites that have translation in them.

Watch the episode here:

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HTC One vs Apple iPhone 5s comparison part 2

The HTC One has received high praise in recent weeks, including the honors of smartphone of the year. For many, the One defines what a smartphone should be. It has a beautiful 4.7 inch 1080p display, elegant aluminum zero-gap build, loud and clear dual front facing boomsound speakers and user friendly Sense 5. The handset has dealt with stiff competition in recent months, with the iPhone 5s garnering a ton of hype.

Regardless, the One has stood on its own, as we delve into both handsets in part two of our two part comparison between the two handsets.

Check out more no nonsense tech at Technibility.com!

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Android 4 3 for HTC One now available for everyone

As previously promised here, the new Android Revolution HD based on Android 4.3 and HTC Sense 5.0 is ready for everyone to download.

HTC hasnt released yet the international (WWE) update for HTC One, so users with international version of HTC One (M7_UL) are still waiting for Android 4.3 to come. As a workaround, Android Revolution HD is based on recently released Android 4.3 OTA for HTC One "Developer Edition". By checking byte to byte its quite easy to notice that the software from international edition (401) and developer edition (1540) are almost the same. So instead of waiting for WWE OTA, Android Revolution HD 22.0 has been "WWE-ed", which means it works identically to WWE software. All WWE languages are included.

So, if you dont want to wait for WWE OTA update for your HTC One, please visit this thread and get the latest Android Revolution HD 22.0 with Android 4.3 and HTC Sense 5.0.

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Foursquare for Windows 8 now available in the Windows Store

At our Build developer conference at the end of June, Foursquare announced they were going to release an app for Windows 8. This marks the first official Foursquare app for large-screen devices, available exclusively on Windows 8. Here is what Dennis Crowley, Co-founder and CEO of Foursquare, said about the app:

"People want to experience and explore the world around them, and the Foursquare for Windows 8 app helps them do that. It makes it fun to search for a place for dinner or to go out, and helps people discover new experiences. We’ve worked with Microsoft on a bunch of initiatives over the years, and this product is another example of the great things we can do together."

Today, Foursquare for Windows 8 is now available in the Windows Store.  [Note: the app is propagating across the Windows Store servers, if this link doesn’t work keep checking!]
With Foursquare, you and your friends can make the most of where you are and where you’re going by checking in to the places you visit and sharing and saving your favorite places. Over 35 million people worldwide use Foursquare and have checked in over 4 billion check-ins. And there are millions more check-ins each day. With all this data from people checking in, sharing and saving their favorite places, as well as ratings and tips – Foursquare has become an incredible discovery engine for new places with personalized recommendations and deals based on where you, your friends, and people with similar tastes have been.

Foursquare for Windows 8 focuses on helping people discover new places and provides a rich and immersive experience.
Discovery is a huge part of why I am really excited about Foursquare for Windows 8. With Foursquare, I regularly find all kinds of new places to visit – whether it’s a new restaurant try or some new local attraction (such as a state park or museum).
So here’s a bit of a tour of Foursquare for Windows 8…

When you first log in to Foursquare for Windows 8, you’ll see your last check-in displayed right up front. It will also use your location to show you places of interest near-by.

You can swipe from the bottom or right-click to bring up the app commands – for quick access to your lists, friends, or to check-in to some place.

By navigating to the right in the app, you will see these places near you grouped by what’s trending (based on where people are right now), best-rated places (based on a ton of signals, like repeat check-ins, and likes) and other places that might be of interest.

If you navigate to your left in the app, you will see these places on an interactive map which can be filtered.

By bringing out the Search charm, you can search for a specific place or type of place.
NOTE: When looking at places, you see orange squares on a specific place that has a special offer.
And you can go even deeper on a specific place by tapping or clicking again.

When you are looking at a place – like the Space Needle – you get all the details you need such as address (which you can click or tap to open in the Maps app on Windows 8) as well as website, Twitter account, phone number and more. On the lower left just below the information I just mentioned is the rating for the place (in the case of the Space Needle, it’s a 9.4).

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Temple Run 2 Now Available

Temple run is one of the most addictive games on Android and iOS devices. It is one of the most downloaded games in the app store for these devices.
I for one love playing it and cant get enough of it.

Its still a very relevant game and most people havent gotten all the power ups and items in it.

However, a part two of this game titled Temple Run 2 have been released by Imangi Studios with even more fun and adventure. It is only available for iOS devices and Android devices will get theirs later.
Check out the images below
Temple Run 2 is free of charge and can be downloaded from here
Download and start running!

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