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It's been a while... how have y'all been doing? Hope things are going great with you...

Here's a quick one... saw this on Times Online today:

Google Leaps Language Barrier with Translator Phone

"GOOGLE is developing software for the first phone capable of translating foreign languages almost instantly — like the Babel Fish in The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy.

By building on existing technologies in voice recognition and automatic translation, Google hopes to have a basic system ready within a couple of years. If it works, it could eventually transform communication among speakers of the world’s 6,000-plus languages."

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