• Our Favorite Android, iOS, and Windows Phone Apps of the Week

  Health tracking and data tracking. These seem to be the two big themes concerning our six favorite apps of the week. But all these apps take different approaches, whether focusing on any kind of athletes, calorie counting, digitizing your paper files or just simply keeping tabs on your day-to-day…

• Google's translation app will soon turn speech into text on the fly

  Converting unfamiliar speech to text in Google Translate is currently an awkward affair: you have to start a recording and wait until a moment after you're done to find out what the other person said. That's not exactly living up to the dream of a St...

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• Google will soon unveil a new system for real-time voice translation

  Last month, Microsoft's Skype  unveiled a program for real-time translation of human speech. Now, it seems we'll soon be seeing Google's version. Continue reading…

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• Philips hue heats up to fight smart bulb tide: Interview

  You could hardly walk five paces through the halls at CES 2015 without stumbling over a wireless light bulb. Connected lighting seems determined to be the point of entry to domestic home automation, and there are plenty - startups and larger - hoping to corner the market. Ironically, then, the…