Lance Whitney is a freelance technology writer and trainer and a former IT professional. He's written for Time, CNET, PCMag, and several other publications. He's the author of two tech books--one on ...

In the sci-fi world crafted by Douglas Adams in “The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy,” you'd just slap a bright yellow Babel fish in your ear and simply be able to understand any mix of languages ...

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 ...

Contrary to what one might think, Google translate does not work by somehow parsing a text in the source language into its abstract meaning and then restituting that meaning in the target language.