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On Friday, Politico published an analysis by Paris-based journalist Claire Berlinski. At first, the article is about the rapid advances in recent years in accurate translation technology which is making important changes in how we communicate as she revealed in "The Surprising Reason Europe Came Together Against Putin." But near the end, its revelations about Twitter are transformed into just another rant against Elon Musk's takeover.

Attempts to access Google Translate’s old mainland China address are now redirected to the Hong Kong site. Bloomberg noted that the Hong Kong version of the site isn’t accessible on the mainland without a VPN, marking Google’s move as an effective shutdown of the service. Google did not immediately respond to Gizmodo’s request for comment, but the company did confirm with multiple outlets that it had discontinued the service in China “due to low usage.” TechCrunch, which initially reported on the news Friday, noted that the hubbub surrounding the upcoming National Congress of the Chinese Communist Party, which would mark...

I use Google Translate to communicate to my extended family in the Philippines ..

Google Translate, the tech giant’s translation app, listed “a police officer” as the primary definition of “demon.” The secondary definition of demon, according to the Masters of the Universe in Silicon Valley, is “an evil spirit or devil.” The web giant removed the definitions altogether after Breitbart News requested comment on the company’s strange definition. Users on reddit’s /r/Conspiracy subreddit were the first to recently notice that when the term “demon” was typed into Google’s Translate system, the first definition that the site returns is “a police officer.” Although the Internet giant removed the definitions after a Breitbart News request...

Google said Thursday it was tweaking its translation application with the goal of reducing gender bias. The move comes amid criticism that Google Translate often defaulted to masculine names when it converted text to another language. […] Up to now, the translate program provided only one translation for a query, often choosing the masculine word for terms like “doctor,” and the feminine word for “nurse,” for example. “Now you’ll get both a feminine and masculine translation for a single word — like ‘surgeon’ — when translating from English into French, Italian, Portuguese or Spanish,” [product manager James Kuczmarski] said. …

Mac McClelland, at right, met her husband, Nico Ansel, in Haiti in 2010. Their relationship developed largely through Google Translate. (Leon Alesi for The Washington Post) By Mac McClelland March 13 Mac McClelland is the author of “Irritable Hearts: A PTSD Love Story.” ‘You met, and then?” people say when they ask how my husband, Nico, and I got together. “And then,” Nico says, somewhat embarrassed: “Google Translate.” We met in 2010 at a hotel in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, where I was reporting on the aftermath of the devastating earthquake that year. He, a U.N. peacekeeper from France who spoke practically...