Get the whole page in your native language with a single button. Image: D. Griffin Jones/Cult of Mac If you stumble across a webpage or a link in a different language, you can instantly translate the ...

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We live in a multilingual world, which is represented in the billions of pages published on the web—but just because a website isn’t written in your native tongue doesn’t mean that you can’t read it.

Today’s language translation apps are like self-driving cars: incredibly useful, promising, nearing maturity, and almost entirely powered by machines. It's astonishing that the technology even exists.

Aim your phone camera at local text and an English translation will appear before your eyes.

David Nield is a technology journalist from Manchester in the U.K. who has been writing about gadgets and apps for more than 20 years. He has a bachelor's degree in English Literature from Durham ...

Google Translate could already translate Japanese text into English from a captured photo, but now the app skips a step, letting you point your camera at signs, menus and other things that might ...

If you have ever traveled through a foreign country armed with little more than Google Translate to communicate, you know how awkward it can be to use the app to ask a friendly local for directions to ...