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Using Computing Might, Google Improves Translation Tool. The message said Google was a favorite search engine, but the result read: “The sliced raw fish shoes it wishes.

Using Computing Might, Google Improves Translation Tool

Google green onion thing!” Mr. Brin said Google ought to be able to do better. Six years later, its free Google Translate service handles 52 languages, more than any similar system, and people use it hundreds of millions of times a week to translate Web pages and other text. Charles Arthur reports on augmented reality. As the players pause between ends in a match at Wimbledon, the TV screen suddenly overlays the court with a pattern of yellow and black dots - showing where the receiver has been returning the first and second serves.

Charles Arthur reports on augmented reality

As they walk back out, the overlay vanishes and they're back to play. As another wicket falls in the Ashes, a replay shows the flight of the ball, and how it was going to clip the off-stump before it was stopped by the batsman's leg. And in the US, TV viewers watching an American football match see a yellow line running across the field - the "first down line" that the attacking team must reach to retain possession. Except that it's invisible to the players on the field: it's added in the TV studios.

And this weekend's Open Championship golf will show the greens overlaid with contours, revealing the territory each putt must negotiate. Translation: Translate Entire Documents and PDF Files with Google.