Fridaygram: translation birthday, photos in trees, giants on streets
By Scott Knaster, Google
Developers Blog Editor
One of my favorite "living in the future" moments happens when I visit a webpage that’s not
written in English. As you probably know, when this happens, Chrome figures out which language
the page is using, and offers to translate it for me. That’s really cool. This week we
celebrated the
6th
anniversary of
Google
Translate’s statistical machine translation technology, which powers the Chrome
translation scenario and many others.
Google Translate now works across 64 different languages, with more added from time to time.
From modest beginnings, Google Translate
now
performs most of the translation work on Earth, translating one million books’ worth
of text every day.
When words are not enough, we turn to pictures. What makes the
LOOK3 Festival of the Photograph unusual
is that it
displays images high among
the trees in an outdoor mall in Charlottesville, Virginia. Also known as "three days
of peace, love and photography", this festival promotes environmental awareness and
conservation, and also just looks really awesome.
Finally, what’s more lifelike than words and pictures? How about
giant marionettes walking through the
streets of Liverpool to commemorate the 100th anniversary of the Titanic? There are plenty of
YouTube videos of the giants’
visit for you to enjoy.
Fridaygram posts are made for fun, not technical value. They have been designed for
your Friday and weekend enjoyment. Items that are interesting to us nerds are published in
these posts. By the way, today has been declared Passive
Voice Day 2012, so make sure that fun is had!
