China's biggest carmaker Geely is launching a premium electric car brand it hopes will take on Tesla. The Chinese company, which owns Volvo and Lotus, announced its Zeekr brand on Tuesday to tap into China's demand for electric ...
Osaka's metro network has shut down its foreign language sites after users noticed some odd translations. Among the errors on its English page was the literal translation of Sakaisuji line as "Sakai muscle". Many Japanese business...
Translation apps are getting better, but they're still not perfect, particularly for minority languages. Can artificial intelligence and deep neural networks help iron out the glitches? During the World Cup in Russia this summer there was a dramati...
Salad Cream, one of the UK's most traditional condiments may be renamed Sandwich Cream, it has been reported. Its maker, Heinz, says that only 14% of those who buy the sauce use it on salads, with many more preferring to use it in sandwiches. A spo...
It was smoothie brand Innocent's first big breakthrough, and the three founders realised they had to do whatever it took to make it a success. Even if that meant a bit of subterfuge. This was back in 2000, and supermarket chain Waitrose had ...
Yet another department store chain has announced it will no longer sell Ivanka Trump's eponymous clothing and accessories line. On Thursday, Seattle-based Nordstrom said it would no longer carry the collection. Then on Friday, Dallas-based N...
RANCHO PALOS VERDES, California — Microsoft's new CEO, Satya Nadella, just steered the company into exciting and relatively uncharted territory: near real-time speech-to-speech translation. \\\\"It’s been a dream of humanity ever since ...
Accepting his Oscar for best actor, Matthew McConaughey thanked the Academy, his fellow nominees, his director and co-stars, his father, mother, God, even his future self, but it was while thanking his wife and three children, that his voice ...
By Edwin Chan and Supantha Mukherjee | Reuters – October 13, 2011 Apple CEO Tim Cook speaks at Apple headquarters in Cupertino, California October 4, 2011. REUTERS/Robert Galbraith ****** (...